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Peter, Mwinwelle; Benjamin, Amoakohene; Nicholas, Agyekum Obeng – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2020
Previous works on the analysis of anthems have focused on unearthing encoded latent meanings through the analysis of linguistic devices such as cohesive devices, deictic expressions, figures of speech, content words and clauses. However, the analysis of institutional anthems as a sub-genre of anthems has received minimal attention in linguistic…
Descriptors: Universities, Phrase Structure, Connected Discourse, Guidelines
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Knekta, Eva; Rowland, Ashley A.; Corwin, Lisa A.; Eddy, Sarah – International Journal of STEM Education, 2020
Boosting students' disciplinary interest has long been considered an important mechanism to increase student success and retention in STEM education. Yet, interest is a complex construct and can mean different things to different people, and many of the existing interest questionnaires do not identify a specific theoretical framework underlying…
Descriptors: Student Interests, STEM Education, Undergraduate Students, Biology
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Obara, Samuel – Issues in the Undergraduate Mathematics Preparation of School Teachers, 2020
This paper discusses strategies that two high school geometry teachers employed to solve a challenging geometry problem with the aid of dynamic geometry software (The Geometer's Sketchpad (GSP). The teachers were part of a group of teachers who participated in a summer professional institute funded by the National Science Foundation. The paper…
Descriptors: Computer Software Evaluation, High School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Geometry
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Gray, Emma – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2020
Background: The Questionnaire on Attitudes Consistent with Sexual Offending (QACSO) is an assessment developed by Lindsay, Whitefield, Carson, Broxholme and Steptoe (2004). The QACSO was designed to assess cognitive distortions relating to sexual offending in males with intellectual disabilities (ID). Cognitive distortions form part of the offence…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Attitude Measures, Sexual Abuse, Crime
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Pester, Danielle A.; Lenz, A. Stephen; Watson, Joshua C. – Counselor Education and Supervision, 2020
As counselor preparation programs are compelled to demonstrate student social and cultural competence, valid inventories are needed to measure development consistent with contemporary standards. The Intersectional Privilege Screening Inventory was created for this purpose, was assessed using 4 types of validity evidence, and has results supporting…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Counselor Training, Screening Tests, Test Validity
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Karayol, Metin; Turhan, Muhammed Ozkan – African Educational Research Journal, 2020
The aim of this study was to develop a tool in order to measure the impact of music on the sportive activities. The study group 170 professional athletes, who are actively playing in the municipal sport club in Istanbul in basketball, physically disabled (swimming), wrestling, judo, karate, taekwondo, volleyball, swimming, and fitness branches.…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Test Reliability, Athletes
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McQuillin, Samuel D.; Lyons, Michael D.; Clayton, Rebecca J.; Anderson, Jacqueline R. – Applied Developmental Science, 2020
Like many youth development programs, most youth mentoring programs do not have prescribed practices that target specific outcomes. Because the construct of mentoring represents a broad range of potential activities, researchers face a conundrum when making generalizable causal inferences about the effects of this and similar services. On the one…
Descriptors: Mentors, Program Evaluation, Youth Programs, Adolescent Development
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McGill, Ryan J.; Ward, Thomas J.; Canivez, Gary L. – School Psychology International, 2020
The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) is the most widely used intelligence test in the world. Now in its fifth edition, the WISC-V has been translated and adapted for use in nearly a dozen countries. Despite its popularity, numerous concerns have been raised about some of the procedures used to develop and validate translated and…
Descriptors: Children, Intelligence Tests, Translation, Test Validity
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Peixoto, Francisco; Silva, José Castro; Pipa, Joana; Wosnitza, Marold; Mansfield, Caroline – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2020
This article presents the validation of the Multidimensional Teachers' Resilience Scale (MTRS) for Portuguese teachers and proposes a hierarchical model to represent teachers' resilience. Participants were 334 Portuguese teachers from elementary to secondary school who responded to the MTRS and a global measure of teachers' resilience.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Resilience (Psychology), Measures (Individuals), Teacher Characteristics
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Kandemir, Mehmet Ali; Kaufman, James C. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2020
One common self-assessment of creativity is the Kaufman Domains of Creativity Scale (K-DOCS). This article provides support for a Turkish translation of the instrument, offering exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis to determine whether the factors were consistent across cultures. The participants consisted of two groups. The first group…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Creativity Tests, Majors (Students), Creativity
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Lugton, Emily; Brown, Ted; Stagnitti, Karen – Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools & Early Intervention, 2020
It is important for assessments used by occupational therapists to have documented evidence of their validity. This adds to the knowledge about what specific factors assessments measure and inform their utility for use in clinical practice by occupational therapists. The convergent validity between the Children's Assessment of Participation and…
Descriptors: Measurement Techniques, Test Validity, Play, Childhood Interests
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Mansolf, Maxwell; Vreeker, Annabel; Reise, Steven P.; Freimer, Nelson B.; Glahn, David C.; Gur, Raquel E.; Moore, Tyler M.; Pato, Carlos N.; Pato, Michele T.; Palotie, Aarno; Holm, Minna; Suvisaari, Jaana; Partonen, Timo; Kieseppä, Tuula; Paunio, Tiina; Boks, Marco; Kahn, René; Ophoff, Roel A.; Bearden, Carrie E.; Loohuis, Loes Olde; Teshiba, Terri; deGeorge, Daniella; Bilder, Robert M. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2020
Large-scale studies spanning diverse project sites, populations, languages, and measurements are increasingly important to relate psychological to biological variables. National and international consortia already are collecting and executing mega-analyses on aggregated data from individuals, with different measures on each person. In this…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Data Analysis, Measurement, Validity
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Serrano Rodríguez, Rocío; Amor Almedina, María Isabel; Guzman Cedeño, Ángel; Guerrero-Casado, José – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2020
This study is to design and validate an instrument to evaluate the level of development of teaching competences (academic, social, personal, and instrumental) of the university teachers. Exploratory and confirmatory analyses are applied to validate the theoretical model. The results confirm that the "University Teaching Competence Scale"…
Descriptors: Faculty Evaluation, College Faculty, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Competencies
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Putranta, Himawan; Wiyatmo, Yusman; Supahar, X. X.; Dwandaru, Wipsar Sunu Brams – Physics Education, 2020
Physics learning cannot be separated from the existence of physics measuring instruments, but their existence in schools are very limited. Therefore, creativity and innovation are needed to develop physics measuring instruments that are easily accessible by schools. This research aims to design and construct a liquid density measuring instrument…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Education, Science Instruction, Science Equipment
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Kilmen, Sevilay; Arikan, Serkan – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2020
Perfectionism is a crucial concept in psychology as perfectionism has been found to be related to many important factors affecting daily and academic life. Many researchers have tried to measure perfectionism since 1980. Following an extensive literature review, Smith, Saklofske, Stoeber, and Sherry developed a new perfectionism scale called Big…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Personality Measures, Factor Structure, Foreign Countries
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