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Min-Ying Tsai – SAGE Open, 2025
The study aimed to verify the psychometric properties of the emotional-style scale and explore different clusters of emotional styles. An emotional style scale was completed in three districts of western Taiwan using stratified random sampling. The study confirmed the reliability and convergent validity of each subscale in a sample of 712…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychometrics, Classification, Psychological Patterns
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Nicolas Rochat; Laurent Lima; Pascal Bressoux – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2025
Inference is considered an important factor in comprehension models and has been described as a causal factor in predicting comprehension. To date, specific tests for inference are rare and often rely on specific thematic texts. This reliance on thematic inference may raise some concerns as inference is related to prior text-specific knowledge.…
Descriptors: Inferences, Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Test Reliability
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Kathleen Lynne Lane; Wendy Peia Oakes; Mark Matthew Buckman; Nathan Allen Lane; Katie Scarlett Lane; Kandace Fleming; Rebecca E. Swinburne Romine; Rebecca L. Sherod; Chi-Ning Chang; Jamie Jones; Emily Dawn Cantwell; Meredith Crittenden – Remedial and Special Education, 2024
Given the need for a swift, systematic way to identify students with internalizing and externalizing behavior patterns to connect these students with appropriate supports, we present new findings of the Student Risk Screening Scale--Internalizing and Externalizing (SRSS-IE). In this article, we examined (a) factor structure of the SRSS-IE and (b)…
Descriptors: Screening Tests, At Risk Students, Psychometrics, Factor Structure
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Beth Doll; Farya Haider; Jay Jeffries – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2025
More than a decade after two comprehensive examinations of the technical properties of the ClassMaps Survey (CMS), this study reexamined the structure and internal consistency of the scale and, for the first time, examined its measurement invariance across gender and school levels. Participants were 1,083 elementary and middle level students from…
Descriptors: Student Surveys, Attitude Measures, Student Attitudes, Elementary School Students
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Xie, Zhengli; Deng, Meng; Ma, Ying – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2023
Social support perceived by inclusive education teachers is seldom empirically investigated, and there are few tools to measure it. This research aims to develop a valid instrument to investigate inclusive education teachers' social support and to determine the current situation of such support in China. A total of 216 and 367 valid questionnaires…
Descriptors: Social Support Groups, Inclusion, Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes
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Esposito, Concetta; Affuso, Gaetana; Miranda, Maria Concetta; Bacchini, Dario – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2021
Adolescent thinking about the wrongness of antisocial behaviours plays a key role in their own engagement in antisocial conducts. Nevertheless, measures assessing adolescent antisocial evaluations are not common in literature. Informed by the social domain theory and using adolescent actual thinking about antisocial behaviours, this study…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Measures (Individuals), Adolescents, Foreign Countries
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Immekus, Jason C.; Ingle, W. Kyle – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2019
Factor analytic procedures were used to gather validity evidence on the internal structure of Skinner, Kinderman, and Furrer's Engagement versus "Disaffection with Learning" measure to operationalize students' classroom engagement. Independent samples of middle school students (Sample 1 = 618, Sample 2 = 493) were used to test the…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Test Validity, Factor Structure, Measures (Individuals)
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Park, HwaChoon; Hill, Roger B. – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2021
The Teachers' Occupational Work Ethic Scale (TOWES) was developed for assessing teachers' work ethic in Korea. Based on an extensive literature review of work ethic instruments and focus group interviews of 15 principals from elementary, middle, and high schools, 77 initial items were developed. Content and face validity of the items were examined…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Foreign Countries, Work Ethic, Factor Structure
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Lipien, Lodi; Ismajli, Flandra; Rigg, Khary K. – Psychology in the Schools, 2021
"LifeSkills Training" (LST) is a popular drug prevention program shown to be effective at preventing youth substance use. The Middle School Health Survey (MSHS) is a questionnaire that was created by the developers of the LST curriculum to measure changes in knowledge and attitudes about drugs and life skills among youth. Despite the…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Drug Abuse, Prevention, Drug Education
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Graham, Steve; Harbaugh-Schattenkirk, Allen G.; Aitken, A. Angelique; Harris, Karen R.; Ng, Clarence; Wilson, John M.; Wdowin, Jeanne – Educational Psychology Review, 2023
This study examined the factorial and construct validity of a multi-dimensional measure of motives for writing with middle school students. The Writing Motivation Questionnaire included 28 items assessing seven motives for writing. Two motives assessed intrinsic reasons for writing (curiosity, involvement); three motives addressed extrinsic…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Questionnaires, Factor Structure, Test Validity
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Jéldrez, Elvira; Cain, Kate; Silva, Macarena; Strasser, Katherine – Reading Psychology, 2023
Reading motivation is multidimensional and a critical contributor to students' reading comprehension skill. Its multidimensionality is problematic, as there is currently no consensus on the dimensions underlying reading motivation, which are being tested through a variety of instruments that lack statistical validation. Our goal was to discuss the…
Descriptors: Reading Motivation, Test Validity, Test Reliability, Factor Structure
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Wang, Xiaocheng; Jin, Yuanying – Journal of Literacy Research, 2021
This study addressed the cross-cultural validation of the Chinese Motivation for Reading Questionnaire (CMRQ) in a sample of 522 seventh to ninth graders from two public schools in eastern China. Confirmatory factor analyses, item-total correlation analyses, and reliability analyses were conducted to assess the psychometric quality of the CMRQ.…
Descriptors: Reading Motivation, Questionnaires, Test Validity, Test Reliability
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Romano, Luciano; Angelini, Giacomo; Consiglio, Piermarco; Fiorilli, Caterina – Education Sciences, 2022
Burnout is psychological, physical, and emotional suffering that may affect students with low or inadequate resources to face stressful events at school. Although the existing instruments are used worldwide to assess school burnout risk, they show several flaws and mainly focus on the emotional facets of the syndrome. No previous studies have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Burnout, Measures (Individuals), Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
Matthew A. Diemer; Michael B. Frisby; Andres Pinedo; Emanuele Bardelli; Erin Eliott; Elise Harris; Sara McAlister; Adam M. Voight – Grantee Submission, 2022
Critical consciousness represents the analysis and critique of structural inequalities, the motivation and perceived capacity to effect change, and social action to redress inequity. A wave of recent instruments measuring critical consciousness have been rigorously validated. Yet, whether these measures efficiently assess different levels of…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Measures (Individuals), Construct Validity, Test Reliability
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Matthew A. Diemer; Michael B. Frisby; Andres Pinedo; Emanuele Bardelli; Erin Elliot; Elise Harris; Sara McAlister; Adam M. Voight – Applied Developmental Science, 2022
Critical consciousness represents the analysis and critique of structural inequalities, the motivation and perceived capacity to effect change, and social action to redress inequity. A wave of recent instruments measuring critical consciousness has been rigorously validated. Yet, whether these measures efficiently assess different levels of…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Measures (Individuals), Construct Validity, Test Reliability
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