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Intervention Construct Validity of Planning to Be Active among Adolescents Living in Appalachia
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Petosa, R. Lingyak; Smith, Laureen H. – American Journal of Health Education, 2022
Background: Intervention construct validity procedures test the efficacy of a program to impact on targeted theory constructs. Purpose: To examine the intervention construct validity of the Planning to be Active (PBA) and Mentored Planning to be Active (MPBA) programs on high school youth residing in Appalachia. Methods: Twenty high schools in…
Descriptors: Intervention, Construct Validity, Planning, Physical Activity Level
Applying the Mixed Methods Instrument Development and Construct Validation Process: the Transformative Experience Questionnaire
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Koskey, Kristin L. K.; Sondergeld, Toni A.; Stewart, Victoria C.; Pugh, Kevin J. – Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 2018
Onwuegbuzie and colleagues proposed the Instrument Development and Construct Validation (IDCV) process as a mixed methods framework for creating and validating measures. Examples applying IDCV are lacking. We provide an illustrative case integrating the Rasch model and cognitive interviews applied to the development of the Transformative…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Test Construction, Construct Validity, Test Validity
The Development of a Valid and Reliable Instrument for Measuring Instructional Coaching Skills
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Howley, Aimee Anton; Dudek, Marged Howley; Rittenberg, Rebekah; Larson, William – Professional Development in Education, 2014
This research used data from educators and teacher candidates in Ohio (a state in the Midwestern United States) to produce a valid and reliable instrument for measuring instructional coaching skills. The research involved three pilot tests with large samples of respondents. Initial items came from the extant literature on instructional coaching,…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Measures (Individuals), Construct Validity, Reliability
Grounding Lexical Diversity in Human Judgments
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Jarvis, Scott – Language Testing, 2017
The present study discusses the relevance of measures of lexical diversity (LD) to the assessment of learner corpora. It also argues that existing measures of LD, many of which have become specialized for use with language corpora, are fundamentally measures of lexical repetition, are based on an etic perspective of language, and lack construct…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Native Speakers
A Demonstration of a Systematic Item-Reduction Approach Using Structural Equation Modeling
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Larwin, Karen; Harvey, Milton – Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 2012
Establishing model parsimony is an important component of structural equation modeling (SEM). Unfortunately, little attention has been given to developing systematic procedures to accomplish this goal. To this end, the current study introduces an innovative application of the jackknife approach first presented in Rensvold and Cheung (1999). Unlike…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Sampling, Statistical Inference, Measures (Individuals)
Effective Board Leadership: Factors Associated with Student Achievement
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Johnson, Paul A. – Journal of School Leadership, 2013
The purpose of this study was to establish the content, construct, and predictive validity of the Effective Board Leadership Practices Survey (EBLPS). The EBLPS was designed to measure the leadership practices of boards of education that support student achievement. A literature review identified 12 board leadership practices supportive of student…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Academic Achievement, Leadership, Correlation