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Mucherah, Winnie; Finch, Holmes – International Journal of Testing, 2010
This study investigated the structural equivalence of the Self Description Questionnaire (SDQ) in relation to Kenyan high school students. A total of 1,990 students from two same-sex boarding schools participated. Confirmatory factor analysis revealed the overall model fit the data well. However, an examination of the individual factors revealed…
Descriptors: African Culture, Boarding Schools, Construct Validity, Questionnaires
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Nishiyama, Kunio – Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 1998
Argues for a fundamental structural similarity between serial verb constructions, widely known from Kwa languages, and v-v compounds in Japanese. A major theoretical implication of the analysis is that it supports an analysis of clausal structure where the external argument is not included in the immediate projection of a verb but is introduced by…
Descriptors: African Languages, Contrastive Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Grammar