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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
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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)
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Ursavas, Ömer Faruk; Kabakçi Yurdakul, Isil; Türk, Mesut; Mcilroy, David – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2016
With reference to the digital natives' debate, there is a gap on digital natives' characteristics. To fill this gap, the Digital Natives Assessment Scale was developed to measure students' assessment of the degree to which they perceived themselves to possess the attributes of digital natives. The scale was developed within the Turkish language…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Students, Preservice Teachers, Technology Uses in Education
Wagner, Jennie M. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The United States has become more ethnically diverse, and this trend is projected to continue. Despite an increase in minority group enrollment on campus in the United States during the last decade, their rates of degree completion are not keeping pace (NCES, 2007). The question that remains to be answered is: What factors are unique to minority…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Minority Group Students, Race, Educational Attainment
Iossi, Laura Hillerbrand – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Math anxiety levels and performance outcomes were compared for bilingual and monolingual community college Intermediate Algebra students attending a culturally diverse urban commuter college. Participants (N = 618, 250 men, 368 women; 361 monolingual, 257 bilingual) completed the Abbreviated Math Anxiety Scale (AMAS) and a demographics instrument.…
Descriptors: Education Majors, Community Colleges, Commuter Colleges, Predictor Variables
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Hilton, Sterling C.; Schau, Candace; Olsen, Joseph A. – Structural Equation Modeling, 2004
In addition to student learning, positive student attitudes have become an important course outcome for many introductory statistics instructors. To adequately assess changes in mean attitudes across introductory statistics courses, the attitude instruments used should be invariant by administration time. Attitudes toward statistics from 4,910…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, College Students, Higher Education, Factor Structure
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Andreou, Eleni; Vlachos, Filippos; Andreou, Georgia – Educational Research, 2006
Background: There is considerable interest in differences in students' approaches to learning, particularly in the difference between "deep" approaches (characterized by contextualization, critical review and recognition of the value of the content) and "surface" approaches (characterized by rote learning for functional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Learning Strategies, Factor Structure