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Machlev, Moshe; Karlin, Nancy J. – College Teaching, 2017
The goal of this study was to research the frequency of the use of diverse types of humor in the college classroom for a possible association with student interest in course material. This relationship was studied using quantitative methods. Participants answered questions about their interest in course material and the type of humor that their…
Descriptors: Humor, Student Interests, Undergraduate Students, Statistical Analysis
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Stark, Marcella D. – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2017
This article describes the revision of Vespia, Heckman-Stone, and Delworth's (2002) Supervision Utilization Rating Form (SURF) and validation of the resulting Adapted SURF. The Adapted SURF is designed to provide supervisors with a cleaner measure of supervisee behaviors that contribute to effective supervision.
Descriptors: Counselors, Supervisors, Rating Scales, Test Validity
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Casanova, Oscar; Zarza, Francisco Javier; Orejudo, Santos – Music Education Research, 2018
This study aims to analyse differences in MPA (Musical Performance Anxiety) in students in five Spanish university-level music conservatories according to instrument type (solo or orchestra) and their academic year of enrolment (AYE). A sample of 476 students with a mean age of 22.59, enrolled in different specialties, responded to the K-MPAI…
Descriptors: Music Education, Anxiety, Undergraduate Students, Performance
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Khan, Shaista Irshad – European Journal of Educational Research, 2017
Critical thinking is seen as a highly desirable way of thinking that needs to be encouraged in all areas of higher education. However, it is not easy to conceptualise critical thinking in ways that can help in its development and in its assessment. Recent policy documents in Pakistan have laid emphasis on the development of critical thinking…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Higher Education, Thinking Skills, Foreign Countries
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Salifu, Inusah; Alagbela, Alaric A.; Gyamfi Ofori, Charles – Teaching Education, 2018
This research was conducted to examine the structural validity of the FIT-Choice (Factors Influencing Teaching Choice) scale in the Ghanaian context using teachers in pre-tertiary schools. A cohort of 354 teachers were selected to take part in a quantitative survey, and data were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career Choice, Teaching (Occupation), Teacher Surveys
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Biasutti, Michele; Frate, Sara – Environmental Education Research, 2017
This article describes the development and validation of the Attitudes toward Sustainable Development scale, a quantitative 20-item scale that measures Italian university students' attitudes toward sustainable development. A total of 484 undergraduate students completed the questionnaire. The validity and reliability of the scale was statistically…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Sustainable Development, Validity, Reliability
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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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Isik, Utku; Demirel, Mehmet – Online Submission, 2018
This study aimed to adapt to Turkish the measurement of work-leisure conflict developed by Tsaur et al. (2012) to measure work-leisure conflict and to present the causes and dimensions of the conflict and to develop a new study-leisure conflict scale for university students based on the items of this scale and to undertake reliability and validity…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Test Reliability, Test Validity, Conflict of Interest
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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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Sahin, Cengiz – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2018
The purpose of this study is to develop a valid and reliable measurement tool to determine the social media addictions of secondary school, high school and university students. 998 students participated in the study. 476 students from secondary schools, high schools and universities participated in the first application during which the…
Descriptors: Social Media, Addictive Behavior, Factor Analysis, Factor Structure
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Frappart, Sören; Moine, Mylène; Jmel, Saïd; Megalakaki, Olga – Environmental Education Research, 2018
The aim of the present study was to gain an insight into French young people's conceptual development regarding the greenhouse effect. Because this effect cannot be directly manipulated, we can assume that its conceptualization is mainly shaped through the sharing of information. Eighty French students from Grade Seven through to adulthood…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Concept Formation, Ecology, Environmental Education
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Mankin, Ariel; von der Embse, Nathaniel; Renshaw, Tyler L.; Ryan, Shannon – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2018
Previous research demonstrates that there is an association between effective teaching and teachers' positive psychological functioning at work. The current study explores the factor structure of the Teacher Subjective Wellbeing Questionnaire (TSWQ), which is a brief measure of two key dimensions of teachers' positive psychological functioning:…
Descriptors: Wellness, Questionnaires, Well Being, Factor Analysis
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Çetinkaya, Murat – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2018
The aim of the research is to improve a valid and reliable attributing scale which identifies authentic learning environments and evaluation attributes of the science teacher candidates. The study has been designed on the base of validity and reliability of the scale developed to evaluate the authentic learning environments. The research group is…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Preservice Teachers, Factor Analysis, Test Validity
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Nsonwu, Maura Busch; Welch-Brewer, Chiquitia; Heffron, Laurie Cook; Lemke, Melinda A.; Busch-Armendariz, Noel; Sulley, Caitlin; Cook, Sharon Warren; Lewis, Mary; Watson, Elizabeth; Moore, Wayne; Li, Jilan – Research on Social Work Practice, 2017
Objective: This study sought to develop and evaluate the psychometric properties of a tool designed to assess social work students' knowledge of and perceptions and attitudes toward human trafficking. To achieve this aim, the Perceptions, Knowledge, and Attitudes toward Human Trafficking Questionnaire (PKA-HTQ) was developed and its psychometric…
Descriptors: Social Work, Questionnaires, Test Construction, Test Validity
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Thompson, Allison; Cooper, Mick; Pauli, Regina – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2017
This study aimed to develop a self-report measure of pluralistic thought and practice. Following pilot development, a 23-item inventory was placed on an online survey site, and 474 participants satisfactorily completed the measure. Respondents were trainee or qualified therapists, predominantly female, based in the UK, and of a humanistic or…
Descriptors: Measurement Techniques, Measures (Individuals), Online Surveys, Allied Health Personnel
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