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Quellmalz, Edys S.; Davenport, Jodi L.; Timms, Michael J.; DeBoer, George E.; Jordan, Kevin A.; Huang, Chun-Wei; Buckley, Barbara C. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2013
How can assessments measure complex science learning? Although traditional, multiple-choice items can effectively measure declarative knowledge such as scientific facts or definitions, they are considered less well suited for providing evidence of science inquiry practices such as making observations or designing and conducting investigations.…
Descriptors: Science Education, Educational Assessment, Psychometrics, Science Tests
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Zaccaro, Stephen J. – American Psychologist, 2007
The trait-based perspective of leadership has a long but checkered history. Trait approaches dominated the initial decades of scientific leadership research. Later, they were disdained for their inability to offer clear distinctions between leaders and nonleaders and for their failure to account for situational variance in leadership behavior.…
Descriptors: Leadership Qualities, Leadership Effectiveness, Personality Assessment, Personality Studies
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Vroom, Victor H.; Jago, Arthur G. – American Psychologist, 2007
Leadership depends on the situation. Few social scientists would dispute the validity of this statement. But the statement can be interpreted in many different ways, depending, at least in part, on what one means by leadership. This article begins with a definition of leadership and a brief description of 3 historically important theories of…
Descriptors: Leadership, Role Theory, Leadership Training, Theory Practice Relationship