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Süleyman Avci; Mustafa Özgenel – International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2024
The aim of this research is to adapt the scales "Homework Management, Homework Effort, Teacher Homework Involvement, Teacher Feedback and Parental Homework Support" into Turkish. The research data were collected from 1,698 secondary school students in grades 5 to 8. The sample was divided into four subgroups and explanatory factor…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Homework, Teacher Participation, Parent Participation
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Inman, Richard A.; Costa, Pedro J. C.; Moreira, Paulo A. S. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2023
The study aimed to test the psychometric properties of a Portuguese adaptation of the "Adolescent Students' Basic Psychological Needs at School Scale" (ASBPNSS). For this, we used data from a sample of eighth graders (N = 1648; M[[subscript age] = 14.1 years; 46.9% girls) from Portugal. Cronbach alpha and omega coefficients showed the…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Psychological Needs
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Babarovic, Toni; Blažev, Mirta; Šverko, Iva; Tracey, Terence J. G. – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2023
The study aimed to develop and evaluate the psychometrical properties of a new brief measure of gender stereotyping career attitudes. Participants were 222 early and 196 middle adolescents from Croatia. The Vocational Gender Stereotype Attitudes Scale (VGSA) consists of 12 items that represent masculine, feminine and gender-balanced activities…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Psychometrics, Sex Stereotypes, Test Validity
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Tan Zhang – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2024
Derived from the Expectancy-Value Theory (EVT) model, cost has drawn scholarly interest for being predicative of avoidance motivation. The study is an effort to develop and validate an instrument to measure students' perceived costs in physical education. Through literature review and student interviews, a draft of 39 items under seven domains was…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Test Validity, Test Construction, Student Motivation
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Harlan, Jessica; Van Haneghan, James – Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research, 2020
As part of a longitudinal study of the development and implementation of a middle school engineering design curriculum, we have used an occupational values subscale of the Assessing Men and Women in Engineering (AWE) project's Engineering version of the Core Survey for Middle School-Aged Participants to measure student occupational interest in…
Descriptors: Engineering, Technical Occupations, Middle School Students, Values
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Alnasraween, Moen Salman; Almughrabi, Ayat Mohammad; Ammari, Raeda Mofid; Alkaramneh, Mohammad Saleh – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2021
The purpose of this study is to construct a digital culture test in light of the Item Response Theory and to investigate its psychometric properties. The study sample consisted of six hundred fifty (650) male and female students in the eighth grade from the Directorate of Education and Teaching of Salt District. To obtain the results, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technological Literacy, Tests, Psychometrics
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Sharma, Anu; Pape, Stephen J.; Templin, Jonathan – Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2019
The Modeling Self-Efficacy Scale was developed to measure students' confidence in understanding and solving modeling tasks. The scale was administered to 225 eighth- and ninth-grade students. Participants read modeling tasks adapted from Programme for International Student Assessment's 2003 problem-solving assessment and rated their confidence on…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Modeling (Psychology), Self Efficacy, Junior High School Students
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Parada, Roberto H. – Educational & Child Psychology, 2019
Aim: To evaluate the psychometric properties of a new measure of school belonging. Rationale: The sense of belonging to the school (organisation) as opposed to individuals within a school (peers) plays a significant part in pupils' behaviour and wellbeing. To date, few psychometrically robust, theoretically driven and brief scales exist.…
Descriptors: School Role, Attachment Behavior, Student School Relationship, Psychometrics
Nebraska Department of Education, 2023
In Fall and Winter 2022-2023, the NSCAS assessments were administered in ELA and mathematics for grades 3-8. In Spring 2022-2023, the NSCAS assessments were administered in English language arts (ELA) and mathematics for grades 3-8 and in science for grades 5 and 8. The purposes of the NSCAS assessments are to measure and report Nebraska students'…
Descriptors: English, Language Arts, Student Centered Learning, Mathematics Tests
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Ribeiro, Olívia; Santos, António J.; Freitas, Miguel; Rosado, António; Rubin, Kenneth H. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2019
The present study assesses the factor structure, psychometric adequacy, and invariance across sex and age of the Relational Provisions Loneliness Questionnaire (RPLQ). Discriminant validity with an external criterion was also tested. In a sample of Portuguese adolescents, from 7th to 9th grade (N = 817), Confirmatory Factor Analyses (CFA) were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychological Patterns, Adolescents, Questionnaires
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Oon, Pey Tee; Subramaniam, R. – International Journal of Science Education, 2018
We report here on a comparative study of middle school students' attitudes towards science involving three countries: England, Singapore and the U.S.A. Complete attitudinal data sets from TIMSS (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study) 2011 were used, thus giving a very large sample size (N = 20,246), compared to other studies in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Middle School Students, Student Attitudes
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Meneses, Alejandra; Uccelli, Paola; Santelices, María Verónica; Ruiz, Marcela; Acevedo, Daniela; Figueroa, Javiera – Reading Research Quarterly, 2018
Although literacy achievement has improved in Chile, adolescents' underperformance in reading comprehension is still a serious concern. In English, core academic-language skills (CALS) have been found to significantly predict reading comprehension, even controlling for academic vocabulary knowledge. CALS are high-utility language skills that…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Foreign Countries, Academic Discourse, Reading Comprehension
Bakirtas, Hülya; Tonga, Deniz – Online Submission, 2016
In the development of the national economies, the economy education in school curricula has an important place, because students may not have received the necessary economic realities and requirements. For that reason, it is necessary to determine the perception of wants and needs of children. In this study, it was aimed to develop a scale for…
Descriptors: Preferences, Student Needs, Student Interests, Test Construction
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Renshaw, Tyler L. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2016
The present study examines the psychometric properties of the Social and Emotional Health Survey (SEHS), which is a 32-item self-report behavior rating scale for assessing youths' social-emotional competencies, with a small sample (N = 77) of academically at-risk students attending a limited-residency charter school. This study is the first to…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Adolescent Attitudes, At Risk Students, Educationally Disadvantaged
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Binfet, John Tyler; Gadermann, Anne M.; Schonert-Reichl, Kimberly A. – Psychology in the Schools, 2016
In this study, we sought to create and validate a brief measure to assess students' perceptions of kindness in school. Participants included 1,753 students in Grades 4 to 8 attending public schools in a large school district in southern British Columbia. The School Kindness Scale (SKS) demonstrated a unidimensional factor structure and adequate…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Prosocial Behavior, Psychometrics, Public Schools
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