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Magidson, Jay; Sorbom, Dag – 1980
Evaluations of social programs based upon quasi-experimental designs are typically plagued by problems of nonequivalence between the experimental and comparison group prior to the experiment. In such settings it is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to isolate the effects of the program from the confounding effects associated with the…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Correlation, Evaluation Methods, Experimental Groups
McKee, Barbara G.; Blake, Rowland S. – 1979
A questionnaire concerning attitudes toward the importance of communication skills and toward different modes of communication was administered to 290 incoming freshmen at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf. Students responded to one of two types of a 38-item questionnaire: a multiple choice, or Likert-type (strongly agree...strongly…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer), Deafness
Finkler, Diana; And Others – 1979
The Student Learning Scales (SLS) were intended to supplement or replace existing college instructor performance scales, by focusing on the actions of learners and by providing students with an instrument for assessing their own learning reactions in a variety of instructional contexts. Factor analyses and validity studies were conducted to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Course Evaluation, Factor Structure, Higher Education
Osborne, R. Travis; Lindsey, James M. – 1965
A total of 125 white children from three counties in Georgia (selected as representative of small rural and medium and large industrial urban populations) were administered a battery of tests in three phases of their schooling: (1) during the summer preceding their admission to the first grade, (2) near the end of the first grade, and (3) near the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Concept Formation, Elementary School Students, Expressive Language

Klausmeier, Herbert J. – 1976
A model of conceptual learning and development that provides a framework for studying the course of cognitive development throughout the school years and also studying the learning concepts across short time intervals is discussed in this paper. The theory includes five main propositions. First, children learn four successively higher levels of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Objectives
Noble, Marjorie; Hervey, Sarah D. – 1968
The purposes of this study were (1) to identify the social-emotional and information-achievement characteristics of 133 children enrolled in Head Start and (2) to explore the interrelationships found to exist between social-emotional behavior, as assessed by the teacher at the outset of the program, and the gains exhibited over the year in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Rating Scales, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged
Jandt, Fred E. – 1973
Emanuel M. Berger's scale for testing the expressed acceptance of others is based on statements describing behavior, particularly verbal communicative behavior, of others, in a study of 561 subjects, Berger's scale evidenced need of modification in explaining small group interaction and especially the differing attitudinal responses of males' and…
Descriptors: Behavior Standards, Communication (Thought Transfer), Factor Analysis, Factor Structure
Smith, Janice P.; Brown, T. J. – 1976
To explore the potential relationships among general attitude toward school, evaluative ratings of courses and instructors, and selected respondent characteristics, an attitude inventory, and, for each class, a course and instructor rating scale, with items which emphasized the nature of student-teacher interaction and level of course difficulty,…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Correlation, Course Evaluation, Difficulty Level

Connell, James P. – Child Development, 1985
Describes a new 48-item self-report instrument, the Multidimensional Measure of Children's Perceptions of Control, which defines children's perceptions of control as understanding the locus of sufficient cause for success and failure. Three dimensions of third- through ninth-grade children's perceptions of control are assessed within three…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Comprehension, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education
Maine Department of Education, 2003
This document, a companion to the "LAS Guide Principles and Criteria for the Adoption of Local Assessment Systems," [ED484135] presents results that are intended to provide Maine's school administrative units with an option for selecting sample performance indicators to be assessed through the Local Assessment System to meet the…
Descriptors: State Standards, Standard Setting, State Programs, Classification

Byrne, Barbara M. – Multivariate Behavioral Research, 1991
The factorial validity of the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) and the equivalence of factorial measurements and structure across groups were studied for 163 intermediate-grade teachers, 162 secondary school teachers, and 218 university teachers in Canada. Reasons why the MBI may not be appropriate for university educators are discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Adjustment

Marsh, Herbert W. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1990
New academic self-concept measures were used to assess self-concepts for 234 boys in grades 5 and 6 (13 subjects) and 524 boys in grades 7 through 10 (16 subjects) at a Catholic boys school in Sydney (Australia) and to test the Marsh/Shavelson model. Academic self-concept is remarkably subject specific. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Education, Comparative Testing, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education

Mitchell, Mathew – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1993
A hypothetical construct of interest is proposed and tested in the mathematics classroom with 350 high school students. Results indicate that it is useful to distinguish between personal and situational interest. In addition, the structure of situational interest appears multifaceted, with five subfacets found in the high school mathematics…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Construct Validity, Factor Analysis, Factor Structure
Selby, Edwin C.; Treffinger, Donald J.; Isaksen, Scott G.; Lauer, Kenneth J. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2004
"VIEW: An Assessment of Problem Solving Style" (Selby, Treffinger, & Isaksen, 2002) is a new instrument for assessing problem-solving style, for use with individuals from ages 12 through adult. It measures three dimensions of style relating to creative problem solving and change management. In this article, we discuss the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Validity, Factor Structure, Problem Solving
Kim, Sooyeon; Kyllonen, Patrick C. – ETS Research Report Series, 2006
The Standardized Letter of Recommendation (SLR), a 28-item form, was created by ETS to supplement the qualitative rating of graduate school applicants' nonacademic qualities with a quantitative approach. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the following psychometric properties of the SLR using the Rasch rating-scale model: dimensionality,…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Rating Scales, Data Analysis, Models