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Direct linkLeila Vahid; Nazanin Khorasani; Ahmad Sadeghi – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2024
This study aimed to investigate the reliability and validity of the Childhood Career Development Scale (CCDS) on a sample of 1018 Iranian elementary school students. The Confirmatory factor analysis revealed that the original eight-factor model was of a good fit. Measurement invariance analyses indicated equivalence across gender and grade. A…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Measures (Individuals), Career Development, Elementary School Students
Stead, Graham B.; Schultheiss, Donna E. Palladino – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2010
The purpose of this study was to provide evidence of the construct and concurrent validity of the Childhood Career Development Scale's (CCDS) scores among South African primary school children. Using a sample of 808 children in grades four through seven, evidence for the CCDS's construct validity was provided using confirmatory factor analysis,…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Construct Validity, Measures (Individuals), Factor Analysis
Halpin, Bruce M.; Ottinger, Donald R. – 1981
The Bialer Scale and the Nowicki-Strickland Scale were administered twice, 4 weeks apart, to 526 students in the third through sixth grade from four public schools in a rural, predominately white, midwestern community. The association of verbal ability and the reliabilities of the locus of control scales were assessed in view of evidence that the…
Descriptors: Correlation, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Locus of Control
Peer reviewedHerzberger, Sharon D.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1979
Investigates the psychometric properties of the Preschool and Primary Nowicki-Strickland Internal-External Control Scale (PPNS-IE). The test was administered to first, second and third graders. (CM)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Locus of Control, Predictive Measurement
Peer reviewedNowicki, Stephen – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1976
The present study attempted to identify the factor structure of the Children's Nowicki-Strickland Internal-External Control Scale by factor-analysis of the responses of 388 junior high, 389 high school and 449 elementary school students. (MS)
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Factor Analysis, High School Students
Download full textThompson, Bruce; And Others – 1989
The study reported in this paper investigated the structure of the health locus of control beliefs of elementary school children using second-order factor analysis and the measurement characteristics of the Multidimensional Health Locus of Control (MHLC) Scales. Changes of wording were made in 10 of the MHLC Scales items in order to improve the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Factor Analysis, Factor Structure, Grade 4
Peer reviewedConnell, James P. – Child Development, 1985
Describes a new 48-item self-report instrument, the Multidimensional Measure of Children's Perceptions of Control, which defines children's perceptions of control as understanding the locus of sufficient cause for success and failure. Three dimensions of third- through ninth-grade children's perceptions of control are assessed within three…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Comprehension, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education
