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Diers, Sarah E. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The Academic Behaviors and Skills of College Students (ABS-C) Scale is a measure that assesses in- and out-of-classroom behaviors and skills that may be affecting current academic standing. The measure inquires for self-perceptions of why college students may be having difficulty in courses. The ABS-C Scale demonstrates promising utility as a…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Evaluation, Student Behavior, Skills
Wilderman, Melanie – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This case study research explored options for improving trust between journalists and their communities within the boundaries of collegiate community journalism education. Data collected from students who completed a community journalism class, the instructor of that class, and journalism professionals who engaged with the class was analyzed using…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Student Attitudes, Trust (Psychology), Journalism
Fernandes, Amanda Careena – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Assessment is an integral part of learning as it is used to gather information about a test-taker. Those in the field of academia, such as educational policy makers, instructors, and administrators are able to use information gathered from tests to further instruction and learning decisions (Baker, 2006; Drianna, 2007; Kasper & Ross, 2013;…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Test Bias, Sex Fairness, English (Second Language)
Begay, Kristin – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Rating scales are often used as part of the evaluation process to diagnose autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Rating scales that are modeled after the experiences and understanding of the Caucasian American race may not reflect the unique experiences of individuals from other races or ethnicities. If parent ratings do not uniformly identify the ASD…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Rating Scales, Racial Differences
Swanson, Chad C. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Early literacy and reading skills are both important predictors of an individual's future success in school and employment settings (Moats, 1999). Moreover, poor reading performance in elementary school has been associated with future conduct problems and juvenile delinquency by age fifteen (Williams, 1994). Research supports the notion that…
Descriptors: Phonics, Curriculum Based Assessment, Reliability, Validity
Demiroz, Erdem – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This dissertation consisted of three different, but conceptually related manuscripts. The series of manuscripts examined psychosocial factors of learning including attitude towards mathematics, motivation to learn mathematics, and satisfaction from the mathematics instruction in both redesigned and traditionally- taught college algebra courses at…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Algebra, College Students, Student Attitudes
Bottenfield, Kip – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Adult students are an important subgroup in higher education. They are returning to school in numbers at higher percentage rates than their traditional counterparts. Between 2000 and 2010, the enrollment of students under age 25 increased by 34%; however, enrollment of students 25 and over rose 42% during the same period. From 2010 to 2020, the…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Learner Engagement, National Surveys, Construct Validity
LeBeau, Ling Gao – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study examines the internationalization process of an urban research university in the Midwest in order to understand how the process approach of internationalization (De Wit, 2002) frames the university's international planning and activities and makes an impact on their effectiveness. De Wit's (2002) internationalization circle was employed…
Descriptors: Case Studies, International Education, Urban Universities, Research Universities
Katherine Hunter Chenier – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Curriculum-based measurement (CBM) is an assessment technique that has become increasingly popular in schools, gaining importance with the recent national emphasis on school and teacher accountability for student achievement. CBM is used to monitor student performance to provide an indicator of which students are at-risk of not achieving grade…
Descriptors: Curriculum Based Assessment, Writing Evaluation, Scoring, Test Reliability
Sauro, Jeff – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Consumers spend an increasing amount of time and money online finding information, completing tasks, or making purchases. The quality of the website experience has become a key differentiator for organizations--affecting whether they purchase and their likelihood to return and recommend a website to friends. Two instruments were created to more…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Experience, Questionnaires, Usability
Greene, Travis – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to develop and validate an instrument through facet-factorial analysis to assess high school marching band performance. Forty-one items were chosen to define subscales for the Marching Band Performance Rating Scale - Music and 31 items for the Marching Band Performance Rating Scale - Visual. To examine the stability…
Descriptors: Music Activities, High School Students, Rating Scales, Validity
Carter, Kayla Supon – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this study is to further enhance the existing reliability and validity evidence related to the School Implementation Scale (SIS) and its use for evaluating the implementation of different integrated academic and behavior tiered Response-To-Intervention (RTI) models. Previous methodology conducted for validation of the instrument has…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Program Implementation, Rating Scales, Response to Intervention
Haubrick, Kevin D. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Deliberate practice serves as a potential framework to understand what activities, attributes, and characteristics make an individual an expert in their chosen field or profession. Historically, deliberate practice activities included those that were highly structured with purposeful goals, frequent repetition, and active feedback with immediate…
Descriptors: Dietetics, Test Construction, Allied Health Personnel, Semi Structured Interviews
Hylton, Peter D. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this research study was to create a new instrument designed to examine the commitment of an organization's leadership to following organizational processes, as measured by stakeholder perceptions. This instrument was designed to aid in closure of a gap in the field of leadership studies relative to the impact that a leader's…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Organizational Development, Measurement Equipment, Measurement Techniques
Dean, Lynn M. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
How parents interact with their children impacts many crucial facets of children's lives. Over the last 4 decades, researchers have identified four different parenting styles: authoritative, authoritarian, permissive, and disengaged. Hundreds of studies conducted all over the world, have identified correlations between parenting style and many…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Questionnaires, Reliability, Generalization
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