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Nguyen, Son Van; Habók, Anita – MEXTESOL Journal, 2022
This study provides evidence of the validity and reliability of a self-efficacy questionnaire in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in a Vietnamese sample of university students. A total of 656 non-English-major students completed the questionnaire in an online format. SPSS version 24, SPSS AMOS, and SmartPLS 3 were employed to analyze the data.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Efficacy, Questionnaires, Second Language Learning
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Salahi, Fariba; Farahian, Majid – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2021
The purpose of the current study was to develop and validate a scale to assess the inhibitors to reflective writing of Iranian English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers. The other aim of this study was to assess the reliability of the questionnaire. To prepare the first item pool of the questionnaire, the researchers reviewed the previous…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Questionnaires, Construct Validity, Test Reliability
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Sheikhbanooie, Milad; Farahian, Majid – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2022
Purpose: Since reflectivity has a crucial role in education, it has attracted researchers' attention in the last decades. As such, the present study aimed to construct and validate a questionnaire to assess the barriers to reflective practices of Iranian ESP (English for Specific Purposes) instructors. Furthermore, this study aimed to investigate…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Chauvin, Bruno; Demont, Elisabeth; Rohmer, Odile – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2018
Positive judgments on the Self are good predictors of academic achievement. It could be useful to benefit from an instrument able to assess how pupils elaborate self-judgments. So far, such a tool does not exist. The purpose of the present study was to develop a self-report measure of social judgment for children at school (the School Social…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Predictor Variables, Measurement Techniques, Questionnaires
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Østerlie, Ove; Løhre, Audhild; Haugan, Gørill – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2019
One of the main aims of the school subject physical education (PE) is to promote a lifelong healthy lifestyle. The expectancy-value theory represents an essential theoretical perspective to examine and understand adolescents' learning and motivation in PE. Based on this theory, the Expectancy-Value Questionnaire (EVQ) measures students'…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Student Attitudes, Construct Validity, Foreign Countries
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Bagheri, Mohammad – TESL-EJ, 2020
The present study reports the process of developing and validating a self-report questionnaire that can be employed to examine technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) perceptions of Iranian EFL teachers. To conduct the study, a survey instrument consisting of items adapted from two existing TPACK-based survey instruments was generated.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Likert Scales, Test Construction, Construct Validity
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Rezaeian, Mahbubeh; Seyyedrezaei, Seyyed Hassan; Barani, Ghasem; Seyyedrezaei, Zari Sadat – International Journal of Language Testing, 2020
Individuals are controlled by tests in every advanced society when they want to be admitted in educational courses, to proceed from one stage to the next, or to be given a certificate (Shohamy, 2001b). Accordingly, the present study was carried out to construct and validate educational, social, and psychological consequences questionnaires of…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Factor Analysis
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Slaten, Christopher D.; Elison, Zachary M.; Deemer, Eric D.; Hughes, Hayley A.; Shemwell, Daniel A. – Journal of Experimental Education, 2018
Although belonging in K-12 school settings has been abundantly researched and clearly defined, at the university level the research and construct definition is still in its infancy (Tovar & Simon, 2010). The present study sought to develop and validate an instrument measuring university belonging--the University Belonging Questionnaire (UBQ).…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Likert Scales, Test Construction, Construct Validity
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Soto, Christian; Gutierrez de Blume, Antonio P.; Asún, Rodrigo; Jacovina, Matthew; Vásquez, Claudio – Frontline Learning Research, 2018
The purpose of this research endeavor was to develop and validate a new measurement tool predicated on previous research to assess learners' metacomprehension during reading. In two separate studies with Chilean undergraduate students (N = 923), we demonstrate the versatility and utility of our proposed Metacomprehension Inventory (MI). In Study…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Foreign Countries, Factor Structure, Correlation
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Astretsov, D. A.; Leontiev, D. A. – Russian Education & Society, 2016
The article discusses the concept of internal dialogue and how it is understood in various schools of psychological research, including both Russia and abroad. The authors briefly investigate how the concept was understood by Mikhail Bakhtin, Lev Vygotsky, G.M. Kuchinskii, and Hubert Hermans. The "Internal Dialogical Activity Scale"…
Descriptors: Psychological Studies, Foreign Countries, Construct Validity, Reflection
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McChesney, Katrina; Aldridge, Jill M. – Teacher Development, 2018
Schools and education systems are being challenged to improve the evaluation of teacher professional development, yet there is a lack of practical tools for doing so. This article describes the development and validation of a new instrument to assess teachers' perceptions of the impact of professional development. This instrument, designed to be…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Program Evaluation, Professional Training, Questionnaires
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Elnaz Oladrostam; Abbasali Rezaee – MEXTESOL Journal, 2019
Positive psychology, which has emerged as a major force since the turn of the 21st century, focuses on the constructive effects of positive emotions (Fredrickson, 2001; Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi, 2014). The purpose of this study was to establish a measure of positive psychology in language learning. To this aim, the researchers developed a…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Psychology, Factor Analysis
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Berger, Jean-Louis; Karabenick, Stuart A. – Educational Assessment, 2016
Despite their significant contributions to research on self-regulated learning, those favoring online and trace approaches have questioned the use of self-report to assess learners' use of learning strategies. An important rejoinder to such criticisms consists of examining the validity of self-report items. The present study was designed to assess…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Metacognition, Learning Strategies, Self Disclosure (Individuals)
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Chrysos, Michail – European Journal of Educational Research, 2017
This study aims to present the design and pilot testing procedures of the two specific self-report questionnaires were used to measure the two key aspects of reading motivation, self-efficacy and intrinsic motivation in the field of literary (narrative) reading, and the partial factors that jointly shape them. These instruments were outlined in…
Descriptors: Literacy, Reading Motivation, Construct Validity, Reliability
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Gu, Peter Yongqi – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2018
This article reports on the updating and validation of a questionnaire for vocabulary learning strategies. An English as a second language (ESL) version of the "Vocabulary Learning Questionnaire" (VLQ), first published in Gu and Johnson (1996), was created based on its latest version. Two response formats were piloted, that is, a paper…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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