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Juan Wang; Xiaoqing Liu; Xiaoyan Wang; Xinglong Jin; Xinshi Wu; Song Xue – Journal of Chemical Education, 2023
This study aims to evaluate the laboratory safety perception, awareness and attitude of undergraduates toward the chemistry teaching laboratory by means of a self-administered questionnaire. The survey contains a sample size of 959 undergraduates in Tianjin University of Technology involving four schools. Instrument reliability and validity are…
Descriptors: Laboratory Safety, Laboratory Procedures, Chemistry, Reliability
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Sorgente, Angela; Tagliabue, Semira; Andrade, Claudia; Oliveira, José Egidio; Duan, Wenjie; Lanz, Margherita – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2021
This study tested factorial structure, reliability as well as gender, age, and cultural measurement invariance of the Brief Inventory of Thriving (BIT). Data were collected from 981 Italian, Portuguese, and Chinese emerging adults. Results showed that BIT scores were reliable, mono-dimensional, and suitable to assess thriving across different…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Age Differences, Cultural Differences, Error of Measurement
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Huaxia Xiong; Mingfeng Xue; Guan Di; Yaqing Mao; Enhui Qiao – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2024
The impact of teachers' beliefs on the implementation and effectiveness of Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) programs underscores the essential need for reliable measures of these beliefs. This study aims to explore and validate the psychometric properties of the Teacher Social and Emotional Learning Beliefs Scale (TSELBS) within the Chinese…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Teacher Attitudes, Program Effectiveness, Correlation
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Hu, Xinyang; Jiang, Yanxia; Bi, Hualin – International Journal of STEM Education, 2022
Background: In many countries and regions, such as the United States, Europe and China, a trend has emerged in which students' enthusiasm for STEM is declining. This decline may be related to students' lack of science self-efficacy. An accurate examination of students' science self-efficacy can provide a research foundation for how to cultivate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, STEM Education, Self Efficacy, Test Construction
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Shang, Weiwei; Yu, Tianzuo; Wang, Ji; Sun, Di; Su, Jiming – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2022
China's education system faces a loss of teachers and a decline in education quality, and the new fertility policy means that the demand for teachers will increase. Against this background, the motivations and perceptions of pre-service teachers (N= 2618) were investigated. The Factors Influencing Teaching Choice instrument was used, and its…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career Choice, Teaching (Occupation), Teacher Motivation
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Chen, Xinjie; He, Jinbo; Fan, Xitao – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2020
This study examined the cross-cultural validity of the Ego-Resilience Scale (ER89) in the Chinese cultural context. The ER89 was translated and culturally adapted into Chinese by following the psychometric validation procedures, in an adolescent sample (N = 943) of 13- to 18-year-olds. A series of psychometric analyses were conducted, including…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Concept Measures, Resilience (Psychology), Adolescents
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Gao, Chunlei; Bi, Xueke – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2023
Education systems focus on issues related to school effects and differences. School effects are used as a basis for accountability in various countries including China. This study investigated the stability and cross-disciplinary consistency of value-added estimates based on student scores in selected schools in a city in central China. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Accountability, Educational Policy, Outcomes of Education
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Jing Guo; Adelina Asmawi – SAGE Open, 2024
This study aimed at exploring the level, preference, and use of communication skills among undergraduate students in an online EFL learning context and to examine whether there are significant differences according to their gender and mode of study. A survey method was applied through quantitative data collection. For this purpose, a questionnaire…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Online Courses, Computer Mediated Communication, Undergraduate Students
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Wei, Rining; Jiang, He; Kong, Mengxia – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
Trilingualism is a powerful fact of life in many parts of the world, including most autonomous regions inhabited by minority ethnic groups in China. Although much research has been conducted on the language attitudes of stakeholders from minority ethnic groups, the attitudinal object is usually an individual language (e.g. the ethnic language, the…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Language Attitudes, Multilingualism
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Xu, Meidan; Williams, John P.; Gu, Jianjun – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2020
Pupils' attitudes towards technology have been widely discussed for over three decades, but the equally important topic of teachers' attitudes towards technology has not gained similar attention. To address this gap, the technology teachers' attitude towards technology (TTATT) scale was developed and validated by pilot testing with 140 Chinese…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technology Education, Teacher Attitudes, High School Teachers
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Yan, Weili; Siegert, Richard J.; Zhou, Hao; Zou, Xiaobing; Wu, Lijie; Luo, Xuerong; Li, Tingyu; Huang, Yi; Guan, Hongyan; Chen, Xiang; Mao, Meng; Xia, Kun; Zhang, Lan; Li, Erzhen; Li, Chunpei; Zhang, Xudong; Zhou, Yuanfeng; Shih, Andy; Fombonne, Eric; Zheng, Yi; Han, Jisheng; Sun, Zhongsheng; Jiang, Yong-hui; Wang, Yi – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2021
The recent adaptation of a Chinese parent version of the Autism Spectrum Rating Scale showed the Modified Chinese Autism Spectrum Rating Scale to be reliable and valid for use in China. The aim of this study was to test the Modified Chinese Autism Spectrum Rating Scale for fit to the Rasch model. We analysed data from a previous study of the…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Parent Attitudes, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Luo, Tian; Wang, Jian; Liu, Xiufeng; Zhou, Jiangping – International Journal of Science Education, 2019
The aim of this study was to develop a scale to measure students' STEM continuing motivation (CM). In accordance with the conceptualisation of CM by Maehr (1976. Continuing motivation: An analysis of a seldom considered educational outcome. "Review of Educational Research," 46(3), 443-462. doi:10.3102/00346543046003443), we define STEM…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Student Motivation, Measures (Individuals), Grade 7
Chi, Shaohui – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The Performance Expectations described in the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) pose significant challenges for assessment design. Multiple models of assessments, including paper-and-pencil and hands-on based performance assessments, can be utilized to assess student competency while applying scientific and engineering practices, in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Testing, Science Education, Academic Standards
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Xu, Jian; Qiu, Xuyan – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2022
This study aimed to develop and validate two parallel scales to measure the psychological L2 speaking and listening needs of 863 English-as-a-foreign language (EFL) learners. The associations between three psychological needs (i.e., autonomy, competence, and relatedness) of L2 speaking and of L2 listening were examined to develop insights into…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Gender Differences, Majors (Students)
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Korkmaz, Özgen; Bai, Xuemei – Participatory Educational Research, 2019
The purpose of this study is to adapt the computational thinking scale to Chinese. The study group consists of 1015 students. The study was performed in the descriptive scanning model. The final version of the scale was corrected in line with the opinions of the language experts who received the items translated from Turkish to Chinese.…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, High School Students, Thinking Skills, Chinese
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