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Yin, Hongbiao; Wang, Wenyan – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2016
Viewing student engagement as a multidimensional construct, this study explored the motivation and engagement of undergraduate students in China. A sample of 1131 students from 10 full-time universities in Beijing participated in a survey. The results showed that the Motivation and Engagement Scale for university/college students is a promising…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Motivation, Learner Engagement, Foreign Countries
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Zelenak, Michael S. – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2015
The purpose of this study was to investigate the four sources of self-efficacy in music performance and examine responses from the Music Performance Self-Efficacy Scale (MPSES). Participants (N = 290) were middle and high school music students from 10 schools in two regions of the United States. Questions included the following: (1) How much…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Secondary School Students, Music Education, Self Concept Measures
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Fujisawa, Keiko K.; Wadsworth, Sally J.; Kakihana, Shinichiro; Olson, Richard K.; DeFries, John C.; Byrne, Brian; Ando, Juko – Learning and Individual Differences, 2013
This first Japanese twin study of early literacy development investigated the extent to which genetic and environmental factors influence individual differences in prereading skills in 238 pairs of twins at 42 months of age. Twin pairs were individually tested on measures of phonological awareness, "kana" letter name/sound knowledge,…
Descriptors: Twins, Preschool Children, Emergent Literacy, Early Reading
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James, Mary; Pedder, David – Curriculum Journal, 2006
This article reports the findings of a survey of 558 teachers in England. It describes how conceptual and empirical insights from the literature informed the construction of questionnaire items to provide answers to questions about the way in which teachers value different classroom assessment practices and how congruent with these values they…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Values, Teacher Surveys
Millsap, Roger E. – 1986
A component analytic method for analyzing multivariate longitudinal data is presented that does not make strong assumptions about the structure of the data. Central to the method are the facts that components are derived as linear composites of the observed or manifest variables and that the components must provide an adequate representation of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Software, Cross Sectional Studies, Error of Measurement