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Yelpaze, Ismail; Güler, Deniz – International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2018
The aim of this study is to adapt the attitude scale towards asylum seekers and refugees to Turkish culture and to examine the relation of university students' attitudes towards asylum seekers to certain personality traits. The study was conducted with the participation of 340 university students. The attitude scales for both asylum seekers and…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Refugees, Altruism
Ali Eryilmaz; Ahmet Basal – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Learning does not happen immediately; it takes time and effort. Thus, patience is a virtue required for any type of successful learning. Given the increasing prevalence of online learning, understanding students' patience is necessary to devise ways to sustain it. In this study, we define online learning patience as the ability to steadily…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Electronic Learning, Student Attitudes, Personality Traits
Zhang, Jinglu; Browne, William J. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2023
Argumentation plays a significant role in science as a scientific practice in which knowledge is constructed, evaluated, and modified. Scientific argumentation (SA) is thus a promising activity for students to pursue in order to think and act like scientists and to enhance their understanding of science. Considering the impact that assessments…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Science Instruction, Persuasive Discourse
Simsek, Nil Didem; Sontay, Fatih – International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2021
This study is an attitude scale development study that reveals high school students (9th, 10th, 11th grades) literary curiosity. It is thought that students with high literary curiosity have a reading culture. Reading culture is a reading level reached by transforming reading into a habit and critical reading skill. The scale created for this…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Test Construction, Student Attitudes, Reading Motivation
Noyens, D.; van Daal, T.; Coertjens, L.; Van Petegem, P.; Donche, V. – Higher Education Research and Development, 2020
Supporting first-year students to adjust to their new academic environment is a crucial task in higher education. Investigating students' perceptions of fit between secondary and higher education could give higher education institutions valuable information for student feedback and support, when captured in a reliable and valid way. This study…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Test Validity, Personality Theories, Student Attitudes
Kartal, Gulten – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2021
The main purpose of this study is to establish a valid and reliable Turkish version of the Transactional Presence Scale. The study also aims to determine whether learners' personality structures, age, sex, previous experiences of distance education and perceptions of transactional presence are significant predictors of their perceived learning.…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Test Reliability, Attitude Measures, Student Attitudes
Taconis, Ruurd; de Putter-Smits, Lesley G. M.; Henry, Steven; den Brok, Perry J.; Beijaard, Douwe – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2010
Forming a science-oriented identity is considered a process underlying both interest and achievement in science education. A questionnaire is developed for describing "identities as learners" and evaluating their science orientedness. The instrument (k = 65) focuses on cognitive aspects. An internal coherence of .88 was found. Five…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Test Construction, Test Validity, Test Reliability
Pracana, Clara, Ed.; Wang, Michael, Ed. – Online Submission, 2019
This book contains a compilation of papers presented at the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends (InPACT) 2019, organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (W.I.A.R.S.). Modern psychology offers a large range of scientific fields where it can be applied. The goal of understanding individuals and…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Cognitive Psychology
Peters, Jay; Nason, Carey; Turner, Winston M. – Social Work Research, 2007
The high prevalence and serious consequences associated with rape makes its prevention an important social work goal. Rape prevention necessitates understanding the attitudes and personality characteristics of actual and potential rapists. Within the research on attitudinal correlates of rape, hypermasculinity consistently emerges as one of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychometrics, Prevention, Personality Traits

Schaefer, Charles E.; Bridges, Carolyn I. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1970
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Creativity, Grade 5, Individual Characteristics
Chamorro-Premuzic, Tomas; Furnham, Adrian; Dissou, Georgia; Heaven, Patrick – Learning & Individual Differences, 2005
This paper reports data on the psychometric relationship between personality traits (Big Five), and preference for particular assessment methods in an Australian sample of University students (N=125). Reliability analysis showed that participants tended to have consistent attitudes toward assessment methods, across disciplines (e.g., History,…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Intelligence, Personality Traits, College Students
Benishek, Lois A.; Feldman, Jill M.; Shipon, R. Wolf; Mecham, Stacy D.; Lopez, Frederick G. – Journal of Career Assessment, 2005
Researchers have a long-standing interest in better understanding why some students avoid challenging academic course work at the risk of harming their academic standing, whereas others are willing to pursue these types of challenges. The Academic Hardiness Scale (AHS) was developed to better understand characteristics that may differentiate these…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Psychometrics, Test Validity, Test Reliability

Fiske, Donald W.; Kuncel, Ruth Boutin
After taking a personality test, subjects reported their reactions to being tested. Reactions were diverse, even in the same subject. Free responses to 10 questions were coded into 16 categories within five broad groups. Desire for information about the test and about self, and criticism of testing were very prevalent; criticisms of self and…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Attitude Measures, Catalogs, Evaluation Methods
Berrenberg, Joy L. – 1987
The development and validation of a shortened and revised version of the Belief in Personal Control Scale (BPCS-RS) are described. Like the original 85-item version of the BPCS, the BPCS-RS measures three empirically derived factors (a belief in general external control of outcomes, an exaggerated belief in personal control of outcomes, and a…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Comparative Testing, Factor Structure, Graduate Students
Greenberger, Ellen – 1969
This project has been directed towards the development of procedures for assessing children's curiosity. Better procedures are needed to reach one of the long-range goals of Center Program III: an understanding of the relationship of curiosity to academic achievement and other cognitive skills, styles and motives. This paper reviews briefly some…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Arousal Patterns, Attention Span, Children
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