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Statistical Anxiety and Attitudes towards Statistics: Criterion-Related Construct Validity of the HFS-R Questionnaire Revisited Using Rasch Models
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Nielsen, Tine; Kreiner, Svend – Cogent Education, 2021
In 2018, Nielsen and Kreiner provided evidence that the Attitudes and Relationship to Statistics--Revised (HFS-R) questionnaire provides essentially valid, objective, and reliable measurement of three statistical anxiety constructs and one statistical attitude construct among students of sociology and public health. The purpose of the study…
Descriptors: Statistics Education, Mathematics Anxiety, Student Attitudes, Construct Validity
The Specific Academic Learning Self-Efficacy and the Specific Academic Exam Self-Efficacy Scales: Construct and Criterion Validity Revisited Using Rasch Models
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Nielsen, Tine – Cogent Education, 2020
Academic self-efficacy is mostly construed as specific; task-specific, course-specific or domain-specific. Previous research in the Danish university context has shown that the self-efficacy subscale in the Motivated Strategies for Leaning Questionnaire is not a single scale, but consists of two separate course- and activity-specific scales; the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Self Efficacy, Test Wiseness, Construct Validity
The Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation Subscales of the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire: A Rasch-Based Construct Validity Study
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Nielsen, Tine – Cogent Education, 2018
The study is a first validity study investigating the psychometric properties of the Danish translation of the intrinsic and extrinsic motivation subscales of the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire in a higher education context. Rasch family measurement models were employed emphasizing unidimensionality, local independence of items,…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Incentives, Questionnaires, Learning Strategies
Measuring Statistical Anxiety and Attitudes toward Statistics: The Development of a Comprehensive Danish Instrument (HFS-R)
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Nielsen, Tine; Kreiner, Svend – Cogent Education, 2018
Motivated by experience with students' psychological barriers to learning statistics, we modified and extended the Statistical Anxiety Rating Scale (STARS) to develop a contemporary and valid (face, content, criterion and construct) Danish measure of attitudes and relationship towards statistics for use with higher education students taking…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Statistics, Mathematics Anxiety, Test Construction
Measuring Academic Learning and Exam Self-Efficacy at Admission to University and Its Relation to First-Year Attrition: An IRT-Based Multi-Program Validity Study
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Nielsen, Tine; Friderichsen, Ida Sophie; Hartkopf, Bjarke Tarpgaard – Frontline Learning Research, 2019
Self-efficacy is associated with both academic performance and attrition in higher education. Whether it is possible to measure students' academic self-efficacy after admission and prior to commencing higher education (i.e. pre-academic self-efficacy) in a valid and reliable way has hardly been studied. Aims: 1) to evaluate the construct validity…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Academic Achievement, Higher Education, College Admission