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Career Interests of Students in Psychology Specialties Degrees: Psychometric Evidence and Correlations with the RIASEC Dimensions
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Ferreira, Aristides I.; Rodrigues, Rosa I.; da Costa Ferreira, Paula – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2016
In this study, we present the development of a vocational interest scale for university students studying psychology. Three dimensions were extracted through principal component analysis, namely, organizational, educational, and clinical psychology. A second study with confirmatory factor analysis replicated the same three factors obtained in the…
Descriptors: Vocational Interests, Student Interests, Psychology, College Students
Testing the Cultural Differences of School Characteristics with Measurement Invariance
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Demir, Ergül – Journal of Education and Learning, 2016
In this study, it was aimed to model the school characteristics in multivariate structure, and according to this model, aimed to test the invariance of this model across five randomly selected countries and economies from PISA 2012 sample. It is thought that significant differences across group in the context of school characteristics have the…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Institutional Characteristics, Measurement, Multivariate Analysis
Factor Analysis via Components Analysis
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Bentler, Peter M.; de Leeuw, Jan – Psychometrika, 2011
When the factor analysis model holds, component loadings are linear combinations of factor loadings, and vice versa. This interrelation permits us to define new optimization criteria and estimation methods for exploratory factor analysis. Although this article is primarily conceptual in nature, an illustrative example and a small simulation show…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Models, Computation, Methods
Development and Validation of the Game Perception Scale (GPS)
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Vandercruysse, Sylke; Vandewaetere, Mieke; Maertens, Marie; ter Vrugte, Judith; Wouters, Pieter; de Jong, Ton; van Oostendorp, Herre; Elen, Jan – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2015
Despite the pervasiveness of perception and considerable impact of perception on the use of ICT for educational purposes, there is a surprising paucity of perception assessment instruments. The present proposal expands on this through the development and initial validation of the Game Perception Scale (GPS). Based on perception literature,…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Rating Scales, Student Attitudes, Perception Tests
Teachers' Self-Efficacy vs. Parental Involvement: Prediction and Implementation
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Fisher, Yael; Kostelitz, Yifat – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2015
This research examines the influence of teachers' views regarding parental involvement on their perception of self-efficacy. Data were collected from a sample of 319 Israeli elementary schools teachers. A path analysis procedure was employed to test the mediating effect of personal background and organizational variables and perceived parental…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Self Efficacy, Parent Participation
Rasch Rating Scale Modeling of Data from the Standardized Letter of Recommendation. Research Report. ETS RR-06-33
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Kim, Sooyeon; Kyllonen, Patrick C. – ETS Research Report Series, 2006
The Standardized Letter of Recommendation (SLR), a 28-item form, was created by ETS to supplement the qualitative rating of graduate school applicants' nonacademic qualities with a quantitative approach. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the following psychometric properties of the SLR using the Rasch rating-scale model: dimensionality,…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Rating Scales, Data Analysis, Models