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María Soledad Ramírez-Montoya; Claudia Marina Vicario-Solorzano; Laura Icela González-Pérez – Cogent Education, 2024
Sustainability actions in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) profoundly affect students, employees and their communities. These aim at social and economic benefits for local communities. Sustainability must be measured, and its goals must be achieved as part of the university's mission to impact the community significantly. This work provides…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Test Reliability, Measures (Individuals), Sustainable Development
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Thomas, Christopher L.; Cassady, Jerrell C.; Heath, Joshua A. – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2020
Test anxiety has been identified as a substantial barrier to student success at all educational levels. Given the ubiquitous presence of test anxiety, there have been many attempts to provide readily available measures of test anxiety to help identify learners at-risk for adverse academic outcomes. The purpose of the current study was to test the…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Test Anxiety, Structural Equation Models, At Risk Students
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Nogueira, Teresa; Magano, José; Fontão, Eunice; Sousa, Marina; Leite, Angela – Education Sciences, 2021
An essential aspect of higher education institutions' academic curricula for engineering courses is the students' industrial internship programs. In the literature, it is well accepted that such programs provide valuable learning outcomes and increase the graduates' employment prospects. Thus, it is paramount to evaluate the internship programs'…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, College Students, Student Satisfaction, Internship Programs
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Lou, Yu-Chiung; Lin, Hsiao-Fang; Lin, Chin-Wen – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2013
The aims of the study were (a) to develop a scale to measure university students' task value and (b) to use confirmatory factor analytic techniques to investigate the construct validity of the scale. The questionnaire items were developed based on theoretical considerations and the final version contained 38 items divided into 4 subscales.…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), College Students, Values, Academic Achievement
Mattern, Krista D.; Patterson, Brian F. – College Board, 2011
This report presents the validity of the SAT for predicting two second-year outcomes: (1) second-year cumulative GPA (2nd Yr Cum GPA), and (2) second-year grade point average (2nd Yr GPA). Similar to the results for first-year grade point average (1st Yr GPA), the SAT is strongly correlated with second year outcomes. For many significant…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Predictive Validity, Test Validity, Scores
Mattern, Krista D.; Patterson, Brian F. – College Board, 2006
This report presents the validity of the SAT for predicting two third-year college outcomes: (1) third-year cumulative GPA (3rd Yr Cum GPA), and (2) third-year grade point average (3rd Yr GPA). Similar to the results for first- and second-year outcomes (1st Yr GPA, 2nd Yr GPA, 2nd Yr Cum GPA), the SAT is strongly correlated with third year…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Predictive Validity, Test Validity, Scores