No accessible French scale measures general motivation in post-secondary education while distinguishing various determinants of motivation to target students' perception of their learning experience. Given the many measures to support student retention implemented in post-secondary educational establishments, such an assessment instrument seems…

The aim of this study is to develop a valid and reliable scale that can be used to assess teachers' digital competencies. The research employed a survey design, one of the quantitative research methods. The sample of the study consisted of 463 teachers from various disciplines working in Kayseri during the 2023-2024 academic year. Initially, a…

This study aims to develop a financial literacy scale that can be used to assess the level of financial literacy among university students and the relevant age group. This study employs quantitative research methods and is a scale development study. The study group consists of 580 students enrolled at a state university during the 2023-2024…

Background/purpose: Critical thinking (CT) is fundamental in science education, but instruments to measure CT in specific domains, such as physics, are still limited. The present study aims to develop and validate the Critical Thinking Test in Temperature and Heat (CTTH), an instrument designed to measure critical thinking skills in the topic of…

"A Practical Guide to Language Assessment" helps educators at every level redefine their approach to language assessment. Grounded in extensive research and aligned with the latest advances in language education, this comprehensive guide introduces foundational concepts and explores key principles in test development and item writing.…

This study evaluates the performance of three leading AI chatbots--OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini, and Microsoft Bing Copilot--in answering multiple choice questions (MCQs) from the UGC-NET Education paper. Using 150 randomly selected questions from examination cycles between June 2019 and December 2023, the chatbots' accuracy was assessed…

Enemy items are two test items that should not be presented to a candidate on the same test. Identifying enemies is essential for personnel assessment, as they weaken the measurement precision and validity of a test. In this research, we examined the effectiveness of lexical and semantic natural language processing techniques for identifying enemy…

Online calibration estimates new item parameters alongside previously calibrated items, supporting efficient item replenishment. However, most existing online calibration procedures for Cognitive Diagnostic Computerized Adaptive Testing (CD-CAT) lack mechanisms to ensure content balance during live testing. This limitation can lead to uneven…

The "Woodock-Johnson V" Symbol Inhibition test is a measure of the inhibiting and updating aspects of executive functioning, developed for administration on the new "Riverside Score"™ digital platform. This paper describes the development of the Symbol Inhibition test, including the test design, norming and validity study data…

Short-form development is an important topic in psychometric research, which requires researchers to face methodological choices at different steps. The statistical techniques traditionally used for shortening tests, which belong to the so-called exploratory model, make assumptions not always verified in psychological data. This article proposes a…

We developed and provided initial validation for a 15-item scale for use with academics. In Phase 1, we utilized a review of the literature, focus groups, and expert feedback to generate 36 items. In Phase 2, we conducted item and exploratory factor analyses to reduce the number of items and assess the factor structure (N = 212; 51.4% female; mean…

Assessment is viewed as an important means to understand learners' performance in the learning process. A good assessment method is based on high-quality examination questions. However, generating high-quality examination questions manually by teachers is a time-consuming task, and it is not easy for students to obtain question banks. To solve…

Purpose: This article describes the development and validation of a survey designed to measure the vision of European agricultural advisors towards innovation. Design/Methodology/Approach: The items of the instrument were developed based on the conceptual framework provided by the position paper for the Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium.…

The aim of this study was to develop an instrument for assessing sixth-grade students' number sense skills in fractions and decimals. This study was conducted on 452 sixth graders (10-11 years old) from the western region of Turkey. The construct validity of the number sense test (NST) was examined via exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and…

Mediation analysis is an important statistical tool in many research fields, where the joint significance test is widely utilized for examining mediation effects. Nevertheless, the limitation of this mediation testing method stems from its conservative Type I error, which reduces its statistical power and imposes certain constraints on its…