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Mansooreh Hosseinnia; Zahra Kafi – Language Testing in Asia, 2024
As testing involves various aspects of education as well as the ones who are involved like instructors, students, managers, teacher trainers, testers, and decision-makers, it comes to be highly crucial to develop ethical tests. In addition, as some methods of testing are more favored and practiced compared to others without considering the ethical…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Ethics, Testing
Kokou A. Atitsogbe; Jean-Luc Bernaud – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2024
This manuscript aimed to develop an instrument assessing vocational values among students (VVS-S). The scale was developed in French using three different samples of Togolese participants for item development (N = 140), exploratory (N = 308) and confirmatory analyses (N = 300). It consists of 17 items divided into the five subscales of Power,…
Descriptors: Vocational Interests, Values, Measures (Individuals), Test Construction
Weideman, Albert – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2022
This paper will deal, firstly, with the South African context, that cries out for attention to responsible language assessment. The renewed interest in language testing in South Africa is well illustrated in assessments of language ability for educational purposes generally, and more specifically in the assessment of academic literacy. Secondly,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Tests, Testing, Academic Language
Esomonu, Nkechi Patricia-Mary; Okeaba, James Uzoma – European Journal of Educational Research, 2016
The study developed and standardized an Inventory for measuring Students' Integration into University Academic Culture named Inventory for Students' Integration into University Academic Culture (ISIUAC). The increase in dropout rates, substance use, cultism and other deviant behaviours in Nigerian universities makes it necessary for one to ask the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Measures (Individuals), Test Construction
Li, Mang; Zheng, Chunping; Liang, Jyh-Chong; Zhang, Yun; Tsai, Chin-Chung – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2018
This study explored the structural relationships among secondary school students' conceptions, self-regulation, and strategies of learning science in mainland China. Three questionnaires, namely conceptions of learning science (COLS), self-regulation of learning science (SROLS), and strategies of learning science (SLS) were developed for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Science, Science Instruction, Student Attitudes
Chang, Mei; Paulson, Sharon E.; Finch, W. Holmes; Mcintosh, David E.; Rothlisberg, Barbara A. – Psychology in the Schools, 2014
This study examined the underlying constructs measured by the Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Cognitive Abilities, Third Edition (WJ-III COG) and the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales, Fifth Edition (SB5), based on the Cattell-Horn-Carrol (CHC) theory of cognitive abilities. This study reports the results of the first joint confirmatory factor analysis…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Intelligence Tests, Preschool Children, Maximum Likelihood Statistics
Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest, 2019
These are the appendixes for the report "Children's Knowledge and Skills at Kindergarten Entry in Illinois: Results from the First Statewide Administration of the Kindergarten Individual Development Survey." At least half of states administer or are developing kindergarten entry assessments. In fall 2017 the Illinois State Board of…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, School Readiness, Public Schools, Test Validity
Orchard, Carole A.; King, Gillian A.; Khalili, Hossein; Bezzina, Mary Beth – Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 2012
Introduction: Many health professionals believe they practice collaboratively. Providing insight into their actual level of collaboration requires a means to assess practice within health settings. This chapter reports on the development, testing, and refinement process for the Assessment of Interprofessional Team Collaboration Scale (AITCS).…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Personnel, Professional Personnel, Cooperation
Furr, Mike; Bacharach, Verne R. – SAGE Publications (CA), 2007
The authors center their presentation of material around a conceptual understanding of psychometric issues, such as validity and reliability, and on purpose rather than procedure, the "why" rather than the "how to." Their goal is to introduce psychometric principles at a level that is deeper and more focused than found in introductory…
Descriptors: Generalizability Theory, Test Bias, Research Methodology, Testing

Sciortino, Rio – Psychological Reports, 1970
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Creative Thinking, Factor Analysis
RONNING, ROYCE R.; STEWART, LAWRENCE H. – 1964
A CONTINUATION STUDY OF USOE PROJECT NUMBER 1493 EXTENDED THE EXAMINATION OF PROBLEMS IN USING MULTIVARIATE SCALING TECHNIQUES FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF INTERESTS. AN EXPERIMENTAL INSTRUMENT, SIMILAR IN FORMAT TO THE SOCIAL RELATIONS SCALE CONSTRUCTED BY GARDNER AND THOMPSON (1956), WAS PREVIOUSLY DEVELOPED. SUBTESTS ON THIS INSTRUMENT (THE INTEREST…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Counseling, Educational Counseling, Factor Analysis
Lunneborg, Clifford; And Others – Educ Psychol Meas, 1970
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Community Colleges, Factor Analysis, Factor Structure
Walther, Regis H. – 1970
This paper reports the development of a self-report inventory for measuring work-relevant attitudes. A pool of 72 items was created after a review of the research literature. These items were administered to 89 out-of-school Neighborhood Youth Corps enrollees in Cincinnati and to 78 New Careers enrollees in Durham. Performance ratings were…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Measurement Instruments, Motivation, Out of School Youth
Dunham, J. L.; and others – Educ Psychol Meas, 1969
Study conducted by the Aptitudes Research Project at the University of Southern California, under Contract Nonr-228(20) with the Office of Naval Research, Personnel and Training Branch.
Descriptors: Ability, Classification, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation
Haak, Ruth Adlof; And Others – 1972
The Student Evaluation of Teacher II (SET II), the new instrument presented in this manual, is designed for use in securing student evaluations of teachers below the fourth grade or, with disadvantaged students, through the sixth grade. The manual describes the history, nature, and difficulties of the student evaluation of teachers movement and…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Elementary Education, Factor Analysis, Guides