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MBBS Student Perceptions about Physiology Subject Teaching and Objective Structured Practical Examination Based Formative Assessment for Improving Competencies
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Lakshmipathy, K. – Advances in Physiology Education, 2015
The objectives of the present study were to 1) assess student attitudes to physiology, 2) evaluate student opinions about the influence of an objective structured practical examination (OSPE) on competence, and 3) assess the validity and reliability of an indigenously designed feedback questionnaire. A structured questionnaire containing 16 item…
Descriptors: Physiology, Student Attitudes, Formative Evaluation, Undergraduate Students
Dysarthria Impact Profile: Development of a Scale to Measure Psychosocial Effects
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Walshe, Margaret; Peach, Richard K.; Miller, Nick – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2009
Background: The psychosocial impact of acquired dysarthria on the speaker is well recognized. To date, speech-and-language therapists have no instrument available to measure this construct. This has implications for outcome measurement and for planning intervention. This paper describes the Dysarthria Impact Profile (DIP), an instrument that has…
Descriptors: Head Injuries, Semantic Differential, Measures (Individuals), Psychometrics
The Development and Validation of a Hybrid Semantic Differential Measure of School Related Attitudes in Young Children.
Randhawa, Bikkar S.; Van Hesteren, Frank – 1982
The present study: (1) describes the development and make-up of a comprehensive semantic differential measure of school related attitudes for young children; (2) presents evidence for the reliability and the discriminant and convergent validities of the measure; and (3) discusses issues pertaining to the measurement of school-related attitudes in…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Measurement Techniques
Aspiration and Attainment: The Measurement of Professional Self Perception in Student Teachers. Occasional Paper No. 11.
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Elsworth, Gerald R.; Coulter, Frank – 1977
This monograph reports the development of a semantic differential designed to measure professional self perception in student teachers. Seven scales were identified by factor analysis of the responses of 396 student teachers to 56 adjectival pairs used to rate the concepts "Myself,""Myself as I would like to be,""Myself as…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Evaluation Criteria, Factor Structure, Foreign Countries
School-Related Attitudes and Their Redundancy with Academic Achievement.
Randhawa, Bikkar S.; Van Hesteren, Frank – 1983
The development of a modified semantic differential measure of school-related attitudes of grades 3-6 children is described and its validation involving 99 children is reported. Each of the four scales of this measure, Attitude Toward-School, -Language Arts, -Teachers, and -Arithmetic, was found to be unidimensional. Internal consistency estimates…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affective Measures, Correlation, Elementary Education
Technical Report on the School Subjects Attitude Scales [and] Improving and Extending the School Subjects Attitude Scales [and] Manual for Administration, Scoring, and Interpretation of the School Subjects Attitude Scales.
Nyberg, V. R.; Clarke, S. C. T. – 1979
A five-point school subjects attitude scale, based on the semantic differential technique, was developed after two rounds of factor analysis; it contained 24 bipolar adjectives, each representing one of three factors: evaluation, usefulness, and difficulty. The scale was administered to Alberta (Canada) students in grades 5 and 8, who were…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attitude Measures, Cultural Differences, Elementary Education