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Pellicano, Elizabeth; Maybery, Murray; Durkin, Kevin – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2005
Background: Frith and Happe (1994) describe central coherence (CC) as the normal tendency to integrate individual elements into a coherent whole, a cognitive style which varies in the general population. Individuals with autism are at the extreme (weak) end of the continuum of coherence. There has been debate over whether CC is independent from…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Cognitive Style, Rhetoric, Autism
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Verdugo, M. A.; Cordoba, L.; Gomez, J. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2005
Background: Assessing the quality of life (QOL) for families that include a person with a disability have recently become a major emphasis in cross-cultural QOL studies. The present study examined the reliability and validity of the Family Quality of Life Survey (FQOL) on a Spanish sample. Method and Results: The sample comprised 385 families who…
Descriptors: Quality of Life, Factor Analysis, Factor Structure, Test Validity
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Carney, JoLynn V. – Journal of School Violence, 2005
The author explored the underlying dimensions and construct validity of the Bullying Situations Identification Instrument (BSI; Hazler, Miller, Carney, & Green, 2001) using exploratory factor analyses. Three dimensions of bullying severity were found using 251 school professionals as participants. The three factors that emerged from analyses were…
Descriptors: Bullying, Construct Validity, Test Validity, Factor Structure
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Siu, Andrew M. H.; Shek, Daniel T. L. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2005
Objectives: Psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (C-IRI) for the assessment of empathy in Chinese people were examined. Method: The Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) was translated to Chinese, and an expert panel reviewed its content validity and cultural relevance. The translated instrument…
Descriptors: Cultural Relevance, Content Validity, Construct Validity, Factor Structure
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Lian, Chua Siew; Wong, Angela F. L.; Der-Thanq, Victor Chen – Issues in Educational Research, 2006
The Chinese Language Classroom Environment Inventory (CLCEI) is a bilingual instrument developed for use in measuring students' and teachers' perceptions toward their Chinese Language classroom learning environments in Singapore secondary schools. The English version of the CLCEI was customised from the English version of the "What is…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Student Attitudes, Validity, Factor Structure
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Schelfhout, Wouter; Dochy, Filip; Janssens, Steven; Struyven, Katrien; Gielen, Sarah – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2006
Recently, many insights have been gained into how to create powerful learning environments. The goal of learning how to teach in this way has important consequences for teacher training. Firstly, scholars indicate the necessity to work out a theoretical framework for the student-teachers which is sufficiently complete, but still manageable, and…
Descriptors: Models, Educational Environment, Questionnaires, Validity
Gordon, Wayne I.; And Others – 1996
The Self-Regulated Learning Inventory was developed to help researchers and teachers understand the concept of self-regulated learning and to provide a tool for identifying behaviors students need for academic success. Version One of the instrument contained 71 items representing the factors of metacognition, learning strategies, motivation,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Processes, Factor Analysis, Factor Structure
Nicholson, Charles L.; Alcorn, Charles L. – 1994
The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) has a long history, dating back to the 1930s, when it was devised specifically for measuring the intelligence of children through verbal and performance subtests. Intelligence quotients (IQs) are developed for verbal and performance skills. The subtests, their factors, indices derived from them,…
Descriptors: Children, Educational Diagnosis, Factor Structure, Identification
Wang, Xiaoping – 1992
This paper presents results of a LISREL factor analysis on data from the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R) and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Chinese Revised (WISC-CR) (published in 1986) for children ages 6.5 to 16.5 years, using a standardization sample of 200 children (100 males and 100 females) at each of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Children, Chinese
Chauvin, Sheila W.; Ellett, Chad D. – 1993
This paper studied the construct validity of the Receptivity to Change Inventory (RCI) as a measure of teacher receptivity to change. The sample consisted of all teachers in 94 schools in 6 districts in southern Louisiana. Usable data were received from 1,921 teachers from elementary schools and secondary schools during the spring of 1992. The…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Construct Validity, Educational Change, Elementary School Teachers
Patton, M. J.; And Others – 1992
The Supervisory Working Alliance Inventory (SWAI) developed by J. F. Efstation, M. J. Patton, and C. M. Kardash (1990) was further evaluated for its psychometric properties and relationships with the Personal Reactions Scale--Revised (PRS-R) developed by E. L. Holloway and B. E. Wampold (1984), the only other measure of the relationship in…
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Counselor Training, Factor Structure, Higher Education
Byrne, Barbara M.; And Others – 1991
Extending the earlier work of B. M. Byrne and P. Baron (1990), the factorial invariance of the 21-item Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) was tested using 351 non-clinical adolescent males and 334 non-clinical adolescent females. All subjects were in grades 9 through 12 and attended the same secondary school in a large metropolitan area in central…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Affective Measures, Analysis of Covariance, Comparative Testing
Halpin, Glennelle; And Others – 1989
A study involving 169 graduate nursing students (4 males and 165 females) was conducted to assess the construct validity of the Adult Career Concerns Inventory (ACCI). The ACCI is designed to assess career concerns of adults of any age and occupation. Focused on the "planfulness" and exploration factors of the theoretical model of…
Descriptors: Adult Counseling, Adults, Career Change, Career Counseling
Zemore, Robert; And Others – 1990
The development of the Depression Proneness Rating Scale (DPRS) and three investigations into its reliability, validity, and factor structure are described. Subjects of all three studies were university undergraduates. The first study (n=100) found a stability coefficient of 0.82 for the DPRS over a test-retest (Time 1-Time 2) interval of 9 weeks.…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Depression (Psychology), Diagnostic Tests, Factor Structure
Bliss, Leonard B.; Mueller, Richard J. – 1986
The psychometric properties of an instrument designed to assess study behaviors of college and university students were examined. A convenience sample of 1052 undergraduates at a group of midwestern colleges and universities and at a four-year college in a United States Caribbean territory responded to the Study Behavior Inventory (SBI), Form D. A…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, College Students, Educational Development, Factor Analysis
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