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Adamu, Gishua Garba; Dawha, Josphine Musa; Kamar, Tiamiyu Salihu – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
Mechanical Engineering Trade Skills Assessment Instrument (METSAI) is aimed at determining the extent to which students have acquired practical skills before graduation that will enable them get employment for sustainable job security in Yobe state. The study employed instrumentation research design. The populations of the study were 23 mechanical…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Test Construction, Program Validation, Skill Analysis
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Karaguven, M. Hulya Unal – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2012
The current study evaluated the psychometric evidence of Turkish form of the Academic Motivation Scale. The scale was based on the tenets of self-determination theory. It was designed to assess an individual's academic motivation if intrinsically or extrinsically driven with 28 questions. University form of the scale was translated into Turkish…
Descriptors: Motivation, Measures (Individuals), Psychometrics, Correlation
Peifer, Nancy – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to contribute to the academic discussion regarding the validity of Multiple Intelligences (MI) theory through focusing on the validity of an important construct embedded in the theory, that of congruence between instructional style and preferred MI style for optimal learning. Currently there is insufficient empirical…
Descriptors: Multiple Intelligences, Psychometrics, Test Construction, Program Validation
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Woodman, Geoffrey F.; Luck, Steven J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2007
In many theories of cognition, researchers propose that working memory and perception operate interactively. For example, in previous studies researchers have suggested that sensory inputs matching the contents of working memory will have an automatic advantage in the competition for processing resources. The authors tested this hypothesis by…
Descriptors: Memory, Hypothesis Testing, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Measurement