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Luo, Jiahui; Chan, Cecilia K. Y.; Zhao, Yue – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2023
Intensive research attention has focused on developing students' evaluative judgement within the higher education curriculum, but little has addressed how it can be measured. The contextual nature of evaluative judgement makes it difficult to generate an encompassing instrument, highlighting the need for situated measurement tools. Against this…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Higher Education, Evaluative Thinking, Intercultural Communication
Norvilitis, Jill M., Ed. – InTech, 2012
With many children and adults affected by Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, researchers strive to understand the underpinnings of ADHD and associated factors on both a basic and applied level. The goal of this volume is to explore some of the broad array of research in the field of ADHD. The 12 chapters cover a variety of topics as varied…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Knowledge Level, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Sensory Integration
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Byman, Reijo; Krokfors, Leena; Toom, Auli; Maaranen, Katriina; Jyrhama, Riitta; Kynaslahti, Heikki; Kansanen, Pertti – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2009
In this article, we will discuss research-based teacher education as an organizing theme of teacher education. We will report the results of two surveys in which students expressed their attitudes towards the research-based approach and their experiences of research-based teacher education. The construct validity of the inventory was tested using…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Student Attitudes, Construct Validity, Factor Analysis
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Tak, Jinkook – Journal of Career Assessment, 2004
The primary purpose of this research was to examine the vocational structure for Korean college students based on Holland's hexagon theory. The secondary purpose of this research was to provide validity data for using the Korean Strong Interest Inventory in Korea. With a sample of 829 Korean college students, using the Strong Interest Inventory…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Test Validity, Interest Inventories
Beran, Tanya; Violato, Claudio; Kline, Don; Frideres, Jim – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2005
Students, faculty and administrators at a major Canadian university were surveyed to investigate the utility or "consequential validity" of student ratings of instructors. Of the 1,229 (approximately equal number of males and females) students and alumni, about half (52%) indicated that they had never used the ratings, but of those who…
Descriptors: Validity, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, College Faculty
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Santos, Paulo Jorge; Casillas, Alex; Robbins, Steven B. – Journal of Career Assessment, 2004
This study examined the relevance of the Goal Instability Scale-Portuguese Adaptation (GIS-P) on the vocational identity and career certainty of 375 10th-, 11th-, and 12th-grade Portuguese high schoolers. After translating the GIS-P, confirmatory factor analysis was used to examine the factorial unidimensionality and reliability of the construct.…
Descriptors: Cultural Relevance, Correlation, Student Motivation, High School Students
Watson, A. – 1984
This booklet was designed to help teacher education students identify and explain certain basic principles of educational measurement and apply them to the development of a valid and reliable assessment program that measures the achievement of a set of educational objectives from a curriculum that they teach. It is intended for use in the Sydney…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Adult Education, Behavioral Objectives