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Wenner, Lawrence A. – 1980
Based on preliminary interviews with 40 adults, an instrument was devised for assessing voters' uses and gratifications of viewing television news about presidential campaigns. When this instrument was used to survey 226 persons of voting age, an analysis by orthogonal rotation of the data produced a six-factor solution accounting for 52.6% of the…
Descriptors: Adults, Communication Research, Factor Structure, Information Seeking
Silvernail, David L. – 1979
The purposes of the study were to design a Future World Perspective Values Scale, test the validity and reliability of the scale, and collect data on teachers' and students' values. The scale was designed to measure the four value constructs of selective economic growth, adaptive technology, international cooperation, and world economic justice.…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Cultural Awareness, Factor Structure, Futures (of Society)
Hattie, John; Fitzgerald, Don – 1979
Four alternative theoretical models of intellectual competence were assessed, using confirmatory factor analysis to account for the correlation patterns derived from Wechsler intelligence tests. It was argued that the difference between the chi-square goodness of fit statistics that are provided when using confirmatory factor analysis gives a…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Factor Structure
Scott, Craig S.; And Others – 1977
The Oregon State System of Higher Education recently completed a 3-year study entitled Faculty Teaching: Models for Assessment of Quality. Over 400 teaching and administrative faculty selected on a random or stratified basis answered the following questions: (1) What factors are considered in the assessment of faculty performance? (2) What…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Evaluation Criteria, Factor Structure, Faculty Evaluation
Lapan, Stephen D. – 1976
The purpose of this study was to develop and validate an instrument to collect student judgments regarding their teacher's credibility. Items were developed and evidence of content validity generated. A pilot sample and a final sample of high school students were administered the Source Credibility Measure (SCM) so that actual response data could…
Descriptors: Credibility, Factor Analysis, Factor Structure, High School Students
Bell, John A. – 1976
A 60-item short form of the Minnesota Teacher Attitude Inventory (MTAI) was compared to the present form of 150 items to determine whether the same constructs are common to both sets of items. Correlations were computed between scores on the two forms for 675 undergraduate elementary, secondary, and all levels education majors yielding…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Comparative Analysis, Correlation, Factor Analysis
Dermen, Diran; And Others – 1974
In an earlier report, one of the authors describes 28 temperament factors for which there is sufficient consensus in the literature to call them "established". From 1 to 5 distinct bipolar subscales were suggested to mark each factor; 12 or 16 item subscales were written, each balanced in terms of the two defined poles and in terms of numbers of…
Descriptors: College Students, Correlation, Factor Analysis, Factor Structure
Goolsby, Thomas M., Jr.; Frary, Robert B.
The methods and validity of evaluations of cognitive development, in language and numbers, of children ages three through six, by use of classroom observation inventory lists are discussed. The Evaluation of Cognitive Development--Pre-Reading Skills, an observational instrument (teacher completed), was administered to 134 first grade students in a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Beginning Reading, Classroom Observation Techniques, Cognitive Development
Yonker, Robert J.; And Others – 1974
This study developed a semantic differential (SD) instrument to measure self-concept that was not influenced by social desirability. An alpha factor analysis of 53 SD scales produced five interpretable factors for the females and five interpretable factors for the males. A subsequent investigation of the convergent validity of each of the factors…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Factor Structure, Grade 10, High School Students
Broomes, Desmond Rodwell – 1971
This study investigated individual differences in mathematical performance among secondary school students, and differences between boys and girls and between students of high and low socioeconomic status. A sample of 335 ninth-grade students from two secondary schools was administered tests of personality, mathematics attitude, numerical ability,…
Descriptors: Achievement, Attitudes, Doctoral Dissertations, Factor Analysis
Nowicki, Steve – 1973
This study investigate the factor structure of the Nowicki-Strickland locus of control scales for children. A major objective of the research was to provide empirical evidence that can help to reveal the multi-dimensionality (or uni-dimensionality) of locus of control. This is an important distinction because locus of control will be a superior…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavioral Science Research, Elementary School Students, Factor Analysis
Evans, G. T. – 1971
A basic assumption of this study is that the meaning continuum registered by an adjective pair remains relatively constant over a large universe of concepts and over subjects within a relatively homogeneous population. An attempt was made to validate this assumption by showing the invariance of the factor structure across different types of…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Attitudes, Concept Formation, Factor Analysis
Strickland, Guy – 1970
These appendices to ED 043 919 contain the test instrument itself, which was not included with the original announcement. The Attitude to School Questionnaire (ASQ) is designed to measure first graders' attitudes toward school. ASQ is a group-administered, paper and pencil, nonverbal, paced test. The child listens to a description of a situation…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Factor Analysis, Factor Structure, Grade 1
McCroskey, James C.; And Others – 1972
This study reports a portion of a series of investigations designed to determine to what extent credibility scales can be generalized. The investigation data was collected in six phases, representing six subject populations. All of the subjects were either college students or non-student adults. Subjects were asked to respond to one of four…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Credibility, Evaluation Methods, Factor Structure
Ryan, Joseph P.; Hamm, Debra W. – 1976
A procedure is described for increasing the reliability of tests after they have been given and for developing shorter but more reliable tests. Eight tests administered to 200 graduate students studying educational research are analyzed. The analysis considers the original tests, the items loading on the first factor of the test, and the items…
Descriptors: Career Development, Factor Analysis, Factor Structure, Item Analysis
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