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Nichols, Linda M. – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2018
This study evolved from a previous study that examined the perceptions of the importance of specific traits to success in the accounting profession by both accounting professionals in the United States and internationally. That study found that the international subjects valued some soft skills, such as creativity, as being more important to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Accounting, Student Attitudes, Success
Corley, James Earl; Massie, F. Stanford, Jr.; Medrano, Martha; Estrada, Carlos A. – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2016
Cultural competent care is the ability to deliver effective medical care to people from different cultures. The lack of methodological rigor and paucity of psychometric properties information of the instruments limits the generalizability of cultural competency educational interventions. We examined cultural attitudes of first year medical…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Beliefs, Health Behavior, Medical Students
Simons, Mathea; Meeus, Will; T'Sas, Jan – Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2017
Effective media education requires that teachers have sufficient media literacy competencies as well as the competencies to promote media literacy in students. This article describes the development of a questionnaire to measure these competencies individually or as a team. The questionnaire was developed in five stages. A systematic and critical…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Media Literacy, Journalism Education, Teacher Competencies
Chang, Wen-Hui; Liu, Yuan-Chen; Huang, Tzu-Hua – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2017
The purpose of this study is to develop a multi-dimensional scale to measure students' awareness of key competencies for M-learning and to test its reliability and validity. The Key Competencies of Mobile Learning Scale (KCMLS) was determined via confirmatory factor analysis to have four dimensions: team collaboration, creative thinking, critical…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Multidimensional Scaling, Electronic Learning, Test Reliability
Dean, Shannon R. – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2017
Developing multiculturally competent citizens is at the forefront of the espoused mission of higher education. The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a self-report instrument to measure traditional-age (18-to 24-year-old) college students' multicultural consciousness (e.g., awareness of self, knowledge of difference, and…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Cultural Literacy, Cultural Awareness, Interpersonal Competence
Polat, Soner; Arslan, Yaser; Ölçüm, Dinçer – Issues in Educational Research, 2017
The aim of this study is to develop a valid and reliable instrument to determine the level of school administrators' diversity leadership based on teachers' perceptions. For this purpose, an item pool was created which includes 68 questions based on the literature, and data were obtained from 343 teachers. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was…
Descriptors: School Administration, Interpersonal Competence, Leadership Qualities, Test Construction
Scheuer, Claude; Bund, Andreas; Becker, Werner; Herrmann, Christian – Cogent Education, 2017
Basic motor competencies (in German: Motorische Basiskompetenzen; MOBAK) are motor performance dispositions formulated as minimum standards that empower children to participate in the culture of human movement. In opposition to movement-specific and process-oriented fundamental movement skills assessing the quality of movement execution, basic…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Elementary School Students, Student Surveys, Test Construction
Cisneros, Jesus; Cadenas, German – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2017
DREAMzone is an educational intervention designed to increase higher education professionals' competency and self-efficacy for working with undocumented students. Grounded in social learning theory, we developed the DREAMer-ally instrument to investigate the effects of DREAMzone on DREAMer-ally competency and self-efficacy. Findings support the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Staff Development, Self Efficacy, Competency Based Education
Arslan, Rumiye; Nalinci, Gülbin Zeren – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2014
The aim of this study is to develop a scale determining the visual literacy levels of university students. After reviewing the relevant literature a 75 item draft scale was prepared. The scale was applied to 3rd and 4th year students of Education Faculty of Amasya University. Non-functional items have been excluded from the scale as a result of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Visual Literacy, Test Construction, College Students
Teo, Timothy; Kabakçi Yurdakul, Isil; Ursavas, Ömer Faruk – Interactive Learning Environments, 2016
This study aims to explore the digital natives among a sample of pre-service teachers and in the process, examine the validity of a Turkish adaptation of the digital native assessment scale (DNAS) [Teo, T., & Fan, X. (2013). "Coefficient alpha and beyond: Issues and alternatives for educational research." "The Asia-Pacific…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Cross Cultural Studies, Program Validation
Epstein, Robert; Phan, Victoria – Creativity Research Journal, 2012
In a follow-up to a previously published study (Epstein, Schmidt, & Warfel, 2008), an ethnically-diverse sample of 13,578 people in 47 countries (mainly the United States and Canada) took an online test that measures 4 trainable competencies that have been shown to enhance creative expression in individuals. The new study confirmed that the…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Creativity, Art Expression, Skill Analysis
Taylor-Ritzler, Tina; Suarez-Balcazar, Yolanda; Garcia-Iriarte, Edurne; Henry, David B.; Balcazar, Fabricio E. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2013
This study describes the development and validation of the Evaluation Capacity Assessment Instrument (ECAI), a measure designed to assess evaluation capacity among staff of nonprofit organizations that is based on a synthesis model of evaluation capacity. One hundred and sixty-nine staff of nonprofit organizations completed the ECAI. The 68-item…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Nonprofit Organizations, Capacity Building
Banoglu, Koksal – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2011
The aim of this study is to determine the primary and high school principals' competency in technology leadership and so to define implications for advanced competency. The population of the study was formed by 134 school principals in Maltepe and Kadikoy districts in Istanbul. On account of the fact that population was reachable, no specific…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Information Technology, Principals, Competence
Caban, Alisia Rose – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The development, maintenance, and integration of multicultural competence into all aspects of psychologists' work is critical to ethical practice in an increasingly diverse society. Measurement of multicultural competency is critical to investigating the development of multicultural competence and the effectiveness of multicultural competency…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Factor Structure, Measures (Individuals), Factor Analysis
Soder, Jane B. – 1979
Mastery of sixteen "life skills" tasks will be a Seattle Public Schools graduation requirement beginning in 1981. Five forms of the Minimum Competencies Performance Test, which will be used to measure mastery of those tasks, are presently being developed and field tested. This report presents the results of the analysis of the first…
Descriptors: Daily Living Skills, Factor Analysis, Graduation Requirements, High Schools
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