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Mercier, Kevin; Silverman, Stephen – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2014
Purpose: The purpose of this investigation was to develop an instrument that has scores that are valid and reliable for measuring students' attitudes toward fitness testing. Method: The method involved the following steps: (a) an elicitation study, (b) item development, (c) a pilot study, and (d) a validation study. The pilot study included 427…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Attitudes, Measurement Techniques, Program Validation
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Samuelstuen, Marit S.; Braten, Ivar; Valas, Harald – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2007
This study examined contextual effects in Norwegian 10th-grade students' reports on cognitive and metacognitive strategies when using the Cross-Curricular Competencies (CCC) instrument. The CCC was first administered as the final task in a long (three-hour) testing session in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Program for…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Metacognition, Student Evaluation, Cognitive Measurement
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Appleton, James J.; Christenson, Sandra L.; Kim, Dongjin; Reschly, Amy L. – Journal of School Psychology, 2006
A review of relevant literatures led to the construction of a self-report instrument designed to measure two subtypes of student engagement with school: cognitive and psychological engagement. The psychometric properties of this measure, the Student Engagement Instrument (SEI), were assessed based on responses of an ethnically and economically…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Student Participation, Measurement Techniques, Psychometrics