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Kuhn, Lisa Katharina; Fletcher, Lydia; Bradshaw, Sally – Educational Research, 2021
Background: The decline of young people's wellbeing in the UK and elsewhere has become an increasing focus for attention. In this context, it is encouraging to note some evidence suggesting that participation in extracurricular activities may have potential to improve wellbeing. However, the considerable conceptual and methodological challenges…
Descriptors: Well Being, Extracurricular Activities, Soft Skills, Measurement
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Cook, Katherine D.; Hardin, Erin E.; Gibbons, Melinda M.; Johnson, Marlon C.; Peterson, Christina; Taylor, Anna Lora; Murphy, Sean – Professional School Counseling, 2021
College preparation is an important topic in the educational attainment of high school students. Much of the research on college planning focuses on the importance and timing of preparing for postsecondary education; however, little research has explored the steps students actually take while preparing for college. The current study utilized the…
Descriptors: College Planning, College Preparation, High School Students, Grade 10
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Sutter, Carolyn; Ontai, Lenna L.; Nishina, Adrienne; Conger, Katherine J.; Shilts, Mical K.; Townsend, Marilyn S. – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
A disconnect exists between definitions of school readiness used in research and early childhood education (ECE). While researchers often discuss school readiness as a single, multidimensional construct, the majority of studies operationalize it using multiple measures rather than as one outcome. In comparison, in ECE settings a single measurement…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Factor Structure, Predictor Variables, Early Childhood Education
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Watson, Joshua C. – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2017
Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) is a data reduction technique used to condense data into smaller sets of summary variables by identifying underlying factors potentially accounting for patterns of collinearity among said variables. Using an illustrative example, the 5 general steps of EFA are described with best practices for decision making…
Descriptors: Evidence, Factor Structure, Factor Analysis, Test Construction
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Carter, Mark; Kemp, Coral; Sweller, Naomi – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2017
Background: Empowerment is regarded as an important outcome in service provision to families of individuals with disability. Nevertheless, data on psychometric characteristics of measures related to empowerment are often inadequate, and limited data are available on the Enabling Practices Scale (EPS). Method: The EPS was completed by 128 families…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Empowerment, Family (Sociological Unit), Measures (Individuals)
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Ronen Kasperski; Merav E. Hemi – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2024
Educators' Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) is crucial for fostering positive, supportive, and effective learning environments. This study seeks to improve SEL assessment among educators by addressing limitations of the previous EduSEL questionnaire. Study 1 established convergent validity by comparing EduSEL with a validated SEL questionnaire.…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Factor Structure, Factor Analysis, Teacher Attitudes
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Peter Ndiangui; Onder Koklu – Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 2024
This study focuses on the development of a measurement instrument to identify Middle and High School mathematics and science teachers' beliefs about the main factors of underrepresentation of African American students in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields. The research method using the stages of instrument development…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, High School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Science Teachers
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Skordi, Panayiotis; Fraser, Barry J. – Learning Environments Research, 2019
Considerable past classroom learning environment research has focused on the primary and secondary levels of education and the subject areas of science and mathematics. The current study is distinctive in its focus on university business statistics learning environments. For the first time, we validated and applied the widely-used What Is…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Statistics, Classroom Environment, Business Administration Education
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Kern, Margaret L.; Zeng, Guang; Hou, Hanchao; Peng, Kaiping – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2019
Recent decades have brought growing interest in understanding and measuring psychological well-being. Although multiple measures of well-being exist, most were developed with Western populations. The current study tested the factor structure of a Chinese translation of the engagement, perseverance, optimism, connectedness and happiness (EPOCH)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students, Well Being
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Asempapa, Bridget; Asempapa, Reuben S. – SAGE Open, 2019
This study provides the development phases and initial psychometric evaluation of the Integrated Care Competency Scale (ICCS) with sample (n = 243). Specifically, quantitative methods with graduate counseling students were used in this study. The ICCS through a three-phase study process was honed to 65 items and broadly assesses graduate…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Content Validity, Test Reliability, Psychometrics
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Aghekyan, Rosa – Science Education International, 2019
This article describes the development and validation of an instrument called science identities, expectations of success in science, values of science, and environmental attitudes (SIEVEA). The instrument is a convenient online survey that can be used to measure students' SIEVEA. First, 1764 high school students from 11 school districts in New…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Factor Analysis, Self Concept, School Districts
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Tavakoli, Elaheh; Amirian, Mohammad Reza; Burner, Tony; Davoudi, Mohammad; Ghaniabadi, Saeed – International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2019
This validation study was undertaken to evaluate the construct of Formative Assessment of Writing (FAoW) operationalized by an instrument with 50 Likert scale items. To identify the EFL learners' experiences of FAoW practices, the instrument was first piloted with three EFL learners, and subsequently administered on a sample of 255 EFL learners…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Writing Evaluation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Ng, Zi Jia; Huebner, E. Scott; Maydeu-Olivares, Alberto; Hills, Kimberly J. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2019
While adolescence is a critical stage of development marked by heightened bottom-up emotional reactivity and immature top-down regulatory control, research on emotion regulation has relatively neglected middle childhood to adolescence years. This may be attributed to the limited number and scope of age-appropriate, reliable, and valid measures of…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Children, Adolescents, Longitudinal Studies
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Leung, K. C. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2019
Current research has shown that there is a separation of the competence and affect components of academic self-concept on the Self-Description Questionnaire (SDQ) II in Western culture. However, no studies have investigated the competence-affect separation for the Math and Verbal scales of the SDQ II in Chinese samples. The present study examines…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Questionnaires, Self Concept Measures, Self Concept
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Córdova, David; Coleman-Minahan, Kate; Bull, Sheana; Borrayo, Evelinn A. – Youth & Society, 2019
Social capital plays an important role in sexual and reproductive health among youth, yet few measures to assess this concept have been developed and tested for this population. We developed and examined the factor structure of the Brief Social Capital for Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health Scale. Drawing on the empirical literature, we…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Sexuality, Health, Birth
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