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Yinying Wang; Joonkil Ahn – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2025
School leadership research literature has a large number of widely used constructs. Could fewer constructs bring more clarity? This study evaluates construct content validity, defined as the extent to which a measure's items reflect a theoretical content domain, in school leadership literature. To do so, we reviewed 29 articles that used Teaching…
Descriptors: Network Analysis, Construct Validity, Content Validity, Instructional Leadership
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Julian Schuessler; Peter Selb – Sociological Methods & Research, 2025
Directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) are now a popular tool to inform causal inferences. We discuss how DAGs can also be used to encode theoretical assumptions about nonprobability samples and survey nonresponse and to determine whether population quantities including conditional distributions and regressions can be identified. We describe sources of…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Graphs, Error of Measurement, Statistical Bias
Ashley P. Finley; Hans-Jörg Tiede – American Association of Colleges and Universities, 2025
This study was conducted to understand the experiences, views, and characteristics of faculty at US colleges and universities related to aspects of academic freedom, freedom of expression, and civil discourse. The population under study involved individuals who, between December 2022 and December 2023, had any instructional duties and/or served in…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Academic Freedom
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Stefanie A. Wind; Benjamin Lugu; Yurou Wang – International Journal of Testing, 2025
Mokken Scale Analysis (MSA) is a nonparametric approach that offers exploratory tools for understanding the nature of item responses while emphasizing invariance requirements. MSA is often discussed as it relates to Rasch measurement theory, which also emphasizes invariance, but uses parametric models. Researchers who have compared and combined…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Scaling, Surveys, Evaluation Methods
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Markus Gangl – Sociological Methods & Research, 2025
Rating scales are ubiquitous in the social sciences, yet may present practical difficulties when response formats change over time or vary across surveys. To allow researchers to pool rating data across alternative question formats, the article provides a generalization of the ordered logit model that accommodates multiple scale formats in the…
Descriptors: Rating Scales, Surveys, Responses, Models
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Shujun Liu; Luke Sloan; Tarek Al Baghal; Matthew Williams; Curtis Jessop; Paulo Serôdio – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2025
Linking survey and social media data has gained popularity. However, obtaining consent from respondents to link social media is a known challenge. Using data from a nationally representative survey of the U.K. this study investigated whether respondents' a) activity frequency, b) activity variety and c) technical skills with smartphones are…
Descriptors: Surveys, Hypermedia, Social Media, Privacy
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Ádám Stefkovics – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2025
Interviewer effects in telephone surveys on political topics are likely to occur. The literature has yielded considerable evidence about the impact of basic interviewer characteristics, but research is lacking on how interviewers' beliefs may shape responses. This study is aimed at assessing the association between the interviewers' party…
Descriptors: Interviews, Political Attitudes, Telephone Surveys, Political Issues
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David C. R. Kerr; Harold Bae – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Objective: We considered the utility of National College Health Assessment (NCHA) data relative to other national data for studying college students' cannabis use and binge drinking, and drug policy effects. Participants: Survey data on 18-22-year old college students were drawn from the 2008-2018 NCHA, National Survey on Drug Use and Health…
Descriptors: Student Surveys, Marijuana, Drug Use, Alcohol Abuse
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Ming-Chi Tseng – Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2025
This study aims to estimate the latent interaction effect in the CLPM model through a two-step multiple imputation analysis. The estimation of within x within and between x within latent interaction under the CLPM model framework is compared between the one-step Bayesian LMS method and the two-step multiple imputation analysis through a simulation…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Bayesian Statistics, Self Esteem, Depression (Psychology)
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Roman Auriga; André Pirralha; Friederike Schlücker; Götz Lechner; Anna Passmann – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2025
Mailing campaigns are a way to keep longitudinal survey respondents engaged. While mailings usually include a survey answer request, sometimes respondents are contacted between-waves to update contact information or simply to keep respondent contact. Research on the actual impact of these between-wave contacts on response rates is scarce. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Mail Surveys, Research Methodology
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Muhammad Saifullah Khalid; Yang Hong; Jannat Bibi; Balqees Fatima; Qi Zhanyong – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2025
Teachers' roles are dynamic among all the factors contributing to educational achievements. Teachers' performance is an important factor associated with policy implementation and organizational outcomes. This article elicited the teachers' perceptions of fundamental factors affecting the teaching profession. The study conducted a focus group…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Focus Groups, Online Surveys
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Dana M. Williams – Research in Higher Education, 2025
The gap between predicted and actual outcomes--following a university's removal of their controversial Native American nickname--may be rather wide. This study investigates what alumni threaten or promise to do upon a potential school nickname change, and what actual actions result once change does occur. The University of North Dakota's (UND)…
Descriptors: Donors, Alumni, Attitudes, Behavior
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Hayley B. McKown; Christopher B. Merica; Cate A. Egan – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2025
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to better understand Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program (CSPAP) curricular offerings related to physical activity leadership training competencies that occur within physical education teacher education programs across the United States. Methods: Physical education teacher education program…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Education, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
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Michael Fitzgerald; Saeed Salimpour; David McKinnon; Rachel Freed; Dan Reichart – Journal for STEM Education Research, 2025
There has been a sustained interest in student perceptions about STEM fields and their choice of careers over the past few decades. Research has shown that there is a decline in students pursuing STEM careers, and this has raised global concern. Despite these issues, no unistructural, broad, parsimonious and unambiguous quantitative instrument…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, STEM Careers, Undergraduate Students, Career Choice
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Ryan S. Wells; Ling Chen; Ezekiel Kimball; Betty Annan; Scott M. Auerbach; Justin T. Fermann – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2025
Teamwork and collaboration are twenty-first century skills valued by STEM employers for addressing the most urgent problems in society. To prepare undergraduate STEM students, they must graduate valuing teamwork and collaboration. The Integrated Concentration in STEM (iCons) program aims to meet this goal by utilizing interdisciplinary team-based…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Teamwork
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