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Ting Ma; Lawrence Jun Zhang; Judy M. Parr – Language Awareness, 2025
Studies have shown that raising L2 learners' metaphor awareness contributes to the acquisition of figurative language, which fosters students' development of language skills. However, the instruments measuring metaphor awareness, in the majority of relevant research, did not seem to have undergone proper methodological procedures for checking…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Figurative Language
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Qiong Wu; Liping Gu – Sociological Methods & Research, 2024
Family income questions in general purpose surveys are usually collected with either a single-question summary design or a multiple-question disaggregation design. It is unclear how estimates from the two approaches agree with each other. The current paper takes advantage of a large-scale survey that has collected family income with both methods.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Income, Questionnaires, Research Design
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Jesus Alfonso D. Datu; Ming Ming Chiu; Nino Jose Mateo; Lan Yang – International Journal of STEM Education, 2024
Past studies of grit's educational benefits, such as science engagement, showed mixed results across cultures. So, we elaborated the prior model of grit (perseverance of effort, consistency of interest) with "adaptability to situations" (forming a "triarchic model of grit" TMG), and tested TMG's relation to subsequent science…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Persistence, High School Students, Learner Engagement
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Chia-Ying Chu; Pei-Hua Chen; Yi-Shin Tsai; Chieh-An Chen; Yi-Chih Chan; Yan-Jhe Ciou – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2024
This study investigated the impact of language sample length on mean length of utterance (MLU) and aimed to determine the minimum number of utterances required for a reliable MLU. Conversations were collected from Mandarin-speaking, hard-of-hearing and typical-hearing children aged 16-81 months. The MLUs were calculated using sample sizes ranging…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mandarin Chinese, Young Children, Language Acquisition
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Biru Chang; Jiajian Wang; Jun Cai – Journal of Career Development, 2024
The present study aims to translate the questionnaires of Parents' Attitudes toward Early Childhood Career Development (PAECCD) and Parents' Attitudes toward Vocational Education Implementation in Preschool Curriculum (PAVEIPC) into Chinese versions (PAECCD-C and PAVEIPC-C) and examines their reliability and validity through two studies. In Study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Attitudes, Preschool Children, Vocational Education
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Chen, Qiongqiong – International Education Studies, 2022
Predictive research on the enrollment proportion of general education and vocational education is crucial to optimizing the regional talent structure and industrial structure adjustment. The reasonable enrollment proportion of general education and vocational education also plays an important role in the adjustment of the overall employment…
Descriptors: Prediction, Enrollment, General Education, Vocational Education
Tom Benton – Research Matters, 2024
Educational assessment is used throughout the world for a range of different formative and summative purposes. Wherever an assessment is developed, whether by a teacher creating a quiz for their class, or by a testing company creating a high stakes assessment, it is necessary to decide how long the test should be. Specifically, how many questions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High Stakes Tests, Test Length, Test Construction
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Zhang, Di; Yang, Lan – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2023
As one of the 21st-century skills, self-directed learning (SDL) has received widespread attention and has become an essential research topic in education. In this study, we examined the psychometric properties of the SDL scale (SDLS) (Lounsbury et al., 2009) with a sample of 408 Chinese undergraduates. Previous research on Chinese students has…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Independent Study, Measures (Individuals), Foreign Countries
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Chen, Shan; Ding, Yuanzhao – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2023
In primary schools, the incorporation of STEAM education has become a widespread trend, as it is believed to have the potential to enhance the quality of education and foster students' competencies. This investigation aimed to explore the definition, measurement model, and scale of students' STEAM competence, emphasizing their hands-on experiences…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, STEM Education, Art Education, Elementary School Students
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Chen, Nanxi; Wu, Dandan; Hong, Huang-Yao; Chai, Ching Sing; Liang, Jyh-Chong – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2023
Engaging in design thinking activities has been increasingly viewed as important for the craft of teaching for early childhood practitioners. However, reliable and valid measurements for this are lacking. As such, this research aims to develop and validate a design thinking engagement scale (DTES) to assess teachers' engagement in design thinking.…
Descriptors: Design, Thinking Skills, Test Construction, Test Validity
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Liz Jackson; Michael W. Apple; Fei Yan; Jason Cong Lin; Chenxi Jiang; Tongzhou Li; Edward Vickers – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2024
In this collective essay the authors consider the nature and consequences of reading and researching across difference in an international and intergenerational team, whose core members are focused on understanding how curriculum operates and the nature of textbook representation of diversity in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Macau.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Reading Research, Educational Research
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Boqiong-Tian; Renhong-Shen; Rujun-Huang; Su Qiong-Xu – SAGE Open, 2024
The study aimed to explore the factor structure and psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the Family Resilience Assessment Scale for Children with Disabilities (FRAS-CWD). Due to the complexity of family resilience and the particularity of disabilities, there is a lack of reliable and valid tools to evaluate family resilience for…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Family Characteristics, Resilience (Psychology), Measures (Individuals)
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Xiaoyu Song; Minjie Ma; Xue Ma; Ke Zhao; Long Gao; Tingzhao Wang – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2024
The purpose is to test the applicability of the Positive and Negative Affect Scale (PANAS) to Chinese children with intellectual disabilities. The study was done by distributing the questionnaire to the parents through teachers online. Asked the parents to fill out the scale based on their observations of their children's daily life. The…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Foreign Countries, Intellectual Disability, Test Reliability
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Ming Chi; Changlong Zheng; Peng He – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2024
Chemical thinking is widely acknowledged as a core competency that students should develop in the context of school chemistry. This study aims to develop a measurement instrument to assess students' chemical thinking. We employed the Essential Questions-Perspectives (EQ-P) framework and Structure of Observed Learning Outcome (SOLO) classification…
Descriptors: High School Students, Chemistry, Thinking Skills, Test Construction
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Xinlei Li; Guoyuan Sang; Martin Valcke; Johan van Braak – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2024
In the context of digital technologies, computational thinking (CT) is considered a key competence of primary school teachers. However, assessment tools to measure in-service teachers' CT competence are rare. The current study explains the design, development, and validation of a scale to determine the in-service teachers' mastery level of their…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Competencies
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