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Direct linkHoy, Wayne K.; Smith, Page A.; Sweetland, Scott R. – High School Journal, 2003
A parsimonious measure of organizational climate of high schools is developed and tested in this research. The Organizational Climate Index (OCI) captures open and healthy dimensions of high school climates at the student, teacher, principal, and community levels. Next the relationship between the climate of schools and faculty trust is examined…
Descriptors: High Schools, Trust (Psychology), Organizational Climate, Psychometrics
Shultz, Jennifer; Aman, Michael; Kelbley, Thomas; Wallace, Cheryl LeClear; Burt, Diana B.; Primeaux-Hart, Sharon; Loveland, Katherine; Thorpe, Lilian; Bogos, Eleanor S.; Timon, John; Patti, Paul; Tsiouris, John – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 2004
We compared groups with and without diagnosed dementia matched on IQ, age, and presence of Down syndrome. The Dementia Scale for Down Syndrome and Dementia Questionnaire for Mentally Retarded Persons were used to assess participants. We developed two performance tasks to determine whether they were useful in separating subjects with and without…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Dementia, Older Adults, Down Syndrome
Amelang, Manfred; Steinmayr, Ricarda – Intelligence, 2006
Emotional intelligence (EI) has often been criticized to measure nothing more than intelligence and personality. Recent studies have shown that EI has an incremental validity concerning life outcome criteria, but inconsistent results have been found for achievement criteria. Two studies were conducted to examine if EI could predict achievement…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Evaluation Criteria, Social Status, Emotional Intelligence
Jorgenson, Olaf; Smolkovich, Greg E. – Middle School Journal (J3), 2004
This article presents a framework for school administrators developed by Mesa Unified School district used in identifying and assisting the subtly struggling adolescents. Mesa's "safety net" approach targets middle grades students in the midst of their formative, pre-high school experience. Here, it is stated that the first step to identify a…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Prevention, Middle School Students, High Risk Students
Kalyuga, Slava – Educational Psychology, 2006
To tailor instruction to levels of learner proficiency in a domain in adaptive learning environments, rapid on-line methods of assessing learner knowledge and skills are required. Cognitive studies indicate that major factors in expert performance are organised structures in the person's knowledge base. Measuring different levels of acquisition of…
Descriptors: Memory, Reading Skills, Learning Processes, Cognitive Measurement
Scahill, Lawrence; McDougle, Christopher J.; Williams, Susan K.; Dimitropoulos, Anastasia; Aman, Michael G.; McCracken, James T.; Tierney, Elaine; Arnold, L. Eugene; Cronin, Pegeen; Grados, Marco; Ghuman, Jaswinder; Koenig, Kathleen; Lam, Kristen S. L.; McGough, James; Posey, David J.; Ritz, Louise; Swiezy, Naomi B.; Vitiello, Benedetto – Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2006
Objective: To examine the psychometric properties of the Children's Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scales (CYBOCS) modified for pervasive developmental disorders (PDDs). Method: Raters from five Research Units on Pediatric Psychopharmacology (RUPP) Autism Network were trained to reliability. The modified scale (CYBOCS-PDD), which contains only…
Descriptors: Children, Severity (of Disability), Test Reliability, Behavior Disorders
Cox, Enid O.; Green, Kathy E.; Seo, Honglan; Inaba, Miyuki; Quillen, Alicia Alyla – Gerontologist, 2006
Purpose: Measures are lacking that address the challenges that people think they face in their roles as elderly care receivers. However, the development of a sense of efficacy in this role by mentally competent care receivers is critical to successful partnerships between caregivers and care receivers. The purpose of this article is to report the…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Caregivers, Geriatrics, Factor Structure
Kaufman, Ruth; Burden, Robert – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2004
This study aimed to draw upon a sociocultural perspective for elucidating the process and outcome of peer learning interactions between young adults with serious learning disabilities. A heterogeneous group of ten young adults between ages of 18 and 27 participated in the year-long cognitive program based on the principles of Feuerstein's theory…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Research Design, Severe Disabilities, Intervention
Schneider, Wolfgang; Wolke, Dieter; Schlagmuller, Matthias; Meyer, Renate – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2004
Individual differences in academic success were investigated in a geographically defined whole-population sample of very preterm children with a gestational age of less than 32 weeks or a birth weight of less than 1500 gm. The sample consisted of 264 very preterm children (75.6% of German-speaking survivors) and 264 controls matched for gender,…
Descriptors: Children, Predictor Variables, Cognitive Ability, Control Groups
Frey, Lisa L.; Beesley, Denise; Newman, Jody L. – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2005
The study examined the component structure of the Relational Health Indices (B. Liang et al., 2002) with a mixed-sex sample of students seeking services at a university counseling center. In contrast to previous findings, results suggested a unidimensional structure for the peer and mentor composites and a 2-component structure for the community…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Clinical Psychology, Empowerment, Construct Validity
Kyriakides, Leonidas; Kaloyirou, Chrystalla; Lindsay, Geoff – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2006
Background: Bullying is a problem in schools in many countries. There would be a benefit in the availability of a psychometrically sound instrument for its measurement, for use by teachers and researchers. The Olweus Bully/Victim Questionnaire has been used in a number of studies but comprehensive evidence on its validity is not available. Aims:…
Descriptors: Mathematical Formulas, Probability, Victims of Crime, Student Behavior
Wiliam, Dylan – Review of Research in Education, 2010
The idea that validity should be considered a property of inferences, rather than of assessments, has developed slowly over the past century. In early writings about the validity of educational assessments, validity was defined as a property of an assessment. The most common definition was that an assessment was valid to the extent that it…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Validity, Inferences, Construct Validity
Zometa, Carlos S.; Dedrick, Robert; Knox, Michael D.; Westhoff, Wayne; Siman Siri, Rodrigo; Debaldo, Ann – AIDS Education and Prevention, 2007
An instrument developed in the United States by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to assess HIV/AIDS knowledge and four attitudinal dimensions (Peer Pressure, Abstinence, Drug Use, and Threat of HIV Infection) and an instrument developed by Basen-Engquist et al. (1999) to measure abstinence and condom use were translated,…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Disease Control, Speech Communication, Prevention
Download full textAhson, Nancy L.; Gentemann, Karen M. – 1996
This paper describes empirically tested strategies for containing mailed questionnaire costs while maximizing survey response rates. Survey focus, critical to gaining respondent interest and completion of the survey instrument, should be selected on the basis of the theme of the study in order to reduce survey length and yield more in-depth and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cost Effectiveness, Data Collection, Graduate Surveys
Baker, Sheldon R.; And Others – 1995
A paradigm for the recalibration of teacher-made assessment that assesses and evaluates in one operation is formulated. The effort to make the classroom the primary source of educational research activity is contingent on redefining educational research as empirical and not experimental. This emphasizes that the empirical analysis of instructional…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Educational Assessment, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
