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Logvinenko, Tatiana; Cheek, Connor; Khalaf, Shiva; Prikhoda, Natalia; Zhukova, Marina A.; Grigorenko, Elena L. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2021
Research into reading difficulties in Russian has been taking place for about a century, since the 1920s. Early research established a line of studies on reading acquisition difficulties in the context of highly structured practices of teaching reading. These practices were propagated in the mid-late 19th century by Konstantin Ushinskii, who…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Reading Skills, Word Recognition, Reading Comprehension
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Lavidas, Konstantinos; Manesis, Dionysios; Gialamas, Vasilios – International Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
The purpose of this study was to adapt the Statistics Anxiety Rating Scale (STARS) for a Greek student population. The STARS was administered to 890 Tertiary Education students in two Greek universities. It was performed a cross-validation study to examine the factorial structure and the psychometric properties with a series of confirmatory factor…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Anxiety, Rating Scales, College Students
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Martin, Florence; Bolliger, Doris U.; Flowers, Claudia – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2021
Course design is critical to online student engagement and retention. This study focused on the development and validation of an online course design elements (OCDE) instrument with 38 Likert-type scale items in five subscales: (a) overview, (b) content presentation, (c) interaction and communication, (d) assessment and evaluation, and (e) learner…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Online Courses, Likert Scales, Test Construction
Ling, Guangming; Elliot, Norbert; Burstein, Jill C.; McCaffrey, Daniel F.; MacArthur, Charles A.; Holtzman, Steven – Grantee Submission, 2021
This study reports on validation of a writing motivation survey and its relationship with a variety of indicators of academic performance of 566 undergraduate students drawn from six US postsecondary institutions. A writing motivation survey was used to capture students' writing goals, confidence, beliefs, and affect. Two research questions are…
Descriptors: Writing Attitudes, Student Motivation, Writing Evaluation, Student Surveys
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Akdemir, Elif – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2020
Motivation initiates, maintains and directs spiritual and physical activity of individuals. It is important to determine the motivation of teachers who play important role in education and technology usage. The purpose of this study is to use the motivational scale to measure the motivation of teachers working in Zonguldak city of Turkey. The the…
Descriptors: Teacher Motivation, Foreign Countries, Measures (Individuals), Psychological Needs
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Moreira, Paulo; Cunha, Diana; Inman, Richard A. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2020
Student engagement is typically regarded as being a multidimensional construct, but there remains no clear consensus about its precise conceptualization. Several current measures of student engagement are limited by their omission of relevant dimensions and/or poor correspondence between dimension labels and item content. To address these…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Measures (Individuals), Test Validity, Psychometrics
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Lu, Ming-hui; Pang, Fei-fan; Luo, Jie – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2020
The literature on tools of attitudes towards ASD was limited. This study is the first to examine the factor structure and psychometric properties of the multidimensional attitudes scale toward persons with disabilities (MAS) in a sample of Chinese college students (N = 1002, 32.10% males). Confirmatory factor analysis supported the G-MAS-R model's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Attitude Measures, Attitudes toward Disabilities, College Students
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Chen, Xinjie; He, Jinbo; Fan, Xitao – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2020
This study examined the cross-cultural validity of the Ego-Resilience Scale (ER89) in the Chinese cultural context. The ER89 was translated and culturally adapted into Chinese by following the psychometric validation procedures, in an adolescent sample (N = 943) of 13- to 18-year-olds. A series of psychometric analyses were conducted, including…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Concept Measures, Resilience (Psychology), Adolescents
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Mandracchia, Nina R.; Sims, Wesley A. – Computers in the Schools, 2020
As technology use continues to rapidly increase, so too does consumer use of web-based resources. While important, accessibility is often overemphasized by users when consuming and evaluating web resources. This prioritization may have particularly negative consequences for the selection of supports or interventions in educational settings. This…
Descriptors: Internet, Resources, Selection, Rating Scales
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Tabet, Saundra M.; Lambie, Glenn W.; Jahani, Shiva; Rasoolimanesh, S. Mostafa – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2020
The researchers employed a confirmatory tetrad analysis (CTA) using partial least squares--structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) with Outcome Questionnaire--45.2 (OQ-45) data, examining the measurement model of the OQ-45 scores with a sample of male adult clients (N = 1,558) receiving individual therapy at a university-based community counseling…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Questionnaires, Least Squares Statistics, Structural Equation Models
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Alpizar, David; French, Brian F.; Vo, Thao T. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2020
Truancy can have a detrimental impact on student outcomes. Risk assessments are used to identify behavioral and emotional problems associated with school truancy. Although imperative for informing decisions about student's welfare, risk assessments generally lack substantial validity evidence. Specifically, supporting score interpretation across…
Descriptors: Risk Assessment, Needs Assessment, Truancy, African American Students
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Smith, Robert L.; Karaman, Mehmet A.; Balkin, Richard S.; Talwar, Saumya – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2020
The purpose of this study was to develop a theoretically-driven instrument of achievement motivation and determine its validation. The Achievement Motivation Measure (AMM) is closely aligned with Atkinson and McClelland's (1948, 1953, 1961) theoretical constructs of achievement thoughts and behaviours. Confirmatory and exploratory factor analysis…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Student Motivation, Measures (Individuals), Psychometrics
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Chen, Yen T.; Barcelona, Jeanne M.; Cance, Jessica Duncan; Calvert, Hannah G.; Barnes, Seraphine Pitt; Wargo, Jane; Castelli, Darla M. – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2020
Purpose: Fitness education is essential for children's health, but determining the effectiveness of instruction related to health-related fitness is difficult. The present study developed and confirmed the validity of a 20-item scale, adapted from the School Health Index (Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention [CDC], 2014), to evaluate the…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Fitness, Measures (Individuals), Test Construction
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Yurtseven, Nihal – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2020
The purpose of this study is to carry out the linguistic equivalence, validity and reliability study of the Teacher Emotion Questionnaire (TEQ) developed by Buric, Sliškovic and Macuka (2018). After ensuring the linguistic equivalence of the Turkish form, responses of 601 teachers were tested by Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) to ensure the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Emotional Experience, Questionnaires
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Shahabi, Mehrnesa; Hasani, Jafar; Bjureberg, Johan – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2020
The "Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale" (DERS) is an established self-reported measure of emotion regulation difficulties. Recently, a brief 16-item version of this scale--the DERS-16--was developed. The goal of the present study was to extend the research on the DERS-16 by evaluating the reliability and validity of the Persian…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Emotional Problems, Psychometrics, Indo European Languages
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