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Adriana Wiegerová; Peter Gavora – Journal of School Administration Research and Development, 2025
Organizational climate refers to the shared perceptions of behavior, the work environment, and daily life within an organization. This study is based on the assumption that, due to their differing roles and responsibilities in preschools, teachers and principals have significantly different perceptions of the organizational climate. The sample…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Preschool Teachers
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Pere J. Ferrando; David Navarro-González; Fabia Morales-Vives – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2025
The problem of local item dependencies (LIDs) is very common in personality and attitude measures, particularly in those that measure narrow-bandwidth dimensions. At the structural level, these dependencies can be modeled by using extended factor analytic (FA) solutions that include correlated residuals. However, the effects that LIDs have on the…
Descriptors: Scores, Accuracy, Evaluation Methods, Factor Analysis
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Justin Harris – Language Teaching Research, 2025
This article outlines the development of a 16-item instrument for measuring language learner's foreign language self-efficacy (SE) concerning their speaking and listening skills through repeated administrations to groups of Japanese tertiary students. Responses were analysed through the Rasch model, which allows researchers to investigate…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Questionnaires, Item Analysis, Second Language Learning
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Helta Anggia; Anita Habók – Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science, 2024
This study examined the factors adapted from the Motivation for Reading Questionnaire. We considered eight dimensions (Self-Efficacy, Reading Challenge, Reading Curiosity, Reading Involvement, Importance of Reading, Recognition for Reading, Reading for Grades, and Social Reasons for Reading). In addition, we included some items based on the…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Reading Habits, Questionnaires, Correlation
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Maartensson, Hanna; Loi, Natasha M. – Environmental Education Research, 2022
Climate change is a global issue affecting individuals, industries, and economies around the world. Many individuals know the risks of climate change and are willing to change their behaviour, but still contribute to high levels of greenhouse gas emissions. This discrepancy between willingness and action has been described as the…
Descriptors: Correlation, Risk, Psychological Patterns, Conservation (Environment)
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González Mendoza, Julio Alfonso; Rodríguez-Isidro, Francisco Esteban; Cañizares-Arévalo, Jorge de Jesús – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2022
When mentioning different actions that lead to the implementation of strategic planning in the use of ICT for achieving educational quality in the UFPS, it should become a concretion of the practical participation of these entities to try to achieve quality standards in education. In this sense, when it is intended to generate actions that lead to…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Educational Quality, Strategic Planning, Educational Improvement
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Orcasitas-Vicandi, María; Leonet, Oihana – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2022
This paper focuses on teaching techniques for language learning as related to student satisfaction on multilingual compulsory education in the Basque Autonomous Community (BAC), where Basque and Spanish are official languages and English is taught as a foreign language. Using a multilingual approach, the paper discusses similarities and…
Descriptors: Learning Experience, Student Attitudes, Languages, English (Second Language)
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de Mendonça Filho, Euclides José; da Silva, Mônia Aparecida; Koziol, Natalie; Hawley, Leslie; Bandeira, Denise Ruschel – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2022
Substantial evidence endorses the early assessment of cognitive development to promote children's developmental health and well-being. Especially in the Brazilian context, there is a paucity of standardized screening and assessment tools with normative data to evaluate young children. This study provided initial reliability and validity evidence…
Descriptors: Mother Attitudes, Cognitive Development, Item Analysis, Reliability
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Mullins, L. Aaron – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2019
Self-efficacy is one's belief in one's capacity to organize and execute a course of action and serves as a motivating factor, since people tend to seek opportunities in areas where they feel efficacious and avoid areas where they believe they might fail (Bandura, 1997). Furthermore, as language learners' feelings of efficacy increase, so does the…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Reading Comprehension
Saad, Mourad Ali Eissa; Kamel, Omaima Mostafa – International Journal of Psycho-Educational Sciences, 2020
The purpose of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (Garnefski, Kraaij et al., 2002), using a sample of adolescents from Egypt, aged 13, 14 and 15 years. The results indicate that the nine-factor model was successful, obtaining adequate fit indexes: X[superscript 2], df=381.3,…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Goodness of Fit, Self Control, Factor Structure
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Ghadyani, Fariba; Tahririan, Mohammad Hassan; Afzali, Katayoon – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2022
There is a dearth of research on hope in studies of second or foreign (L2) language learning. Therefore, the present research contributes conceptually to a deep understanding of hope for learning English as a foreign language and the ways it may be developed. To do so, an exploratory mixed-methods design was employed. Using in-depth interviews,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Psychological Patterns
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Schat, Esther; van der Knaap, Ewout; de Graaff, Rick – Intercultural Communication Education, 2021
Intercultural competence is a crucial element of foreign language education, yet the multifaceted nature of this construct makes it inherently difficult to assess. Although several tools for evaluating intercultural competence currently exist, research on their use in secondary school settings is scarce. This study reports on the development and…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Davidson, Troy; Guénette, Danielle; Simard, Daphnée – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2016
According to Dörnyei's model of second language (L2) motivation, the motivated learner aims to incorporate the L2 into his or her self-concept, known as the ideal L2 self. This study examined the internal consistency of Dörnyei's model among ESL Francophone students in Quebec (n = 68) by means of a questionnaire. Correlations were calculated…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Item Analysis, Motivation
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Tapsir, Ruzela; Nik Pa, Nik Azis; Zamri, Sharifah Norul Akmar Bt Syed – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Sciences, 2018
Values in mathematics classroom is not commonly discussed, researched, implemented, and measured although value is a significant affective aspect of mathematics learning. In this article, it is proposed that an instrument is developed to measure the said values which will benefit the teaching and learning mathematics. Discussion will focus on the…
Descriptors: Test Reliability, Measurement Techniques, Mathematics Instruction, Item Analysis
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Nelson, Helen J.; Kendall, Garth E.; Burns, Sharyn K.; Schonert-Reichl, Kimberly A. – Journal of School Nursing, 2017
Bullying in schools is a major health concern throughout the world, contributing to poor educational and mental health outcomes. School nurses are well placed to facilitate the implementation and evaluation of bullying prevention strategies. To evaluate the effect of such strategies, it is necessary to measure children's behavior over time. This…
Descriptors: Measurement Techniques, Aggression, Bullying, Child Behavior
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