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Wheadon, Jacob; Wright, Geoff A.; West, Richard E.; Skaggs, Paul – Journal of Technology Education, 2017
This study discusses the need, development, and validation of the Innovation Test Instrument (ITI). This article outlines how the researchers identified the content domain of the assessment and created test items. Then, it describes initial validation testing of the instrument. The findings suggest that the ITI is a good first step in creating an…
Descriptors: Innovation, Program Validation, Evaluation Needs, Test Construction
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Sözen, Merve; Bolat, Mualla – Journal of Education and Learning, 2016
The purpose of this study is to develop an achievement test which includes the basic concepts about the subject of sound and its properties in middle school science lessons and which at the same time aims to reveal the alternative concepts that the students already have. During the process of the development of the test, studies in the field and…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Science Education, Acoustics, Test Construction
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Ireri, Bonface Ngari; Omwenga, Elijah I. – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
Due to the affordability, ease of use and availability of mobile devices, many people in Africa and developing countries have acquired at least a mobile device. The penetration of mobile devices places many learning institution in a position to adopt mobile learning, however there are few tools for measuring mobile learning readiness for an…
Descriptors: Learning Readiness, Handheld Devices, Outcome Measures, Benchmarking
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Kimbel, Tyler; Clemens, Elysia V. – Professional School Counseling, 2015
The School Counseling Program Report Card--Student Version is a program evaluation tool designed to capture high school student perceptions of school counseling services. This article describes the initial instrument development process. Exploratory factor analysis (N = 305) yielded a 22-item instrument with three subscales that mirror the ASCA…
Descriptors: School Counseling, Program Development, Program Validation, Counseling Services
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Schweizer, C. Amanda; Doran, Neal; Myers, Mark G. – Journal of American College Health, 2014
Objective: Expectancies about social outcomes for smoking are relevant to college student smokers, who frequently report "social smoking." A new measure, the Social Facilitation Expectancies (SFE) scale, was developed to assess these beliefs. Participants: The SFE was administered to undergraduate college student smokers ("N" =…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Smoking, College Students, Beliefs
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Loorbach, Nicole; Peters, Oscar; Karreman, Joyce; Steehouder, Michaël – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2015
The ARCS Model of Motivational Design has been used myriad times to design motivational instructions that focus on attention, relevance, confidence and satisfaction in order to motivate students. The Instructional Materials Motivation Survey (IMMS) is a 36-item situational measure of people's reactions to instructional materials in the light…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Program Validation, Independent Study, Technology Uses in Education
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Douglas, K. A.; Yale, M. S.; Bennett, D. E.; Haugan, M. P.; Bryan, L. A. – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2014
The Colorado Learning Attitudes about Science Survey (CLASS) is a widely used instrument designed to measure student attitudes toward physics and learning physics. Previous research revealed a fairly complex factor structure. In this study, exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were conducted on data from an undergraduate introductory…
Descriptors: Scientific Attitudes, Educational Attitudes, Science Education, Student Attitudes
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Zandi, Hamed; Kaivanpanah, Shiva; Alavi, Seyed Mohammad – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2014
Reviewing the test specifications to improve the quality of language tests may be a routine process in professional testing systems. However, there is a paucity of research about the effect of specifications review on improving the quality of small-scale tests. The purpose of the present study was twofold: how specifications review could help…
Descriptors: Test Reliability, Test Validity, Language Tests, Test Items
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Chiu, Chung-Yi; Jochman, Joseph; Fujikawa, Mayu; Strand, David; Cheing, Gladys; Lee, Gloria; Chan, Fong – Rehabilitation Research, Policy, and Education, 2014
Purpose: To examine the factorial structure of the "Coping Strategy Questionnaire"-24 (CSQ-24) in a sample of Canadians with chronic musculoskeletal pain. Method: The sample included 171 workers' compensation clients (50.9% men) recruited from outpatient rehabilitation facilities in Canada. Mean age of participants was 42.45 years (SD =…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Questionnaires, Coping, Measurement Techniques
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Duan, Wenjie; Ho, Samuel M. Y.; Yu, Bai; Tang, Xiaoqing; Zhang, Yonghong; Li, Tingting; Yuen, Tom – Research on Social Work Practice, 2012
Objectives: The present study examined the factorial invariance and functional equivalence of the Values in Action Inventory of Strengths (VIA-IS) among the Chinese. Methods: A total of 839 undergraduate students completed the 240-item Simplified Chinese version of the VIA-IS online. Another 40 students participated in qualitative interviews to…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Questionnaires, Asian Culture, Social Work
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Akarsu, Bayram – European Journal of Physics Education, 2012
Physics educators around the world often need reliable diagnostic materials to measure students' understanding of physics concept in high school. The purpose of this study is to evaluate a new diagnostic tool on High School Optics concept. Test of Conceptual Understanding on High School Optics (TOCUSO) consists of 25 conceptual items that measures…
Descriptors: High Schools, Secondary School Science, Optics, Concept Teaching
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Kundu, Madan M.; Dutta, Alo; Chan, Fong; Torres, Viviana; Fleming, Kayla – Rehabilitation Research, Policy, and Education, 2011
Purpose: To validate an 80-item self-report measure, A Systems Approach to Placement: Self-Assessment for Students and Counselors (SAP-SASC), designed to identify critical areas of knowledge, skills, and competencies possessed by rehabilitation counselors in state vocational rehabilitation (VR) agency settings. Participants: 275 rehabilitation…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Rehabilitation Counseling, Vocational Rehabilitation, Needs Assessment
Kasintorn, Tanachit – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this study was to develop a test of academic readiness for first grade instruction in Thailand. Test of Academic Readiness (TAR) consists of six domains: verbal, visual, memory, math, logical, and general knowledge. Two pilot studies were carried out and a main study tested items in those domains. Rasch model was used to assess the…
Descriptors: Content Validity, Reading Readiness Tests, Doctoral Dissertations, Foreign Countries
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Feldt, Leonard S.; Kim, Seonghoon – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2006
Researchers sometimes need a statistical test of the hypothesis that two values of Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficient are equal. The situation may involve scores from two different measures administered to independent random samples or from the same measure administered to random samples from two different populations. Feldt derived a test…
Descriptors: Individual Testing, Test Items, Sample Size, Scores