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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
Mayberry, Paul W. – 1984
Efforts to study the fidelity of translation of attitudinal scales into foreign languages have faltered due to the lack of powerful statistical tests to assess such transformations. This study uses a maximum likelihood factor analysis procedure to compare multivariate factor structures across subpopulations. The results showed that inconsistent…
Descriptors: Adults, Attitude Measures, Factor Analysis, Factor Structure
Tracey, Terence J.; Sedlacek, William E. – 1988
In an effort to improve the reliability of the Noncognitive Questionnaire (NCQ), the instrument was revised and the revision's reliability and validity were examined examined with black and white college freshmen. The NCQ measures eight non-traditional or non-cognitive variables that relate to minority student retention. The revised NCQ is…
Descriptors: Black Students, College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis, Construct Validity
Thompson, Bruce; Borrello, Gloria M. – 1989
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) measures variations in normal personality. The validity of the measure has only recently been examined by analyses of the structure underlying MBTI responses; and these investigations have used exploratory factor analyses, rather than confirmatory factor analytic methods. A confirmatory factor analysis was…
Descriptors: College Students, Factor Analysis, Factor Structure, Goodness of Fit
Melancon, Janet G.; Thompson, Bruce – 1989
This study investigated the nature of field independence by exploring the structure underlying responses to Forms A and B of a multiple-choice measure of field-independence, the Finding Embedded Figures Test (FEFT). Subjects included 302 students (52.7% male) enrolled in mathematics courses at a university in the southern United States. Students…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Equated Scores, Factor Structure

Schaefer, Earl S.; Edgerton, Marianna – 1982
The goal of this study is to broaden the scope of a conceptual model for child behavior by analyzing constructs relevant to cognition, conation, and affect. Two samples were drawn from school populations. For the first sample, 28 teachers from 8 rural, suburban, and urban schools rated 193 kindergarten children. Each teacher rated up to eight…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Classroom Research, Competence, Creativity
Purkey, William Watson; And Others – 1984
The purpose of the Florida KEY is to provide teachers with a single instrument to infer self-concept as learner of students in grades 1-6. The KEY identifies selected behaviors of students who seem to possess positive and realistic self-concepts in the area of school success. The KEY contains 23 interrogative items that describe student behavior…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Elementary Education, Factor Structure, Scoring
Hunt, Dennis; Randhawa, Bikkar S. – 1979
The Children's Personality Questionnaire (CPQ) was administered to 23 academically handicapped children (mean IQ, 79) and 35 academically gifted students (mean IQ, 147). The CPQ measures 14 distinct personality factors; data on these variables were analyzed using a 2 x 2 (academic ability x sex) analysis of variance design. A stepwise discriminant…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academically Gifted, Academically Handicapped, Factor Structure
Dickson, George E.; Wiersma, William – 1980
The College of Education of the University of Toledo designed a competency-based teacher education (CBTE) program in 1968-69 and began the implementation of that program in 1970. The total CBTE program is based upon a predetermined set of specific behaviors to be mastered, and includes a Teacher Education Center as a coordinating, materials and…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Competency Based Teacher Education, Data Analysis, Factor Structure
Elsworth, Gerald R.; Coulter, Frank – 1977
This monograph reports the development of a semantic differential designed to measure professional self perception in student teachers. Seven scales were identified by factor analysis of the responses of 396 student teachers to 56 adjectival pairs used to rate the concepts "Myself,""Myself as I would like to be,""Myself as…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Evaluation Criteria, Factor Structure, Foreign Countries
O'Sullivan, Maureen; Guilford, J. P.
It has been suggested than an educational curriculum should include training in working with people as well as with ideas. Measuring and conceptualizing "social intelligence has been difficult, however. Although the idea of social intelligence has a long history, most tests which have been proposed to measure such ability correlate highly…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Cognitive Processes, Factor Analysis, Factor Structure
Ekstrom, Ruth B. – 1976
The Beginning Teacher Evaluation Study (BTES), Phase II, was a research project on effective teaching behavior--what teachers do that significantly affects what and how pupils learn. The purposes of Phase II were to (1) develop an assessment system for measuring teacher and pupil behaviors and other factors which could influence each of them and…
Descriptors: Aptitude, Aptitude Tests, Correlation, Elementary Education
Hervey, Sarah D. – 1968
This study was part of a larger Head Start research project. The parents (251 women and 185 men) of Head Start children were asked whether or not they would punish their children for certain behavior; for example, lying, stealing, or hitting a sister. Eighteen situations were hypothesized in the questions. Parents were also asked how severe such…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Discipline, Discipline Policy, Factor Analysis