This study examined the internal consistency of the Student Satisfaction Inventory (SSI) (L. Schrener, S. Juillerat, and Noel-Levitz Group, 1997) and the latent structures of the instrument. The SSI is an instrument that measures students' satisfaction with their college experiences. The SSI was administered to 251 students randomly selected from…

The 1999 Advanced Placement[R] (AP[R] Psychology Examination contains items drawn from 13 factors related to the study of psychology. This factor structure had not been explored previously. This study focuses on evaluating the fit of confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) models to examination items. Since examination items were dichotomous and…

The Organizational Health Description Questionnaire (OHDQ) was developed by the authors because no known instrument existed that would lend itself to the measurement of organizational health as defined by Matthew B. Miles. (Authors)

The objective of constructing this scale was to produce a short, balanced scale, to measure favourability of attitude to coloured people, containing items relevant to the British situation, likely to be meaningful even to 11-year-olds. (Author/JM)

Study was conducted to determine the factor structure of the instrument being used at Cleveland State University, and to provide a means of revising the content of the instrument. (Authors)

Somindence (sober mature independence) is found in the stolid, mature, independent; and by contrast, dissofrustance (dissociative rejection of frustrating ideas) characterizes the more careful, less enthusiastic person with increased dependence on external control. (Author/MB)

Study investigated the factorial congruence of Kerlinger's Educational Attitudes Scales and Oliver and Butcher's Survey of Opinions About Education. (MB)

Results of this study suggest that certain kinds of treatment differences may be better uncovered by viewing test data in a repeated measures format. (Author/MB)

The factorial invariance of a temperament questionnaire was studied using the data provided by 24 teachers of 564 kindergarten through fourth-grade children. A LISREL analysis supported the hypothesized three-factor model and established factorial invariance of the shortened version of a behavioral rating scale constructed by Thomas and Chess.…

In examining considerations in determining sample sizes for factor analyses, attention was given to the effects of outliers; the standard error of correlations, and their effect on factor structure; sample heterogeneity; and the misuse of rules of thumb for sample sizes. (Author)

Initial assessments of the item characteristics, reliability, and validity of the Inquiry Mode Questionnaire (IMQ) are reported. The IMQ was developed by (Harrison and Bramson) to measure the characteristic thinking style of individuals on five major dimensions: synthesist, idealist, analyst, realist, and pragmatist. (Author/PN)

Responses of 522 middle-class parents to Torrance's Ideal Child Checklist were factor analyzed. Four dimensions were found to underly the 66 items that originally comprised the scale: Factor I, Confident, Aggressive, Well Adjusted; Factor II, Socially Virtuous; Factor III, Negativistic, Critical; and Factor IV, Creative-Intuitive. These dimensions…

This study produced an operational measure of school executives' attitudes toward open collective bargaining. The Open Collective Bargaining Survey presents a subscale structure that is suggestive of certain political systems' models of education and may be more informative than single item measures. (Author/PN)

The factorial structure of the California Achievement Test subtests appears to consist of only one common factor in each grade. This study indicates that there is considerable overlap among the subtests and that there is minimal support for the use of subtest scores as measures of independent constructs. (Author/PN)