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Faculty's Academic Intellectual Leadership: The Intermediary Relations with Universities' Organizational Components
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Uslu, Baris; Arslan, Hasan – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2018
In line with 'the entrepreneurial university' discourse, managerialism and performative culture brought new expectations to faculty such as developing online programmes/courses, carrying out training for professionals, obtaining research funds, leading projects in cooperation with industry/business, collaborating with colleagues from various…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Questionnaires, Leadership, Universities
Seeing Perfectly Fitting Factor Models That Are Causally Misspecified: Understanding That Close-Fitting Models Can Be Worse
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Hayduk, Leslie – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2014
Researchers using factor analysis tend to dismiss the significant ill fit of factor models by presuming that if their factor model is close-to-fitting, it is probably close to being properly causally specified. Close fit may indeed result from a model being close to properly causally specified, but close-fitting factor models can also be seriously…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Goodness of Fit, Factor Structure, Structural Equation Models
Effects of Background Variables of Early Childhood Teachers on Their Concerns about Inclusion: The Mediation Role of Confidence in Teaching
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Park, Mi-Hwa; Dimitrov, Dimiter M.; Park, Do-Yong – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2018
This study examines concerns of early childhood teachers about inclusive education (IE) in infant through 3rd-grade classrooms in the United States and the associated role of teachers' background variables. The data consisted of the responses of 679 early childhood teachers on a survey about their concerns. The data analysis supported the presence…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers, Inclusion, Teacher Effectiveness
Stereotype Threat Vulnerability: A Psychometric Investigation of the Social Identities and Attitudes Scale
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Smith, Leann V.; Cokley, Kevin – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2016
The authors investigated the psychometric properties of the Social Identities and Attitudes Scale developed by Picho and Brown, which captures an individual's vulnerability to Stereotype Threat effects. Confirmatory factor analyses and group invariance tests conducted on a diverse sample of 516 college students revealed adequate reliability and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Attitude Measures, Likert Scales, Psychometrics
The Short Personality Inventory for DSM-5 and Its Conjoined Structure with the Common Five-Factor Model
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Kajonius, Petri J. – International Journal of Testing, 2017
Research is currently testing how the new maladaptive personality inventory for DSM (PID-5) and the well-established common Five-Factor Model (FFM) together can serve as an empirical and theoretical foundation for clinical psychology. The present study investigated the official short version of the PID-5 together with a common short version of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personality Measures, Personality Traits, Clinical Diagnosis
The Relationship between an Online Synchronous Learning Environment and Knowledge Acquisition Skills and Traits: The Blackboard Collaborate Experience
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Politis, John; Politis, Denis – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2016
Online learning is becoming more attractive to perspective students because it offers them greater accessibility, convenience and flexibility to study at a reduced cost. While these benefits may attract prospective learners to embark on an online learning environment there remains little empirical evidence relating the skills and traits of…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Synchronous Communication, Integrated Learning Systems, Online Courses