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As a Potential Source of Error, Measuring the Tendency of University Students to Copy the Answers: A Scale Development Study
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Demir, Ergul – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2018
Purpose: The answer-copying tendency has the potential to detect suspicious answer patterns for prior distributions of statistical detection techniques. The aim of this study is to develop a valid and reliable measurement tool as a scale in order to observe the tendency of university students' copying of answers. Also, it is aimed to provide…
Descriptors: College Students, Cheating, Test Construction, Student Behavior
Best Practices for Competency Development and Assessment in Higher Education
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Redondo Duarte, Sara; Learreta Ramos, Begoña; Ruiz Rosillo, María Auxiliadora; Alperstedt, Cristiane; Hazé, Emmanuël – International Journal of Pedagogies and Learning, 2015
The main objective of this article is to present the results of a study aimed at determining, classifying and evaluating practices of interest for general competency development and assessment in undergraduate programmes. The study encompassed the following phases: (1) focus group in order to establish a starting point regarding competency…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Study, Undergraduate Students, Student Evaluation
Assessment of Competence in Clinical Reasoning and Decision-Making under Uncertainty: The Script Concordance Test Method
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Ramaekers, Stephan; Kremer, Wim; Pilot, Albert; van Beukelen, Peter; van Keulen, Hanno – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2010
Real-life, complex problems often require that decisions are made despite limited information or insufficient time to explore all relevant aspects. Incorporating authentic uncertainties into an assessment, however, poses problems in establishing results and analysing their methodological qualities. This study aims at developing a test on clinical…
Descriptors: Test Results, Test Reliability, Test Validity, Veterinary Medicine
The Latent Structure of Anxiety Sensitivity--Revisited
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Broman-Fulks, Joshua J.; Green, Bradley A.; Berman, Mitchell E.; Olatunji, Bunmi O.; Arnau, Randolph C.; Deacon, Brett J.; Sawchuk, Craig N. – Assessment, 2008
Anxiety sensitivity has been implicated as a risk factor for the development and maintenance of panic and other anxiety disorders. Although researchers have generally assumed that anxiety sensitivity is a dimensional, rather than categorical, variable, recent taxometric research has raised questions concerning the accuracy of this assumption. The…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Risk, Anxiety, Psychological Patterns
A Comparison of the Bem Sex-Role Inventory and the Heilbrun Masculinity and Femininity Scales.
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Small, Arnold C.; And Others – Journal of Personality Assessment, 1979
The Bem Sex-Role Inventory and Heilbrun Masculinity and Femininity Scales were compared. Correlations between the masculine and feminine scales of both instruments were significant for males but not for females. Misclassification into sex role categories occurred primarily in those categories in which personality characteristics overlap. (MH)
Descriptors: Androgyny, Classification, Comparative Testing, Femininity
Development and Validation of a Test of Relationship Style.
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Tuckman, Bruce W. – 1996
A two-dimensional, four-category model for classifying the way that people relate to others, or relationship style, was developed by T. Alessandra (1987). The model characterizes style in terms of openness, with poles of open and self-contained, and directness, with poles of direct and indirect. Combining the poles of the two dimensions yields the…
Descriptors: Adults, Classification, Goal Orientation, Higher Education