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Zielinska, Aleksandra; Lebuda, Izabela; Karwowski, Maciej – Creativity Research Journal, 2022
Self-report scales have become the most widely used instruments to capture people's self-perception of creativity. Previous studies, however, provided only a limited insight into the psychometric properties of such measures. This paper reports an extensive item response theory (IRT) analysis of the Short Scale of Creative Self (SSCS): one of the…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Likert Scales, Creativity, Psychometrics
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Stepien-Nycz, Malgorzata; Bosacki, Sandra; Bialecka-Pikul, Marta – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2021
The theory of mind (ToM) is the ability to understand mental states in others. The previous research has highlighted age- and language-dependent effects during childhood and provided inconsistent data regarding the role of gender. Notably, these variables were rarely studied simultaneously among adolescents. Accordingly, this short longitudinal…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Gender Differences, Age Differences, Adolescent Development
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Karwowski, Maciej; Milerski, Boguslaw – Education Sciences, 2021
This paper introduces and empirically tests the model of tetragonal educational rationality that consists of four interrelated categories: hermeneutic, emancipatory, praxeological, and negational rationalities. Based on a large longitudinal study on primary and middle school students (total N = 1990), we investigated the psychometric properties of…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Factor Structure
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Batchelor, Katherine – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2019
The purpose of this six-week, naturalistic inquiry study was to explore how middle school students at an international school in Warsaw, Poland experienced embodied literacies in their drama elective and their experience with revision through students' creations of performance and puppetry vignettes that represented their fictional stories. This…
Descriptors: Drama, Play, Writing Processes, Foreign Countries
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Karwowski, Maciej; Gralewski, Jacek – Thinking Skills and Creativity, 2013
The threshold hypothesis (TH) assumes the existence of complex relations between creative abilities and intelligence: linear associations below 120 points of IQ and weaker or lack of associations above the threshold. However, diverse results have been obtained over the last six decades--some confirmed the hypothesis and some rejected it. In this…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Item Response Theory, Creativity, Creative Thinking
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Braeken, Johan; Blömeke, Sigrid – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2016
Using data from the international Teacher Education and Development Study: Learning to Teach Mathematics (TEDS-M), the measurement equivalence of teachers' beliefs across countries is investigated for the case of "mathematics-as-a fixed-ability". Measurement equivalence is a crucial topic in all international large-scale assessments and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Bayesian Statistics, Test Bias, Teacher Education