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Fernet, Claude – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2011
Purpose: The aim of this study was to develop and validate a scale to assess work role motivation in school principals: the Work Role Motivation Scale for School Principals (WRMS-SP). The WRMS-SP is designed to measure intrinsic motivation, three types of extrinsic motivation (identified, introjected, and external), and amotivation with respect to…
Descriptors: French Canadians, Construct Validity, Measures (Individuals), Program Validation
Baig, Lubna; Violato, Claudio; Crutcher, Rodney – Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 2010
Introduction: The purpose of the study was to adduce evidence for estimating the construct validity of clinical competence measured through assessment instruments used for high-stakes examinations. Methods: Thirty-nine international physicians (mean age = 41 + 6.5 y) participated in high-stakes examination and 3-month supervised clinical practice…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physicians, Competence, Clinical Diagnosis
Thomas-Stonell, Nancy L.; Oddson, Bruce; Robertson, Bernadette; Rosenbaum, Peter L. – Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 2010
Aim: Our aim was to develop an outcome measure, called Focus on the Outcomes of Communication Under Six (FOCUS), that captures real-world changes in preschool children's communication. Conceptually grounded in the World Health Organization International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health framework, the FOCUS items were derived…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Outcomes of Treatment, Quality of Life, Construct Validity
Wintre, Maxine G.; Knoll, G. M.; Pancer, S. M.; Pratt, M. W.; Polivy, J.; Birnie-Lefcovitch, S.; Adams, Gerald R. – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2008
Freshmen students at six Canadian universities completed questionnaires that assessed the quality of match between their individual needs and their university environment. The Student-University Match Questionnaire (SUM), a theoretically derived scale, was developed and demonstrated excellent psychometric properties (Cronbach's alpha = 0.87).…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Student Attitudes, Predictive Validity, Questionnaires
Langevin, Marilyn; Kleitman, Sabina; Packman, Ann; Onslow, Mark – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2009
Background: Persistent calls for school-based education about stuttering necessitate a better understanding of peer attitudes toward children who stutter and a means to measure outcomes of such educational interventions. Langevin and Hagler in 2004 developed the Peer Attitudes Toward Children who Stutter scale (PATCS) to address these needs and…
Descriptors: Verbal Communication, Stuttering, Construct Validity, Factor Structure
Lauricella, Sharon; Kay, Robin – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2010
Considerable research has been conducted examining the use of laptops in higher education, however, a reliable and valid scale to assess in-class use of laptops has yet to be developed. The purpose of the following study was to develop and evaluate the "Laptop Effectiveness Scale" (LES). The scale consisted of four constructs: academic…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Higher Education, Construct Validity, Measures (Individuals)
A Multi-Component Model for Assessing Learning Objects: The Learning Object Evaluation Metric (LOEM)
Kay, Robin H.; Knaack, Liesel – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2008
While discussion of the criteria needed to assess learning objects has been extensive, a formal, systematic model for evaluation has yet to be thoroughly tested. The purpose of the following study was to develop and assess a multi-component model for evaluating learning objects. The Learning Object Evaluation Metric (LOEM) was developed from a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Models, Measurement Techniques, Evaluation Criteria

Cheng, Yuqiu; Stockdale, Margaret S. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2003
The construct validity of a three-component model of organizational commitment was tested with 226 Chinese employees. Affective and normative commitment significantly predicted job satisfaction; all three components predicted turnover intention. Compared with Canadian (n=603) and South Korean (n=227) samples, normative and affective commitment…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Cultural Context, Foreign Countries, Job Satisfaction
Zecevic, Aleksandra A.; Salmoni, Alan W.; Speechley, Mark; Vandervoort, Anthony A. – Gerontologist, 2006
Purpose: The purpose of this study was (a) to obtain information about the perceptions held by seniors and health care providers concerning what constitutes a fall and potential reasons for falling, and (b) to compare these perceptions to the research literature. Design and Methods: As part of a larger telephone survey, interviewers asked 477…
Descriptors: Telephone Surveys, Health Personnel, Interviews, Content Analysis

Fischer, Donald G.; Donatelli, Martin J. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1987
A 20-item Stress Adjective Checklist was administered to 565 Canadian undergraduate psychology students and factor analyzed. Both the three-factor and two-factor solutions were replicable and interpretable, but the two-factor solution (stress and arousal) was chosen. Suggestions for further research and refinement of the scales are made.…
Descriptors: Arousal Patterns, Construct Validity, Factor Analysis, Factor Structure

Caldwell, Linda L.; And Others – Journal of Leisure Research, 1992
Reports development of a battery of scales measuring four dimensions of adolescent leisure experience: boredom, awareness, anxiety, and challenge. Analysis confirmed the internal consistency reliability of a shortened version. Test-retest reliability was established over 12 months. Correlations with theoretically related measures suggested initial…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Construct Validity, Foreign Countries, Leisure Time
Sackville, Patricia – 1994
The validity of the Southam News 1987 survey of literacy in Canada was questioned relative to its content and structure. The survey viewed literacy as a set of complex information processing skills and adopted a hierarchical view of these skills. This hierarchy model set up illiteracy as a deficiency. The Southam study's underlying assumption was…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Construct Validity, Content Validity

Harrington, Thomas F. – Career Development Quarterly, 1991
Examined validity of Career Decision-Making System (CDM) by administering CDM to English- and Spanish-speaking subjects in the United States, English- and French-speaking subjects in Canada, and English-speaking subjects in Australia. Results suggest that translation from English to another language or use with persons of another nationality does…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Concurrent Validity, Construct Validity, Cross Cultural Studies

Alvi, Sabir A.; And Others – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1990
Compared five indices of differentiation for Holland's model for two data sets: Iachan's indices and Spokane and Walsh index. Tested differentiation and career decision relationship of Pakistani college students (N=376) and Canadian high school seniors (N=138). Found neither index superior in terms of criterion of relationship with career…
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Students, Construct Validity, Decision Making
Guay, Frederic – Journal of Career Assessment, 2005
The purpose of the present research was to develop and validate a measure of motivation toward career decision-making activities, the Career Decision-Making Autonomy Scale (CDMAS). The CDMAS is designed to assess the constructs of intrinsic motivation, identified regulation, introjected regulation, and external regulation. A longitudinal study was…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Student Motivation, Decision Making, Career Choice