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Karina Mostert; Clarisse van Rensburg; Reitumetse Machaba – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: This study examined the psychometric properties of intention to drop out and study satisfaction measures for first-year South African students. The factorial validity, item bias, measurement invariance and reliability were tested. Design/methodology/approach: A cross-sectional design was used. For the study on intention to drop out, 1,820…
Descriptors: Intention, Potential Dropouts, Student Satisfaction, Test Items
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Grove, Rachel; Hoekstra, Rosa A.; Wierda, Marlies; Begeer, Sander – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2017
Research has highlighted potential differences in the phenotypic and clinical presentation of autism spectrum conditions across sex. Furthermore, the measures utilised to evaluate autism spectrum conditions may be biased towards the male autism phenotype. It is important to determine whether these instruments measure the autism phenotype…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Factor Analysis, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Autism
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Renshaw, Tyler L.; Cook, Clayton R. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2018
The present studies report on the initial development and validation of the Youth Internalizing Problems Screener (YIPS), which is a 10-item self-report rating scale for assessing general internalizing problems and identifying depression and anxiety caseness within the context of school mental health screening. Results from Study 1 (N = 177)…
Descriptors: Scores, Screening Tests, Well Being, Mental Health
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Lawson, Michael A.; Alameda-Lawson, Tania; Byrnes, Edward – Research on Social Work Practice, 2017
Objectives: The purpose of this study was to examine the construct and predictive validity of the Adult-Adolescent Parenting Inventory (AAPI-2). Methods: The validity of the AAPI-2 was evaluated using multiple statistical methods, including exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, and latent class analysis. These analyses were…
Descriptors: Low Income, Factor Structure, Validity, Reliability
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Besnoy, Kevin D.; Dantzler, John; Besnoy, Lisa R.; Byrne, Caitlin – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2016
This study evaluated the construct validity of the Traits, Aptitudes, and Behaviors Scale (TABS). Data for this study were collected from two separate school districts across three different academic years in the Southeastern United States. Of the total sample (N = 2,330), 64.6% of the children were identified as African American, 29.0% as…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Factor Structure, Construct Validity, Personality Traits
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Ballantine, Joan; Guo, Xin; Larres, Patricia – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
This research provides new insights into the measurement of students' authorial identity and its potential for minimising the incidence of unintentional plagiarism by providing evidence about the psychometric properties of the Student Authorship Questionnaire (SAQ). Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses (EFA and CFA) are employed to…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Questionnaires, Generalization, Authors
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Friedlander, Myrna L.; Friedman, Michelle L.; Miller, Matthew J.; Ellis, Michael V.; Friedlander, Lee K.; Mikhaylov, Vadim G. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2010
The authors conducted 3 studies to develop and investigate the psychometric properties of the American Jewish Identity Scales (AJIS), a brief self-report measure that assesses cultural identification and religious identification. Study 1 assessed the content validity of the item pool using an expert panel. In Study 2, 1,884 Jewish adults completed…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Jews, Social Desirability, Content Validity