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Philipp Sterner; Kim De Roover; David Goretzko – Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2025
When comparing relations and means of latent variables, it is important to establish measurement invariance (MI). Most methods to assess MI are based on confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). Recently, new methods have been developed based on exploratory factor analysis (EFA); most notably, as extensions of multi-group EFA, researchers introduced…
Descriptors: Error of Measurement, Measurement Techniques, Factor Analysis, Structural Equation Models
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Branscum, Ann M.; Park, Anna E.; Bihm, Elson M.; Murphy, John J.; Furlong, Michael J. – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
The Social and Emotional Health Survey-Secondary (SEHS-S) is a widely used self-report measure of adolescents' strengths and positive mental health. However, the SEHS-S does not have a proxy (i.e., parent) informant version. A parent form of the SEHS-S could allow school psychologists to gather additional information about students' strengths for…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Mental Health, Parent Attitudes
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Maric, Danka; Fore, Grant A.; Nyarko, Samuel Cornelius; Varma-Nelson, Pratibha – International Journal of STEM Education, 2023
Background: The objective of this systematic review is to identify characteristics, trends, and gaps in measurement in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education research. Methods: We searched across several peer-reviewed sources, including a book, similar systematic reviews, conference proceedings, one online repository,…
Descriptors: Measurement Techniques, STEM Education, Educational Research, Literature Reviews
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Cater, Kaaryn; Hyde, Mervyn; Asbury, Elizabeth – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2022
Postsecondary students' well-being is closely linked to success, which has predominantly been viewed from institutional perspectives rather than student experience. Addressing this gap, students and educators at a New Zealand postsecondary institution identified elements of overall success. Two existing measures were integrated with the…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Measurement Techniques, College Students
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Bayne, Hannah B.; Dietlin, Olga; Michel, Rebecca; Impellizzeri, Jonathan; Tolentino, Lissette – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2022
The Political Identity and Relational Impact Scale (PIRI) is a self-report scale of personal and relational responses to political conflict. This article describes the development and exploratory factor analysis of the scale. The selected model consists of 30 items and a four-factor structure with high internal consistency.
Descriptors: Test Construction, Political Attitudes, Identification (Psychology), Interpersonal Relationship
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Uysal, Halil Tayyip; Köse, Aysen – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2021
Background: Self-assessments for adults who stutter are recommended as a primary evaluation tool for including their views on stuttering. Evaluating adults who stutter with self-assessment scales is important. However, there is no tool in the Turkish literature that provides this measurement. Aims: To develop the Turkish version of The Wright and…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Test Reliability, Test Construction, Turkish
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Naibert, Nicole; Barbera, Jack – Journal of Chemical Education, 2022
Student engagement is an important consideration when incorporating active learning activities into a classroom. To facilitate the large-scale assessment of students' engagement in activities, a survey measure must first be developed and evaluated. Therefore, the goal of this study was to create a self-report measure of student engagement for use…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Measures (Individuals), Learner Engagement, Chemistry
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Opozda-Suder, Sylwia; Grygiel, Pawel; Karteczka-Swietek, Kinga – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2023
The present article describes the development and validation of the Informational and Normative Conformity Scale (SKI-N), a brief self-report tool capturing adolescents' general propensity to adopt a conformist attitude, and the underlying motives for doing so. The presentation includes a description of scale construction and an assessment of the…
Descriptors: Social Behavior, High School Students, Test Construction, Test Validity
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Isitan, Sonnur – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2021
The purpose of this study was to adapt the Self Description Questionnaire for Preschoolers into Turkish and to examine the self-concept of Turkish preschoolers based on sex and age. A total of 420 preschoolers participated in the study. The viability of the six-factor solution for the Turkish sample was examined using the first- and second-order…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Questionnaires, Measurement Techniques, Preschool Children
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Barghaus, Katherine M.; Henderson, Cassandra M.; Fantuzzo, John W.; Brumley, Benjamin; Coe, Kristen; LeBoeuf, Whitney A.; Weiss, Emily M. – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: This study provides psychometric validation of the Classroom Engagement Scale (CES), a 14-item, teacher-report, formative assessment of behavioral engagement. It is currently used for all kindergarten children in a large, urban school district where it is embedded in the report card. Multi-level factor analysis revealed two…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Measurement Techniques, Kindergarten, Urban Schools
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Carpendale, Emma J.; Green, Melissa J.; Williams, Kate E.; Tzoumakis, Stacy; Carr, Vaughan J.; Laurens, Kristin R. – School Psychology, 2023
Childhood social and emotional competencies are recognized as teachable skills affecting well-being and developmental outcomes across the life span. This study sought to develop and validate a brief self-report measure of social-emotional competencies in middle childhood. The study used items from the 2015 Middle Childhood Survey, administered to…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Measurement Techniques, Social Emotional Learning, Competence
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Akaeze, Hope O.; Wu, Jamie Heng-Chieh; Lawrence, Frank R.; Weber, Everett P. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2023
This paper reports an investigation into the psychometric properties of the COR-Advantage1.5 (COR-Adv1.5) assessment tool, a criterion-referenced observation-based instrument designed to assess the developmental abilities of children from birth through kindergarten. Using data from 8534 children participating in a state-funded preschool program…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Evaluation Methods, Measures (Individuals), Measurement Techniques
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Selcuk Acar; Denis Dumas; Peter Organisciak; Kelly Berthiaume – Grantee Submission, 2024
Creativity is highly valued in both education and the workforce, but assessing and developing creativity can be difficult without psychometrically robust and affordable tools. The open-ended nature of creativity assessments has made them difficult to score, expensive, often imprecise, and therefore impractical for school- or district-wide use. To…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Elementary School Students, Artificial Intelligence, Measurement Techniques
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O'Connor, Cliodhna E. M.; Fitzgerald, Amanda – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2020
Social anxiety in adolescents oftentimes goes undetected because of the internalized nature of the disorder as well as adolescents' reluctance to discuss their mental health. A reliable and valid self-report measure for assessing symptoms of social anxiety in adolescents for use in an educational setting is particularly important because of the…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Anxiety Disorders, Interpersonal Competence, Adolescents
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Rezapour, Maysam; Khanjani, Narges; Mirzai, Moghadameh – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2020
School bullying is a significant public health problem and a widespread type of school violence. Empirically validated evaluation scales are needed for use in research and practice to explain the nature and scope of adolescent bullying. The current study investigated the multilevel factor structure and measurement invariance of the Olweus…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bullying, Student Behavior, Adolescents
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