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Bai, Xuemei; Gu, Xiaoqing; Guo, Rifa – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
This study aimed to verify the applicability of the community of inquiry (CoI) survey instrument in MOOC involving 1,186 college students from 11 different disciplines in China. Exploratory factor analysis was used to explore potential factor structure models, and confirmatory factor analysis was utilized to verify the four-factor structure…
Descriptors: Models, Audits (Verification), Construct Validity, Communities of Practice
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She, Long; Khoshnavay Fomani, Fatemeh; Marôco, João; Allen, Kelly-Ann; Sharif Nia, Hamid; Rahmatpour, Pardis – Asian Association of Open Universities Journal, 2023
Purpose: Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in China, student engagement in online learning has been a critical issue for all educational institutions. The university student engagement inventory (USEI) is the most used scale for assessing the construct of student engagement. The present study aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, College Students, Learner Engagement, Foreign Countries
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Affum-Osei, Emmanuel; Goto, Sharon G.; Yeung, June Chun; Wang, Rong; Lam, Hodar; Abdul-Nasiru, Inusah; Chan, Darius K.-S. – Journal of Career Development, 2021
This study validates Shane et al.'s Entrepreneurial Career Motives Scale across nations. A total sample of 948 undergraduate and postgraduate students from five nations (China = 229, Hong Kong = 213, Holland = 136, United States = 155, and Ghana = 215) were recruited to complete a survey designed to measure their entrepreneurial motives and other…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Entrepreneurship, Questionnaires
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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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Jones, Brett D.; Khajavy, Gholam Hassan; Li, Ming; Mohamed, Hanaa Ezzat; Reilly, Peter – SAGE Open, 2023
This study examined whether the five scales of the MUSIC Model of Academic Motivation Inventory produced valid scores when used in university English language courses across four different countries. We surveyed 1,147 students in English language courses in Iran, Mexico, China, and Egypt and analyzed their responses by performing measurement…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Student Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Chunlei Gao; Mingqing Jian; Ailin Yuan – SAGE Open, 2024
The Digital Stress Scale (DSS) is used to measure digital stress, which is the perceived stress and anxiety associated with social media use. In this study, the Chinese version of the DSS was validated using a sample of 721 Chinese college students, 321 males and 400 females (KMO = 0.923; Bartlett = 5,058.492, p < 0.001). Confirmatory factor…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Factor Analysis, Psychometrics, Anxiety
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Tan, Tony Xing; Liu, Yanhong; Li, Gen; Yi, Zhiyao – Journal of College and Character, 2022
Increase in individualism and a coinciding increase in anxiety among Chinese youth propelled our inquiry on Chinese college students' self-construals and their anxiety. We surveyed 335 Chinese college students (females: n = 229; 68.4%) aged 18-24 (M = 19.30, SD = 1.16) on their self-construals and anxiety. We found that the students scored…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Self Concept, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes
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Ali, Zulqurnain; Ghani, Usman; Islam, Zia U.; Mehreen, Aqsa – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2020
The emergence of self-career management has pushed individuals to manage their careers proactively and evade unexpected events. The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a career shocks scale for use in Chinese organizations. In doing so, we developed a comprehensive scale of career shocks to cover a significant gray area of career…
Descriptors: Career Development, Self Management, Measures (Individuals), Organizations (Groups)
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Fu, Mingchen; Zhang, Li-Fang – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2019
The article describes the development and validation of the Career Personality Styles Inventory (CPSI). The CPSI comprehensively assesses Holland's career personality styles with only 22 items. Based on a series of 3 studies, we found satisfactory internal consistency, factor structure, and criterion validities of the newly constructed CPSI.
Descriptors: Personality Measures, Vocational Interests, Interest Inventories, Test Reliability
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Chen, Xiaomeng; Lu, Minghui; Bu, Wenfeng; Wang, Li; Wang, Yuru; Xu, Yulin; Zhong, Mingbo – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2021
Introduction: Numerous studies have investigated the use of Wechsler tests on individuals with visual impairments. However, few studies have examined the utilization of the fourth edition of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-IV) for such individuals. This study investigated the reliability and validity of the WISC-IV Verbal…
Descriptors: Blindness, Verbal Ability, Reliability, Factor Analysis
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Liu, Meng – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
The present study contributes to the field of L2 motivation by exploring the link between emotional experience in language learning and motivational self from a multilingual perspective. Specifically, it evaluated the empirical support for the validity of the ideal multilingual self on simultaneous language learners in China and assessed the…
Descriptors: Self Concept, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Gu, Jianjun; Xu, Meidan; Hong, Jonchao – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2019
Technological literacy (TL) as the goal of technology education guides the construction of the technology education curriculum in China. Previous studies investigating technological literacy were limited to K-12 students and had some ambiguities in the definition of technology, theoretical framework, and assessed criterion, and a measurement…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Test Construction, Construct Validity, Surveys
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Yu, Lu; Zhu, Xiaoqin; Shek, Daniel T. L.; Zou, Xiao-Bing; Deng, Hong-Zhu; Au Yeung, Peter W. H. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2019
The Psychoeducational Profile 3rd Edition (PEP-3) is a comprehensive assessment tool designed for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Although its original English version has been validated, few validation studies have been conducted on translated versions including Chinese ones. Based on 554 Chinese children with ASD and 311 typically…
Descriptors: Psychoeducational Methods, Profiles, Measures (Individuals), Autism
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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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Zheng, Xiao-Li; Gu, Xin-Yan; Lai, Wen-Hua; Tu, Yun-Fang; Hwang, Gwo-Jen; Wang, Feng – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2023
At present, with the rapid development of the internet and the gradual promotion of online collaborative learning, the social regulation of learning is receiving increasing attention, which involves socially shared metacognition, one facet of social metacognition. To date, social regulation of learning or socially shared metacognition have been…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Content Validity, Cooperative Learning, Undergraduate Students
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