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Ana Paula Porto Noronha; Leandro S. Almeida; Caroline T. Reppold – International Journal of Testing, 2024
"Grit" is a stable and measurable trait. It refers to the individual's ability to maintain efforts and interest in projects that take time to complete and are useful in educational contexts. In this study we investigated the validity of a short version of the Grit |International Assessment Scale, Portuguese Version (EAGrit-LP) based on…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Psychological Evaluation, Higher Education, Psychometrics
Erkko Sointu; Virpi Vellonen; Kwok Ng; Aino Äikäs; Leena Holopainen; Theresa Hoang – Journal of Teacher Education and Educators, 2025
Inclusive education requires staff commitment to the principles of inclusion, and teacher training is crucial to fulfilling its goals. However, research on higher education teacher educators' inclusive dispositions is lacking, particularly in the Finnish or Nordic context. To redress this situation, psychometrically sound research instruments are…
Descriptors: Inclusion, College Faculty, Higher Education, Educational Practices
Yalalem Assefa; Bekalu Tadesse Moges; Shouket Ahmad Tilwani – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: Lifelong learning has become one of the most interesting areas of research. Hence, the current study was aimed at developing and validating a tool that helps to study how well people working in higher education institutions are engaged in lifelong learning. Design/methodology/approach: A review of theories in the literature and experts'…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Measures (Individuals), Likert Scales, Test Construction
Cummings, Miriam Howland; Zong, Chen; Haug, Carolyn A.; Leech, Nancy L. – Studies in Higher Education, 2023
Occupational embeddedness is defined as what keeps people in their current occupation and is believed to have three dimensions: Fit (perceived compatibility), Links (ties to others), and Sacrifice (material or psychological losses upon career change). Occupational embeddedness is highly relevant for academic faculty in higher education, who have a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Faculty, Job Satisfaction, Likert Scales
Jang, Nayoung; Culver, K. C.; Bowman, Nicholas A. – Journal of College and Character, 2023
Spirituality in higher education has received increasing attention in the last two decades, but the association of spirituality with religiousness creates challenges. As an alternative approach to spirituality, this study proposes a scale to measure the closely related concept of students' authenticity. Using a large-scale, longitudinal dataset,…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Spiritual Development, Reliability, Validity
Samer Khasawneh; Jamal Abu-Alruz; Ayman Oliemat; Salah Hailat; Omar Bataineh – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2024
The objective of this study was to create a psychometrically valid and reliable toxic leadership scale (TLS) for use in higher education workplace environments. The TLS was administered to a sample of 482 faculty members employed by three public universities in Jordan. Another aim of the study was to determine the level of toxic leadership based…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Antisocial Behavior, Higher Education, Foreign Countries
Martin, Florence; Bolliger, Doris U.; Flowers, Claudia – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2021
Course design is critical to online student engagement and retention. This study focused on the development and validation of an online course design elements (OCDE) instrument with 38 Likert-type scale items in five subscales: (a) overview, (b) content presentation, (c) interaction and communication, (d) assessment and evaluation, and (e) learner…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Online Courses, Likert Scales, Test Construction
Çetin, Münevver; Karaokur Akdag, Seyma – Journal of Education and Learning, 2022
The aim of this study was to develop a scaling instrument for measuring organizational development level in the Turkish higher education context depending on perceptions of the faculty. The sample consisted of academicians of higher education institutions in the 2020-2021 academic year. Data were gathered in two stages. Exploratory Factor Analysis…
Descriptors: Organizational Development, Likert Scales, Measures (Individuals), Test Construction
Nice, Matthew L.; Joseph, Matthew; Kolbert, Jered B.; Hilts, Derron N.; Crothers, Laura M.; Kratsa, Kristi – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2021
The present work describes the development of a new measure of school counselors' perceived self-efficacy regarding their knowledge of information and processes necessary to effectively guide their students through the college transition process. Researchers developed the School Counselor Efficacy for College Knowledge Questionnaire and examined…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, School Counselors, Test Construction, Self Efficacy
Aydin, Mustafa; Kecici, Sayime Erben – International Journal of Instruction, 2019
In this study, it is aimed to adapt the LIST scale that was prepared by Boerner et al. (2005) to define the learning strategies of university students, to Turkish. Validity and reliability analysis were made for Turkish form considering the original form. The study was conducted with 754 college students. Firstly, the linguistic equivalency of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Likert Scales, Learning Strategies, Higher Education
Uygur, Mutlu; Yanpar Yelken, Tugba – Asian Journal of Education and Training, 2020
A valid and reliable measurement tool has been developed to measure the teaching-learning process self-efficacy of instructors in higher education institutions. During the scale development stage, the scale form was e-mailed to 305 instructors, who were selected through purposive sampling method, working at the faculties of health, social,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Test Construction, Attitude Measures, Self Efficacy
Tadesse, Tefera; Manathunga, Catherine E.; Gillies, Robyn M. – Higher Education Research and Development, 2018
This paper is positioned to make a sound contribution to knowledge of higher education (HE) quality through its study of student engagement in a large university in Ethiopia. We establish that the assessment of student engagement is a valid facet in determining HE quality, contributing holistically alongside quality assurance and university…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learner Engagement, Measures (Individuals), Test Construction
Rathwell, Scott; Young, Bradley W. – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2016
Limited tools assess positive development through university sport. Such a tool was validated in this investigation using two independent samples of Canadian university athletes. In Study 1, 605 athletes completed 99 survey items drawn from the Youth Experience Scale (YES 2.0), and separate a priori measurement models were evaluated (i.e., 99…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Structural Equation Models, College Athletics, Athletes
Zhoc, Karen C. H.; Li, Johnson C. H.; Webster, Beverley J. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2017
Emotional Intelligence Scale (EIS) is a popular EI measure. Yet, it has been criticized for an unclear factor structure, and its psychometric properties were mainly examined in the Western context. This study was to evaluate its psychometric properties based on 1,724 Hong Kong undergraduate students, including its (a) factor structure, (b)…
Descriptors: Validity, Reliability, Emotional Intelligence, Measures (Individuals)
Grammatikopoulos, Vasilis; Linardakis, M.; Gregoriadis, A.; Oikonomidis, V. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2015
The aim of the current study was to provide a valid and reliable instrument for the evaluation of the teaching effectiveness in the Greek higher education system. Other objectives of the study were (a) the examination of the dimensionality and the higher-order structure of the Greek version of Students' Evaluation of Educational Quality (SEEQ)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Questionnaires, Higher Education, Teacher Effectiveness