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Muro, Andres – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Overwhelming evidence shows that domestic violence is a very serious problem affecting women in the United States. Black et al. (2010) report that approximately 34 million women in the United States, or approximately 30%, have experienced some form of violence including rape, physical, violence, and/or stalking in their lifetimes. Twenty-two…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Test Construction, Test Validity, Family Violence
Malinovski, Toni; Vasileva-Stojanovska, Tatjana; Jovevski, Dobri; Vasileva, Marina; Trajkovik, Vladimir – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2015
Distance education learning environments provide tremendous convenience and flexibility, allowing busy, mobile adult learners to engage in education while coping with their limited resources in terms of time, energy and finances. Following a student-centered approach this study investigates adult students' subjective perceptions while using…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Distance Education, Educational Environment, Videoconferencing
Development of an Instrument to Measure Teaching Style in Japan: The Teaching Style Assessment Scale
Yoshida, Fumiko; Conti, Gary J.; Yamauchi, Toyoaki; Iwasaki, Takaaki – Journal of Adult Education, 2014
Teaching style has been a popular concept for many years. Teaching style refers to the distinct qualities displayed by a teacher that are persistent from situation to situation regardless of the content. The Principles of Adult Learning Scale (PALS) has been used extensively in the West for measuring teaching style in relationship to the adult…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Styles, Test Construction, Adult Learning
Lovorn, Michael G.; Rezaei, Ali Reza – Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 2011
Recent studies report that the use of rubrics may not improve the reliability of assessment if raters are not well trained on how to design and employ them effectively. The intent of this two-phase study was to test if training pre-service and new in-service teachers in the construction, use, and evaluation of rubrics would improve the reliability…
Descriptors: Scoring Rubrics, Training, Preservice Teacher Education, Inservice Teacher Education
Wehmeyer, Michael L.; Tasse, Marc J.; Davies, Daniel K.; Stock, Stephen – Journal of Special Education Technology, 2012
People with and without disabilities value the goals of greater control and self-determination, participation in their school or community, and enhanced social inclusion. Technology is an important support in achieving these goals. In this article we examine the intensity of the support needs of persons with intellectual disability (ID), as…
Descriptors: Mental Retardation, Adults, Comorbidity, Physical Disabilities
Gilbert, Paul A.; Rhodes, Scott D. – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2012
Social support is protective for a variety of health outcomes, and individuals living outside their country of origin ("sojourners") might use social support in distinctive ways. The authors performed a confirmatory factor analysis of the 18-item Index of Sojourner Social Support (ISSS) using data obtained from 190 Spanish-speaking…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Reliability, Factor Structure, Factor Analysis
Casey, Michelle M.; Prasad, Shailendra; Klingner, Jill; Moscovice, Ira – Journal of Rural Health, 2012
Context: Quality measures focused on outpatient settings are of increasing interest to policy makers, but little research has been conducted on hospital outpatient quality measures, especially in rural settings. Purpose: To evaluate the relevance of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) outpatient quality measures for rural hospitals,…
Descriptors: Expertise, Hospitals, Measurement Techniques, Surgery
Beltekin, Nurettin – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2016
Problem Statement: Historically, Turkey is an immigrant country. It has experienced various migration waves from Asia, Awrupa and Africa. Recently, Turkey has confronted a huge wave of migration. Turkey tries to meet many needs besides the educational needs of refugees, but there is not enough study on refugees in the field of educational sciences…
Descriptors: Refugees, Educational Attainment, Standards, Access to Education
Spry, Nandila; Marchant, Teresa – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2014
Gender equity and the empowerment of women is a significant international issue. Successful adult education programs are vital to enhance women's situation. Lessons learned from a personal development program provided for thousands of women are analysed. The program is conducted by community service providers in Australia and internationally, with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Individual Development, Females, Empowerment
Schwartz, Joni – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2014
This article, based on an ethnographic study of an urban General Education Development (GED) program, suggests that for some marginalized young men of color, Adult education programs are counter-spaces of spatial justice in opposition to previous negative school spaces. Framed by critical race theory (CRT) and drawing on critical geography and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Males, High School Equivalency Programs, African American Students
Frasier, Lori D.; Thraen, Ioana; Kaplan, Rich; Goede, Patricia – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2012
Objectives: The training of physicians, nurse examiners, social workers and other health professional on the evidentiary findings of sexual abuse in children is challenging. Our objective was to develop peer reviewed training cases for medical examiners of child sexual abuse, using a secure web based telehealth application (TeleCAM). Methods:…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Sexual Abuse, Child Abuse, Clinical Teaching (Health Professions)
Torpey, Elka Maria – Occupational Outlook Quarterly, 2011
When taking a standardized test, one wants it to be fair and objective. Catherine McClellan makes sure that it is. Catherine is a psychometrician. Like many in this occupation, she designs, scores, and analyzes data from exams. Psychometrics is the science of measuring psychological attributes, such as intelligence or understanding. Tests are one…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Standardized Tests, Test Construction, Occupational Information
Dunstan, Debra A.; Anderson, Donnah L.; Marks, Anthony D. G. – Early Education and Development, 2015
Research Findings: Emotional and social competence are critical to a child's current and future well-being. A. D. Paterson et al. (2012) studied a sample of mothers and proposed that an adult's approach to the socialization of a child's emotions can be summarized in his or her parenting style as measured by the Emotion-Related Parenting Styles…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Socialization, Emotional Development, Gender Differences
Gomez, Laura E.; Arias, Benito; Verdugo, Miguel Angel; Navas, Patricia – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2012
Background: Most instruments that assess quality of life have been validated by means of the classical test theory (CTT). However, CTT limitations have resulted in the development of alternative models, such as the Rasch rating scale model (RSM). The main goal of this paper is testing and improving the psychometric properties of the INTEGRAL…
Descriptors: Evidence, Models, Mental Retardation, Quality of Life
Cooksy, Leslie J.; Mark, Melvin M. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2012
Attention to evaluation quality is commonplace, even if sometimes implicit. Drawing on her 2010 Presidential Address to the American Evaluation Association, Leslie Cooksy suggests that evaluation quality depends, at least in part, on the intersection of three factors: (a) evaluator competency, (b) aspects of the evaluation environment or context,…
Descriptors: Competence, Context Effect, Educational Resources, Educational Quality