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Ubuz, Behiye; Aydinyer, Yurdagül – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2017
The current study aimed to construct a questionnaire that measures students' personality traits related to "striving for understanding" and "learning value of geometry" and then examine its psychometric properties. Through the use of multiple methods on two independent samples of 402 and 521 middle school students, two studies…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Test Construction, Questionnaires, Personality Traits
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Lathrop, Richard G.; Williams, Janice E. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1990
A Monte Carlo study of the validity of the Inverse Scree Test under conditions where true group membership is known was conducted. Fifty cluster analyses of each distribution involving 2 to 5 true groups of 3,000 simulated subjects were made. Implications for the data analyst are discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Cluster Analysis, Data Analysis, Group Membership, Monte Carlo Methods
Stricker, Lawrence J; And Others – 1972
This study's aim was to assess the validity of naive subjects' implicit personality theories, the correspondence among the theories, and the influence of social desirability on them. High school girls classified the items from the MMPI Psychopathic Deviate scale into clusters representing different traits. These clusters agreed closely with the…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Females, High School Seniors, High School Students