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Adamu, Gishua Garba; Dawha, Josphine Musa; Kamar, Tiamiyu Salihu – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
Mechanical Engineering Trade Skills Assessment Instrument (METSAI) is aimed at determining the extent to which students have acquired practical skills before graduation that will enable them get employment for sustainable job security in Yobe state. The study employed instrumentation research design. The populations of the study were 23 mechanical…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Test Construction, Program Validation, Skill Analysis
Karaguven, M. Hulya Unal – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2012
The current study evaluated the psychometric evidence of Turkish form of the Academic Motivation Scale. The scale was based on the tenets of self-determination theory. It was designed to assess an individual's academic motivation if intrinsically or extrinsically driven with 28 questions. University form of the scale was translated into Turkish…
Descriptors: Motivation, Measures (Individuals), Psychometrics, Correlation
Gaissmaier, Wolfgang; Schooler, Lael J.; Rieskamp, Jorg – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2006
Counterintuitively, Y. Kareev, I. Lieberman, and M. Lev (1997) found that a lower short-term memory capacity benefits performance on a correlation detection task. They assumed that people with low short-term memory capacity (low spans) perceived the correlations as more extreme because they relied on smaller samples, which are known to exaggerate…
Descriptors: Prediction, Short Term Memory, Correlation, Hypothesis Testing