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Huelsman, Timothy J.; Gagnon, Sandra Glover; Kidder-Ashley, Pamela; Griggs, Marissa Swaim – Early Education and Development, 2014
Research Findings: Child temperament is an important construct, but its measurement has been marked by a number of weaknesses that have diminished the frequency with which it is assessed in practice. We address this problem by presenting the results of a quantitative construct validation study. We calculated validity indices by hypothesizing the…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Personality Traits, Student Characteristics, Stress Variables
Herman, Joan, Ed.; Hilton, Margaret, Ed. – National Academies Press, 2017
The importance of higher education has never been clearer. Educational attainment--the number of years a person spends in school--strongly predicts adult earnings, as well as health and civic engagement. Yet relative to other developed nations, educational attainment in the United States is lagging, with young Americans who heretofore led the…
Descriptors: College Students, Academic Achievement, Student Evaluation, Interpersonal Competence
Bonitz, Verena Sylvia – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The goal of this experimental study was to evaluate the influence of course type, instructor and student gender, and student individual differences (domain-specific vocational interests and confidence, personality, and gender role attitudes) on student evaluation of teaching (SET) scores. A sample of 610 college students (372 female) rated…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, College Students, Student Attitudes, Student Characteristics
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Maslovaty, Nava; Cohen, Arie; Furman, Sari – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2008
The article presents a multi-faceted theory of "ideal high school student" traits. The trait system, as defined by several theories, is a translation of the teachers' belief system into educational objectives. The study focused on Bloom's taxonomies and the structural validity of its principles, using Similarity Structure Analysis. Aware of the…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Validity, Classification, High School Students
Dee, Thomas; West, Martin – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2008
Although recent evidence suggests that non-cognitive skills such as engagement matter for academic and economic success, there is little evidence on how key educational inputs affect the development of these skills. We present a re-analysis of follow-up data from the Project STAR class-size experiment and find evidence that early-grade class-size…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Research Design, Class Size, Outcomes of Education
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Lemire, Dave; Gray, Jerry – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2003
Explains that the concern of learning style research is to identify student characteristics, which are related to instructional methods and learning outcomes in educationally significant ways. Demonstrates that styles as measured by the Ego Inventory Instrument have some desirable reliability and validity qualities. Proposes that in addition to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Cultural Context, Gender Issues, Higher Education
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Peng, Samuel S.; Jaffe, Jay – National Center for Education Statistics, 1980
The primary purpose of this study is to develop composite variables for several sets of items included in the Second and Third Follow-Up Questionnaires of the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 (NLS). The need for this study is derived from the following considerations: (1) reduction of data dimensions, and (2) provision…
Descriptors: Test Items, Questionnaires, High School Students, Student Characteristics