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Hinchliffe, Lisa Janicke; Rand, Allison; Collier, Jillian – Communications in Information Literacy, 2018
The process of learning includes not only success in developing knowledge, skills, and abilities but also mistakes and errors that impede such success. In any domain of learning, instructors will have developed a sense of the typical errors learners make; however, there has been no systematic investigation and documentation of predictable…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, College Freshmen, Focus Groups, Misconceptions
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Benjamin, Thomas E.; Marks, Bryant; Demetrikopoulos, Melissa K.; Rose, Jordan; Pollard, Ethen; Thomas, Alicia; Muldrow, Lycurgus L. – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2017
Although a major goal of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education is to develop scientific literacy, prior efforts at measuring scientific literacy have not attempted to link scientific literacy with success in STEM fields. The current Scientific Literacy Survey for College Preparedness in STEM (SLSCP-STEM) scale was…
Descriptors: Scientific Literacy, Measures (Individuals), Test Construction, Program Validation
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Rogers, Daniel T. – Teaching of Psychology, 2015
This study further examined the reliability and validity of the Learning Alliance Inventory (LAI), a self-report measure designed to assess the working alliance between a student and a teacher. The LAI was found to have good internal consistency and test--retest reliability, and it demonstrated the predicted convergence with measures of immediacy…
Descriptors: Program Validation, Test Reliability, Test Validity, Self Disclosure (Individuals)
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Maulana, Ridwan; Helms-Lorenz, Michelle; van de Grift, Wim – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2015
The present study examines the development of a measure tapping students' perceptions of (pre-service) teachers' teaching behaviour to explore the practical value of such a measure in teacher education and teacher professional development programs. From a sample of 1,635 students of 91 pre-service teachers teaching in secondary education in The…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Test Construction, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education
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Garb, Howard N.; Wood, James M.; Fiedler, Edna R. – Assessment, 2011
Using 65 items from a mental health screening questionnaire, the History Opinion Inventory-Revised (HOI-R), the present study compared three strategies of scale construction--(1) internal (based on factor analysis), (2) external (based on empirical performance) and (3) intuitive (based on clinicians' opinion)--to predict whether 203,595 U.S. Air…
Descriptors: Opinions, Mental Health, Test Validity, Measures (Individuals)
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Vlachopoulos, Symeon P.; Michailidou, Sotiria – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2006
The development process and initial validation of the Basic Psychological Needs in Exercise Scale (BPNES) are presented in this study. The BPNES is a domain-specific self-report instrument designed to assess perceptions of the extent to which the innate needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness (Deci & Ryan, 2000) are satisfied in…
Descriptors: Psychological Needs, Predictive Validity, Factor Structure, Measures (Individuals)