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A Brief Measure of Adolescent Perceptions of School Climate
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White, Nick; La Salle, Tamika; Ashby, Jeffrey S.; Meyers, Joel – School Psychology Quarterly, 2014
Student perceptions of school climate represent the ways students feel about the school environment. These include perceptions regarding safety, teaching and learning, and relationships within the school. It has been found that student perceptions of school climate are positively correlated with academic achievement (Brookover et al., 1978), and…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Student Attitudes, Factor Analysis, Safety
Construct Validation of the Physics Metacognition Inventory
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Taasoobshirazi, Gita; Farley, John – International Journal of Science Education, 2013
The 24-item Physics Metacognition Inventory was developed to measure physics students' metacognition for problem solving. Items were classified into eight subcomponents subsumed under two broader components: knowledge of cognition and regulation of cognition. The students' scores on the inventory were found to be reliable and related to students'…
Descriptors: Physics, Metacognition, Measures (Individuals), Problem Solving
Confirming a Middle Grades Leadership Model and Instrument
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Bickmore, Dana L. – RMLE Online: Research in Middle Level Education, 2011
The purpose of this replication study was to confirm a model of middle grades principal leadership, Developmentally Responsive Middle Level Leadership (DRMLL), proposed by Brown and Anfara (2002) through the validation of the "Middle Level Leadership Questionnaire" (MLLQ), which was developed by Anfara, Roney, Smarkola, DuCette, and…
Descriptors: Principals, Middle Schools, Leadership, Models
Structural Validity of the Professional Development Profile of the LoTi Digital-Age Survey
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Mehta, Vandhana; Hull, Darrell M. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2013
The present study was used to examine the structural construct validity of the Professional Development Profile of the LoTi Digital-Age Survey, a measure of teacher instructional practices with technology in the classroom. Teacher responses ("N" = 2,840) from across the United States were used to assess factor structure of the instrument…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Test Validity, Test Construction, Educational Technology
A Construct Validation Study of Phonological Awareness for Children Entering Prekindergarten
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Webb, Mi-Young Lee; Schwanenflugel, Paula J.; Kim, Seock-Ho – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2004
The purpose of this study was to determine the psychometric characteristics of a phonological awareness assessment for prekindergarten children using Messick's (1989) framework for unitary construct validity. Upon entry into prekindergarten, children were given rhyme discrimination, syllable segmentation, initial phoneme isolation, and phoneme…
Descriptors: Age, Phonemes, Phonology, Preschool Education
A Validation Study of a Georgia Teacher Certification Test Using Confirmatory Factor Analysis.
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Dabney, Marian E.; Stewart, Theadora – 1990
This study investigated the construct validity of the revised Special Education-Mental Handicaps Georgia Teacher Certification Test (MH-TCT) using hierarchical confirmatory factor analysis and LISREL VI. The primary objective was to determine whether first-order and second-order factors correspond to item/objective/test relationships defined by…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Software, Construct Validity, Content Validity