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Chevrier, Basilie; Soenens, Bart; Zimmermann, Grégoire; Skhirtladze, Nino; Van Petegem, Stijn – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2023
The Multidimensional Overprotective Parenting Scale (MOPS) is a 35-item questionnaire assessing two dimensions of parental overprotection. Given its substantial length, the present research presents the development and psychometric properties of a short version of the MOPS (S-MOPS). Four independent samples were used (Sample 1, N = 315 Swiss…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Parenting Styles, Test Construction, Parents
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van Zyl, Llewellyn E.; Klibert, Jeff; Shankland, Rebecca; See-To, Eric W. K.; Rothmann, Sebastiaan – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2022
Academic self-efficacy (ASE) refers to a student's global belief in his/her ability to master the various academic challenges at university and is an essential antecedent of wellbeing and performance. The five-item General Academic Self-Efficacy Scale (GASE) showed promise as a short and concise measure for overall ASE. However, of its validity…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Efficacy, Beliefs, Student Attitudes
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Van Elsen, Joris; Faddar, Jerich; Appels, Lies; De Maeyer, Sven; Vanhoof, Jan; Van Petegem, Peter – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2023
In order to support research on school effectiveness, there is a need for valid and reliable instruments to assess policymaking capacities of schools. Increasingly, policymaking is seen as a shared responsibility of the entire pedagogical team of a school. In this article, data were analysed from a sample of 1,696 (care) teachers coordinators and…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Questionnaires, School Effectiveness
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Sass, Wanda; Claes, Ellen; Pauw, Jelle Boeve-de; De Maeyer, Sven; Schelfhout, Wouter; Van Petegem, Peter; Isac, Maria Magdalena – Environmental Education Research, 2022
Based on the concept of action competence, the current study introduces an integrated framework of Professional Action Competence in Education for Sustainable Development (PACesd) described by three defining features: willingness, knowledge of pedagogical approaches, and self-efficacy. To validate this framework, we developed a questionnaire…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Teaching Methods, Environmental Education, Self Efficacy
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Sass, Wanda; Pauw, Jelle Boeve-de; Maeyer, Sven De; Petegem, Peter Van – Environmental Education Research, 2021
Action competence consists of the knowledge, willingness, and self-efficacy for contributing to a controversial issue such as sustainable development. As such, action competence in sustainable development (ACiSD) is a desired outcome of education for sustainable development (ESD). Still, the scarce instruments for measuring ACiSD that have been…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Sustainable Development, Early Adolescents
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Vangrieken, Katrien; Boon, Anne; Dochy, Filip; Kyndt, Eva – Frontline Learning Research, 2017
The current gap between traditional team research and research focusing on non-strict teams or groups such as teacher teams hampers boundary-crossing investigations of and theorising on teamwork and collaboration. The main aim of this study includes bridging this gap by proposing a continuum-based team concept, describing the distinction between…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Teacher Researchers, Teacher Collaboration, Questionnaires
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De Fruyt, Filip; De Clercq, Barbara; De Bolle, Marleen; Wille, Bart; Markon, Kristian; Krueger, Robert F. – Assessment, 2013
The relationships between two measures proposed to describe personality pathology, that is the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-3) and the Personality Inventory for "DSM"-5 (PID-5), are examined in an undergraduate sample (N = 240). The NEO inventories are general trait measures, also considered relevant to assess disordered…
Descriptors: Personality Measures, Personality Traits, Undergraduate Students, Personality Problems
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Jacobs, Karen; Struyf, Elke – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2013
Socioemotional guidance of students has recently become an integral part of education, however no instrument exists to measure integrated socioemotional guidance. This study therefore examines the factor structure and reliability of the Socioemotional Guidance Questionnaire. Psychometric properties of the Socioemotional Guidance Questionnaire and…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Guidance, Questionnaires
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Kerckaert, Stephanie; Vanderlinde, Ruben; van Braak, Johan – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2015
Nowadays, more and more authors are convinced that ICT (information and communication technology) in early childhood education provides multiple possibilities for young children. The current study, conducted in Flanders, aims to get a clearer picture of ICT use in Flemish preschools. For this purpose, a questionnaire was composed consisting of…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Influence of Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Influences
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De Bolle, Marleen; De Fruyt, Filip; Decuyper, Mieke – Assessment, 2010
Psychometric properties of the Dutch version of the Affect and Arousal Scales (AFARS) were inspected in a combined clinical and population sample (N = 1,215). The validity of the tripartite structure and the relations between Negative Affect, Positive Affect, and Physiological Hyperarousal (PH) were investigated for boys and girls, younger (8-11…
Descriptors: Psychopathology, Factor Analysis, Psychometrics, Indo European Languages
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Vanheule, Stijn; Desmet, Mattias; Groenvynck, Hans; Rosseel, Yves; Fontaine, Johnny – Assessment, 2008
The Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II) is a frequently used scale for measuring depressive severity. BDI-II data (404 clinical; 695 nonclinical adults) were analyzed by means of confirmatory factor analysis to test whether the factor structure model with a somatic-affective and cognitive component of depression, formulated by Beck and…
Descriptors: Adults, Foreign Countries, Models, Factor Structure
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Geurts, Hilde M.; Hartman, Catharina; Verte, Sylvie; Oosterlaan, Jaap; Roeyers, Herbert; Sergeant, Joseph A. – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2009
Background: A number of disorders are associated with pragmatic difficulties. Instruments that can make subdivisions within the larger construct of pragmatics could be important tools for disentangling profiles of pragmatic difficulty in different disorders. The deficits underlying the observed pragmatic difficulties may be different for different…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Construct Validity, Factor Structure, Clinical Diagnosis
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Schaufeli, Wilmar B.; Bakker, Arnold B.; Salanova, Marisa – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2006
This article reports on the development of a short questionnaire to measure work engagement--a positive work-related state of fulfillment that is characterized by vigor, dedication, and absorption. Data were collected in 10 different countries (N = 14,521), and results indicated that the original 17-item Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES) can be…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Burnout, Test Validity, Test Reliability