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Direct linkPark, Hyunjoo; Lee, Jaehwan – Field Methods, 2018
Behavior coding is used to detect issues in questionnaires by flagging interactions between survey respondents and interviewers when their interactions deviate from standardized interviewing. It has become a popular method for evaluating survey questionnaire quality and has been used mostly in Western countries, with little research being done in…
Descriptors: Coding, Behavior, Questionnaires, Foreign Countries
Download full textWu, Ho-Tang; Chou, Mei-Ju; Lei, Meng-Shan; Hou, Jing-Fang; Wu, Ming-Hsyang – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2015
The research aims to develop "Sense of Life Meaning Scale" of Taiwan college students. In accordance with the related literature, most Western scholars adopted Frankl's Logotherapy for developing "Sense of Life Meaning Scale", which consists of freedom of will, will to meaning and meaning of life. The research also adopts these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attitudes, Beliefs
Lahwal, Fathia; Al-Ajlan, Ajlan S.; Amain, Mohamad – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2016
This study focuses on interactive multimedia e-learning aims to improve our understanding about the dynamics of e-learning. The objective is to critical evaluate and better understand the interrelationships in the proposed framework between internal, external and the pedagogy dimensions in adoption of interactive multimedia and e-learning. It…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adoption (Ideas), Multimedia Instruction, Electronic Learning
Ho-Tang, Wu; Chin-Tang, Tu; Mei-Ju, Chou; Jing-Fang, Hou; Meng-Shan, Lei – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2016
This study aims to develop Taiwan undergraduates' volunteer service motivation scale. To begin with, item pool was proposed on the basis of literature. After discussing with three Taiwan undergraduates, item pool, exploratory factor analysis (EFA) (N = 150) was proceeded, where three tests were conducted EFA: 1. Item analysis: comparisons of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Test Construction, Undergraduate Students, Student Volunteers
Clarke, Anthony; Collins, John; Triggs, Valerie; Nielsen, Wendy; Augustine, Ann; Coulter, Dianne; Cunningham, Joni; Grigoriadis, Tina; Hardman, Stephanie; Hunter, Lee; Kinegal, Jane; Li, Bianca; Mah, Jeff; Mastin, Karen; Partridge, David; Pawer, Leonard; Rasoda,Sandy; Salbuvik, Kathleen; Ward, Mitch; White, Janet; Weil, Frederick – Teaching Education, 2012
We report on the origins, development and refinement of an online inventory to help cooperating teachers focus on selected dimensions of their practice. The Mentoring Profile Inventory (MPI) helps quantify important features of both the motivating and challenging aspects of mentoring student teachers and provides results to respondents in a…
Descriptors: Cooperating Teachers, Practicum Supervision, Mentors, Student Teachers
Wildy, Helen; Clarke, Simon – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2009
This paper provides an example of the application of the cognitive interview, a qualitative tool for pre-testing a survey instrument to check its cognitive validity, that is, whether the items mean to respondents what they mean to the item designers. The instrument is the survey used in the final phase of the International Study of Principal…
Descriptors: Interviews, Validity, Pretesting, Surveys
Woolley, Michael E.; Bowen, Gary L.; Bowen, Natasha K. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2006
Cognitive pretesting (CP) is an interview methodology for pretesting the validity of items during the development of self-report instruments. This article reports on the development and evaluation of a systematic method to rate self-report item validity performance utilizing CP interview text data. Five raters were trained in the application of…
Descriptors: Measurement Techniques, Validity, Pretesting, Interviews
Peer reviewedTamir, Pinchas – International Journal of Science Education, 1999
Describes the validity and reliability of the Self-Report Knowledge Inventory (SRKI) and the Opportunity to Learn Inventory (OTLI) as self-assessment tools. Both instruments were found to be friendly, relatively easy to design, easy to respond to, easy to score, time-saving, non-threatening, valid, and reliable for comparing and making decisions…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Pretesting, Reliability, Science Instruction
Peer reviewedRichards, James M., Jr. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1976
Growth is estimated most accurately by procedures involving the pretest-posttest difference, and for practical purposes all estimates involving this difference have approximately equal accuracy. In particular, the simple difference between pretest and posttest scores seems about as accurate as any other estimate, easier to compute, and meaningful…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Comparative Analysis, Computer Programs, Correlation
Peer reviewedOles, Henry J. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1975
Although students quickly form reasonably lasting judgments of their instructors and courses they are also able to alter their judgments as warranted by changing situations. These findings appear to provide support for the validity of student evaluations. (Author/RC)
Descriptors: College Students, Course Evaluation, Higher Education, Pretesting
Trzasko, Joseph A. – 1975
This paper describes the proposed Assessment Center at Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry, New York. The center is intended to provide statistical and technical support for the Mercy College elementary education, special education, and speech and hearing departments in the areas of student assessment, student guidance, and program evaluation. Evaluation…
Descriptors: Competency Based Teacher Education, Educational Assessment, Evaluation, Pretesting
Bunker, Kerry A.; Cohen, Stephen L. – Training and Development Journal, 1978
After offering some possible explanations for the existing inadequacies in evaluating organizational training programs, the authors discuss several evaluation issues, particularly internal validity. Methods for overcoming evaluation inadequacies and the implications for better controlled evaluation designs are also covered. (EM)
Descriptors: Control Groups, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, On the Job Training
Woolley, Michael E.; Bowen, Gary L.; Bowen, Natasha K. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2004
In the context of the importance of valid self-report measures to research and evidence-based practice in social work, an argument-based approach to validity is presented and the concept of developmental validity is introduced. Cognitive development theories are applied to the self-report process of children, and cognitive pretesting is reviewed…
Descriptors: Validity, Pretesting, Social Work, Cognitive Development
Schutz, Robert W. – 1977
The measurement of change is such a broad topic that this article must limit its focus to a few specific subtopics. These specific topics include: longitudinal research design, attrition in research studies, the statistical analysis of difference scores, and the comparison of analysis of variance (ANOVA) and multivariate analysis of variance…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Analysis of Variance, Attrition (Research Studies), Behavior Change
PDF pending restorationCooley, Carl R.; And Others – BIA Education Research Bulletin, 1976
Comparisons were made of test scores derived from a sample of American Indian students attending grades 2 through 10, living in a Bureau of Indian Affairs dormitory, and enrolled either in an English as a Second Language Program (N=43) or in the regular school program (N=87) to determine ESL impact on Indian students' English vocabulary,…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Achievement Tests, American Indians, Comparative Analysis
