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Ferrari-Bridgers, Franca – International Journal of Listening, 2023
While many tools exist to assess student content knowledge, there are few that assess whether students display the critical listening skills necessary to interpret the quality of a speaker's message at the college level. The following research provides preliminary evidence for the internal consistency and factor structure of a tool, the…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Test Validity, Community College Students, Test Reliability
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Maulana, Ridwan; Smale-Jacobse, Annemieke; Helms-Lorenz, Michelle; Chun, Seyeoung; Lee, Okhwa – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2020
Differentiated instruction is considered to be an important teaching quality domain to address the needs of individual students in daily classroom practices. However, little is known about whether differentiated instruction is empirically distinguishable from other teaching quality domains in different national contexts. Additionally, little is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Individualized Instruction, Teacher Effectiveness, Cross Cultural Studies
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Kozan, Kadir – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
The purpose of the present small-scale study was to investigate the factor structure of an adapted, 13-item subjective English cognitive load scale in a fully online learning context. To serve this purpose, adult online learners enrolled in a fully online graduate program completed the adapted English cognitive load scale at the end of an…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Test Validity, Difficulty Level, Cognitive Processes
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Mehren, Rainer; Rempfler, Armin; Buchholz, Janine; Hartig, Johannes; Ulrich-Riedhammer, Eva M. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2018
Constituting a metacognitive strategy, system competence or systems thinking can only assume its assigned key function as a basic concept for the school subject of geography in Germany after a theoretical and empirical foundation has been established. A measurement instrument is required which is suitable both for supporting students and for the…
Descriptors: Models, Metacognition, Competence, Geography
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Bolkan, San – Communication Education, 2017
This study was conducted to create a reliable and valid low- to medium-inference, multidimensional measure of instructor clarity from seminal work across several academic fields. Five hundred and sixty six students responded to an initial pool of 87 items and were split into two samples to investigate the factor structure of the new measurement…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Measures (Individuals), Factor Structure
Li, Dan; Benton, Stephen L.; Brown, Ron; Sullivan, Patricia; Ryalls, Kenneth R. – IDEA Center, Inc., 2016
This report describes statistical analyses performed on data collected in the Spring of 2015 from the pilot study of proposed revised and new items in the IDEA Student Ratings of Instruction (SRI) system. Described are the methods employed, results obtained, and decisions made in selecting items for the updated instruments. The procedures occurred…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Rating Scales, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Course Evaluation
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Rozencwajg, Paulette – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2003
The aim of this study on 42 seventh graders (ages 12-13) was to determine whether and to what extent students' metacognitive level is inked to their conceptualization and performance in problem solving at school, especially science problems. This hypothesis is supported by a number of studies showing that metacognition is a factor in learning. Two…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Intelligence Tests, Problem Solving, Metacognition
Hetrick, Suzanne H.; And Others – 1966
To study the relationships among figural creativity, intelligence, and personality, 196 fourth, fifth, and sixth grade boys and girls were given a battery of 14 tests. Teacher ratings of creativity and independence, grade point averages, art grades, and IQ scores were also obtained. It was hypothesized that a unitary trait of…
Descriptors: Correlation, Creativity, Creativity Research, Difficulty Level
Ohara, Takeshi; Purcell, Thomas D. – 1980
The relationship between student reported achievements (SRA) and student ratings of their corresponding course and teacher was investigated, from responses to the Instructor and Course Evaluation Questionnaire. The SRA consisted of 10 commonly accepted concepts of cognitive and individual development; their average was used as a measure of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Environment, College Science, Correlation
Smith, Janice P.; Brown, T. J. – 1976
To explore the potential relationships among general attitude toward school, evaluative ratings of courses and instructors, and selected respondent characteristics, an attitude inventory, and, for each class, a course and instructor rating scale, with items which emphasized the nature of student-teacher interaction and level of course difficulty,…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Correlation, Course Evaluation, Difficulty Level