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Lu, Yi – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Cross-national comparisons of responses to survey items are often affected by response style, particularly extreme response style (ERS). ERS varies across cultures, and has the potential to bias inferences in cross-national comparisons. For example, in both PISA and TIMSS assessments, it has been documented that when examined within countries,…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Attitude Measures, Response Style (Tests), Cultural Differences
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Marsh, Herbert W.; Hau, Kit-Tai; Artelt, Cordula; Baumert, Jurgen; Peschar, Jules L. – International Journal of Testing, 2006
Through a rigorous process of selecting educational psychology's most useful affective constructs, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) constructed the Students' Approaches to Learning (SAL) instrument, which requires only 10 min to measure 14 factors that assess self-regulated learning strategies, self-beliefs,…
Descriptors: Measurement Techniques, Educational Psychology, Psychometrics, Cross Cultural Studies