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Stephen L. Wright; Michael A. Jenkins-Guarnieri – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2024
The current study sought out to advance the Social Self-Efficacy and Social Outcome Expectations scale using multiple approaches to scale development. Data from 583 undergraduate students were used in two scale development approaches: Classic Test Theory (CTT) and Item Response Theory (IRT). Confirmatory factor analysis suggested a 2-factor…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Expectation, Self Efficacy, Item Response Theory
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Lane, Kathleen Lynne; Oakes, Wendy Peia; Cantwell, Emily D.; Menzies, Holly Mariah; Schatschneider, Christopher; Lambert, Warren; Common, Eric Alan – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2017
We report results of an exploratory validation study of the "Student Risk Screening Scale-Internalizing and Externalizing" (SRSS-IE) applied with the first sample of middle and high school students from nine middle and three high schools from three states. The "Student Risk Screening Scale" (SRSS) was modified to broaden the…
Descriptors: Scores, Psychometrics, Evidence, Middle Schools
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Awofala, Adeneye O. A.; Arigbabu, Abayomi A.; Fatade, Alfred O.; Awofala, Awoyemi A. – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2013
Introduction: The stability of the achievement goal orientation across different contexts has been a source of further research since the new millennium. Through theoretically-driven and empirically-based analyses, this study investigated the psychometric properties of the Elliot and McGregor 2x2 framework for achievement goal questionnaire within…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Goal Orientation, Questionnaires, Foreign Countries
Yoon, So Yoon – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Working under classical test theory (CTT) and item response theory (IRT) frameworks, this study investigated psychometric properties of the Revised Purdue Spatial Visualization Tests: Visualization of Rotations (Revised PSVT:R). The original version, the PSVT:R was designed by Guay (1976) to measure spatial visualization ability in…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Test Bias, Guessing (Tests), Construct Validity
Thomas, Julia Anne – 1985
A sample of 234 fifth- and 259 sixth-grade students scaled the items of the Piers-Harris, Tennessee, Coopersmith, and Lipsett self-concept measures. The scaling of the Piers-Harris and the Tennessee inventories was examined in reference to their subscales. The present technique placed items on a bivariate plane of two orthogonal dimensions…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Factor Structure, Intermediate Grades, Orthogonal Rotation
Hofmann, Rich; Sherman, Larry – 1991
Using data from 135 sixth-, seventh-, and eighth-graders between 11 and 15 years old attending a middle school in a suburban Southwest Ohio school district, two hypothesized models of the factor structures for the Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory were tested. One model represents the original Coopersmith factor structure, and the other model is…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Algorithms, Chi Square, Factor Structure