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Direct linkJinhyun Cho – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This article examines interpreters' dilemmas and choices in the case of home-based aged care assessments of elderly migrants in Australia. Based on one-on-one interviews with professional interpreters, it specifically explores tensions between power, norms and interpreters' own positionings on intercultural communication problems. Data analysis…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Translation
Evers, Arne; McCormick, Carina M.; Hawley, Leslie R.; Muñiz, José; Balboni, Giulia; Bartram, Dave; Boben, Dusica; Egeland, Jens; El-Hassan, Karma; Fernández-Hermida, José R.; Fine, Saul; Frans, Örjan; Gintiliené, Grazina; Hagemeister, Carmen; Halama, Peter; Iliescu, Dragos; Jaworowska, Aleksandra; Jiménez, Paul; Manthouli, Marina; Matesic, Krunoslav; Michaelsen, Lars; Mogaji, Andrew; Morley-Kirk, James; Rózsa, Sándor; Rowlands, Lorraine; Schittekatte, Mark; Sümer, H. Canan; Suwartono, Tono; Urbánek, Tomáš; Wechsler, Solange; Zelenevska, Tamara; Zanev, Svetoslav; Zhang, Jianxin – International Journal of Testing, 2017
On behalf of the International Test Commission and the European Federation of Psychologists' Associations a world-wide survey on the opinions of professional psychologists on testing practices was carried out. The main objective of this study was to collect data for a better understanding of the state of psychological testing worldwide. These data…
Descriptors: Testing, Attitudes, Surveys, Psychologists
Ho, Sammy K.; Chan, Edmund S. – Cogent Education, 2017
This study aims to investigate the psychometric properties of the revised multidimensional scale of perceived social support (R-MSPSS) for Chinese school teachers. A questionnaire comprising the R-MSPSS and other psychological measures was administered to a sample of 539 school teachers in Hong Kong. A series of confirmatory factor analysis was…
Descriptors: Multidimensional Scaling, Social Support Groups, Program Validation, Psychometrics
Liddle, Ian; Carter, Greg F. A. – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2015
The Stirling Children's Well-being Scale (SCWBS) was developed by the Stirling Council Educational Psychology Service (UK) as a holistic, positively worded measure of emotional and psychological well-being in children aged eight to 15 years. Drawing on current theories of well-being and Positive Psychology, the aim was to provide a means of…
Descriptors: Well Being, Emotional Development, Psychological Needs, Psychological Testing
Download full textTrapp, William J. – Online Submission, 2007
This project provides a list of criteria for which the contents of interpretive guides written for customized, criterion-referenced tests can be evaluated. The criteria are based on the "Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing" (1999) and examine the content breadth of interpretive guides. Interpretive guides written for…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Mathematics Tests, Evaluation Criteria, Psychological Testing
Peer reviewedKing, M. G.; Campbell, I. M. – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1986
Describes the KAS scale, a new composite anxiety scale that comprises items on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-168 (MMPI-168), a popular short form of the MMPI. Relevant normative statistics and the KAS scale relationship with other MMPI scales are discussed. (Author/KS)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Diagnostic Tests, Norms, Personality Assessment
Crosby-Muilenburg, Corryn – 1988
This bibliography provides annotations on over 165 testing sources in the collection of the Humboldt State University (California) Library. Focus is on psychological and educational tests. Information resources are grouped according to information need, including sources of tests or information about tests, and by subject. The Library does not…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Educational Testing, Library Materials, Online Systems
Peer reviewedBedrosian, Richard C.; Beck, Aaron T. – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 1979
Hopelessness seems to account for the bulk of the relationship between depression and suicidal intent. The Scale for Suicide Ideation seems to show promise as a predictive instrument, as a dependent variable in research on treatment efficacy, and as a tool for clinical assessment of suicide potential. (Author)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Emotional Problems, Interviews, Patients
Garrison, Wayne M.; And Others – 1978
The Tennessee Self Concept Scale (TSCS) was administered to 109 students newly enrolled at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf. Consistent with earlier reserch literature, test results indicated that the deaf students had lower levels of self esteem than did the normative hearing population. Subsequent interviews with 30 members of the…
Descriptors: College Students, Deafness, Higher Education, Psychological Testing
Flint, Betty M. – 1974
The Flint Infant Security Scale measures an infant's behavior in order to establish the child's ability to accept dependence upon their caretaker and to put forth effort when the occasion calls for it. Both these aspects of behavior are reflections of the child's sense of security and feeling of self-worth. The Scale, consisting of the Manual and…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Infant Behavior, Parent Child Relationship, Preschool Tests
Peer reviewedGiambra, Leonard M. – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1980
The 344 items of the Imaginal Processes Inventory plus age were intercorrelated for 1300 subjects. This intercorrelation matrix was subjected to a principal components analysis; 53 principal components then were rotated to a Varimax solution. Results of the factor analysis are given in terms of the meaningful interpreted components. (Author)
Descriptors: Adults, Affective Measures, Behavior Rating Scales, Factor Analysis
Peer reviewedMiller, William R.; Lief, Harold I. – Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy, 1979
Presents the Sex Knowledge and Attitude Test (SKAT), designed to measure knowledge, attitudes and degree of experience in a variety of sexual behaviors, and to be used as a teaching and research instrument. (Author)
Descriptors: Adults, Measurement Techniques, Psychological Testing, Psychometrics
Abbott, Marilyn L. – Language Testing, 2007
In this article, I describe a practical application of the Roussos and Stout (1996) multidimensional analysis framework for interpreting group performance differences on an ESL reading proficiency test. Although a variety of statistical methods have been developed for flagging test items that function differentially for equal ability examinees…
Descriptors: Test Bias, Test Items, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Peer reviewedErwin, T. Dary; Delworth, Ursula – NASPA Journal, 1980
Describes the construction of an instrument to measure identity, primarily based on Chickering's approach, i.e., the Erwin Identity Scale (EIS), designed to measure the three main concepts comprising identity: confidence, sexual identity, and conceptions about body and appearance. (Author)
Descriptors: College Students, Confidence Testing, Identification (Psychology), Personality Measures
Silver, Rawley – 1993
There is an urgent need for early identification of depressed individuals so that they may be found and helped in time. Childhood depression is often masked by problems in school, and as a result, these children usually go undiagnosed or misdiagnosed. It has been found that drawings by depressed patients have distinct patterns which are rated…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Disability Identification, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Disturbances
