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Yi-Jen Lu; Bei-Lu Tseng; Guo-Ching Huang – Youth & Society, 2024
This study addressed the issue of school alienation (SA) among high school students in Taiwan; SA is believed to contribute to dropout, violence, gangs, and deviant behavior. To measure SA, we propose a four-construct model in this study, comprising powerlessness, normlessness, meaninglessness, and social isolation. Using two studies, an SA scale…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Rating Scales, Alienation
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Flahive, Mon-hsin Wang; Chuang, Ying-Chih; Li, Chien-Mo – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2011
The Piers-Harris Children's Self-Concept Scale-Second Edition (Piers-Harris 2) was designed to measure self-concept among children and adolescents. This study aimed to assess the reliability and validity of the scores of the Chinese version of the Piers-Harris 2 (Chinese Piers-Harris). The Chinese Piers-Harris 2 was administered to 243 Taiwanese…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Test Validity, Rating Scales, Self Concept Measures
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Wang, Wen-Chung; Chen, Hsueh-Chu – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2004
As item response theory (IRT) becomes popular in educational and psychological testing, there is a need of reporting IRT-based effect size measures. In this study, we show how the standardized mean difference can be generalized into such a measure. A disattenuation procedure based on the IRT test reliability is proposed to correct the attenuation…
Descriptors: Test Reliability, Rating Scales, Sample Size, Error of Measurement