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Chaidi, Thirachai; Damrongpanich, Sunthorapot – Educational Research and Reviews, 2016
The purposes of this study were to develop a model to measure the belief in Buddhism of junior high school students at Chiang Rai Buddhist Scripture School, and to determine construct validity of the model for measuring the belief in Buddhism by using Multitrait-Multimethod analysis. The samples were 590 junior high school students at Buddhist…
Descriptors: Buddhism, Beliefs, Attitude Measures, Multitrait Multimethod Techniques
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St-Onge, Myreille; Lemyre, Alexandre – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2018
The number of students with mental health disorders (MHDs) in postsecondary institutions is increasing. Teachers' attitudes are among the main factors that influence these students' academic success. Unfortunately, their attitudes are little studied, in part because of lack of validated scales. Therefore, this article has two purposes: (1) analyse…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Mental Disorders
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Rubie-Davies, Christine; Asil, Mustafa; Teo, Timothy – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2016
The class climate is acknowledged as being related to student learning. Students learn more in classrooms that are supportive and caring. However, there are few class climate instruments at the elementary school level. The aim of the current study was to assess the measurement invariance of a recently developed scale in a different context (New…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Classroom Environment, Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes
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Nishimura, Trisha Sugita; Busse, Randy T. – International Journal of Special Education, 2015
General and special education teachers (N = 125) completed the Scale of Teachers' Attitudes towards Inclusive Classrooms (STATIC). The internal consistency of the instrument was strong with an alpha of 0.89. The measure demonstrated excellent test-retest reliability (r = 0.99) and a dependent t-test was non-significant, indicating mean group…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Inclusion, Factor Analysis, Program Validation
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Stack, Maria H.; Moorefield-Lang, Heather; Barksdale, Mary Alice – Reading Psychology, 2015
In order to promote voluntary reading in elementary school, students need to have access to books they want to read, to believe they can read, and to be in an environment conducive to reading. The purpose of this study was to develop and validate an instrument intended to measure students' perceptions in these areas. An exploratory factor analysis…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Access to Education, Access to Information, Beliefs
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Huang, Yun-Chen; Lin, Shu-Hui – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2015
This study aimed to develop and validate the Attitude Toward Calculus Inventory (ATCI). Results from three studies are reported that establish the reliability and validity of this instrument. An examination of the factor structure confirms that student attitudes can be explained in terms of four factors: self-confidence, value, enjoyment, and…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Attitude Measures, Program Validation, Psychometrics