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Khumalo, Jan Balotlhanyi; Van Der Westhuizen, Philip; Van Vuuren, Herman; van der Vyver, Cornelius P. – Africa Education Review, 2017
This article reports on the design of the Professional Development Needs Analysis Questionnaire for Deputy Principals (PDNAQ) to measure the problems they experienced and the skills they needed. In the literature, no validated questionnaire to measure the problems experienced and skills needed by deputy principals in South African schools was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Development, Needs Assessment, Questionnaires
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van der Vyver, C. P.; van der Westhuizen, Philip C.; Meyer, L. W. – South African Journal of Education, 2014
The purpose of this research was to develop the Caring School Leadership Questionnaire (CSLQ) as a valid and reliable instrument to measure the extent of care being given by school leaders (principals) to teachers. The research involved 1,041 teachers and 65 principals from 68 primary schools in the North-West Province of South Africa. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Caring, Leadership, Leadership Styles
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Retief, Liezel; Potgieter, Marietjie; Lutz, Marietjie – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2013
In this paper the use of the Rasch model is explored as a transparent, systematic and theoretically underpinned response to quality issues that are widely recognised as problematic in the refinement of Likert scale questionnaires. Key issues are the choice of length of scale, the pursuit of a favourable estimate of Cronbach's alpha at the possible…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Test Construction, Likert Scales, Questionnaires