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Cavioni, Valeria; Grazzani, Ilaria; Ornaghi, Veronica; Pepe, Alessandro; Pons, Francisco – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2020
The Test of Emotion Comprehension (TEC) has been used extensively to investigate children's understanding of emotion. The present study aimed at investigating the TEC's factorial structure, its measurement invariance across age and gender, and defining age-referred TEC scores, in a large sample of 1,478 children (755 males, 723 females) aged…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Gender Differences, Emotional Development, Developmental Stages
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ten Braak, Dieuwer; Størksen, Ingunn – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2021
This study assessed the psychometric properties of a digital early mathematics assessment, the Ani Banani Math Test (ABMT) in three samples (N[subscript 1] = 243, N[subscript 2] = 691, N[subscript 3] = 1282) in kindergarten and first grade (age range 4.67-7.30). Confirmatory factor analyses showed that the ABMT appears to measure one general…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Mathematics Tests, Kindergarten, Elementary School Students
Liu, Jin; Guo, Siying; Gao, Ruiqin; DiStefano, Christine – School Psychology International, 2020
The Pediatric Symptom Checklist-17 was originally used in primary care settings with parents to identify their children's behavioral and emotional problems, but there has been some research supporting use of this scale in school settings. This study examined: (a) the factor structure and measurement invariance of the teacher-rated Pediatric…
Descriptors: Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Check Lists, Factor Structure, Error of Measurement
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Nyroos, Mikaela; Korhonen, Johan; Peng, Aihui; Linnanmäki, Karin; Svens-Liavåg, Camilla; Bagger, Anette; Sjöberg, Gunnar – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2015
While test anxiety has been studied extensively, little consideration has been given to the cultural impacts of children's experiences and expressions of test anxiety. The aim of this work was to examine whether variance in test anxiety scores can be predicted based on gender and cultural setting. Three hundred and ninety-eight pupils in Grade 3…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Cultural Differences, Test Anxiety, Student Experience
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Kokkinos, Constantinos M.; Stavropoulos, George; Davazoglou, Aggeliki – Teacher Development, 2016
The Stressors about Practicum Inventory, a self-report measure of perceived stressors about the practicum, was designed to provide those responsible for the training of primary school teachers with an informative, inexpensive and psychometrically sound tool. The present study describes the development and validation of the 94-item inventory in a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Teachers, Practicums, Stress Variables
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Koo, Jin; Becker, Betsy Jane; Kim, Young-Suk – Language Testing, 2014
In this study, differential item functioning (DIF) trends were examined for English language learners (ELLs) versus non-ELL students in third and tenth grades on a large-scale reading assessment. To facilitate the analyses, a meta-analytic DIF technique was employed. The results revealed that items requiring knowledge of words and phrases in…
Descriptors: Test Bias, Reading Tests, English Language Learners, Native Speakers
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Van Horn, M. Lee; Atkins-Burnett, Sally; Karlin, Emilie; Ramey, Sharon Landesman; Snyder, Scott – School Psychology Quarterly, 2007
The assessment of children's social skills is an important task for school psychologists in both applied and research settings. The present study examines the psychometric properties of parent ratings of the Social Skills Rating System (SSRS), in kindergarten through third grades, testing for measurement differences between boys and girls, between…
Descriptors: Scoring, Psychometrics, Parent Attitudes, Kindergarten