NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Audience
Students1
Laws, Policies, & Programs
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Showing 1 to 15 of 34 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Basting, Evan J.; Naser, Shereen; Goncy, Elizabeth A. – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2022
The BASC-3 Behavioral and Emotional Screening System Student Form (BESS SF) is the latest iteration of a widely used instrument for identifying students at behavioral and emotional risk. Measurement invariance across race/ethnicity and gender for the latest BESS SF has not yet been established. Using a sample of 737 U.S. urban fourth- to…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Factor Analysis, Screening Tests, Emotional Disturbances
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
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
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
La Salle, Tamika P.; McCoach, Dorothy Betsy; Meyers, Joel – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2021
School climate can have a notable impact on student academic, social, emotional, and behavioral outcomes. It is also a critical component of school improvement efforts, as demonstrated by recent federal and state initiatives to provide resources and supports for increased school climate measurement, accountability, and improvement. The primary…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, School Surveys, Student Surveys, Middle School Students
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Yurdabakan, Irfan; Uz Bas, Asli – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2019
The aim of the study is to adapt the School Kindness Scale (SKS) to Turkish, and to examine its psychometric properties. For this purpose, two separate samples were used. Totally, 611 middle school students (302 boys, corresponding to 49.43% and 309 girls, corresponding to 50.57%) participated in the Study 1, and 759 middle school students (369…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Factor Structure, Test Validity
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Styck, Kara M.; Villarreal, Victor; Watkins, Marley W. – School Psychology, 2020
Reading depends on the integration of both cognitive and motivational factors, yet reading motivation has received little attention in the research literature. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Baylor Revision of the Motivation to Read Survey (B-MRS; Watkins & Browning, 2015) with a sample of…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Reading Motivation, Middle School Students, Factor Analysis
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Karwowski, Maciej; Milerski, Boguslaw – Education Sciences, 2021
This paper introduces and empirically tests the model of tetragonal educational rationality that consists of four interrelated categories: hermeneutic, emancipatory, praxeological, and negational rationalities. Based on a large longitudinal study on primary and middle school students (total N = 1990), we investigated the psychometric properties of…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Factor Structure
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Chou, Ying-Chun; Chiu, Chiung-Hui – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2020
This study serves to develop a multidimensional scale for assessing the digital fluency of preadolescents. The researchers applied exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to evaluate the constancy of the classified factors and to elucidate relationships among factors in the Digital Fluency Scale. A total of 224…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Preadolescents, Computer Literacy
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Coelho, Vítor Alexandre; Sousa, Vanda – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2020
The Bullying and Cyberbullying Behaviors Questionnaire--Short Form (BCBQ-SF) allows students to report their victimization and bullying behaviors. The questionnaire was completed by 1,003 middle school students (6th-9th grade; M[subscript age] = 12.78, SD = 1.43). Factor analyses supported an integrated two-factor structure with acceptable…
Descriptors: Bullying, Computer Mediated Communication, Questionnaires, Factor Structure
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Uyar, Seyma – International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2021
In the current study, the appropriateness of the Mathematics Attitude Questionnaire administered to middle school 8th grade students in the TIMSS 2015 application to the exploratory structural equation and confirmatory factor analysis models was examined. The study was conducted on 6079 students making up the sample of Turkey. In the TIMSS 2015…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Factor Analysis, Achievement Tests, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Pozza, Andrea; Barcaccia, Barbara; Dèttore, Davide – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2019
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in adolescents is understudied in Italy. This study evaluated the Italian Obsessive Compulsive Inventory--Child Version (OCI-CV) and its predictive validity on OCD symptoms at 1-year-follow-up, an aspect that was not investigated by previous international research. Use of OCI-CV in schools might enhance early…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Italian, Adolescents, Measures (Individuals)
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Hemdan Mohamed, Ahmed Hassan; Omara, Ehab Mohammed Naguib – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2020
The purpose of this study was to explore the psychometric properties of an Arabic translation of the Gifted Rating Scales-School Form (GRS-S) on a national sample of 907 students from Cycle 1 (Grades 1 to 4) and Cycle 2 (Grades 5 to 10) from five governorates in Oman (Muscat, Dhofar, Al-Batinah North, Al-Sharqiyah South, and Al-Dhahira). The…
Descriptors: Rating Scales, Semitic Languages, Psychometrics, Translation
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Vilia, Paulo; Candeias, Adelinda A. – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
The importance of attitudes and other variables of the affective domain in education is acknowledged for a long time. In this study, we used an attitude questionnaire to survey 498 Portuguese 9th-grade students to determine the predictive ability of the attitudes towards the discipline of Physics-chemistry on school achievement. Possible gender…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Student Attitudes, Factor Structure, High School Students
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Ridgley, Lisa M.; DaVia Rubenstein, Lisa; Finch, W. Holmes – Gifted and Talented International, 2019
Identifying creatively gifted students remains a challenging yet important task. Often, teacher rating scales are used to assess students' creative behaviors; however, the school environment may not always provide opportunities for students to demonstrate creative ability, making it challenging for teachers to observe students' creative potential.…
Descriptors: Identification, Rating Scales, Creativity, Gifted
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Renshaw, Tyler L. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2017
The present study reports on an investigation of the generalizability of the technical adequacy of the Positive Experience at School Scale (PEASS) with a sample of students (N = 1,002) who differed substantially in age/grade level (i.e., adolescents in middle school as opposed to children in elementary school) and ethnic identity (i.e., majority…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Student Experience, Adolescents, Middle School Students
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Gaspard, Hanna; Dicke, Anna-Lena; Flunger, Barbara; Schreier, Brigitte; Häfner, Isabelle; Trautwein, Ulrich; Nagengast, Benjamin – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2015
Expectancy-value theory (Eccles et al., 1983) is a prominent approach to explaining gender differences in math-related academic choices, with value beliefs acting as an important explanatory factor. Expectancy-value theory defines 4 value components: intrinsic value, attainment value, utility value, and cost. The present study followed up on…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Mathematics, Beliefs, Grade 9
Previous Page | Next Page »
Pages: 1  |  2  |  3