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Social Support Questionnaire for Children: Development and Initial Validation
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Gordon-Hollingsworth, Arlene T.; Thompson, Julia E.; Geary, Meghan A.; Schexnaildre, Mark A.; Lai, Betty S.; Kelley, Mary Lou – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2016
The Social Support Questionnaire for Children (SSQC) is a 50-item scale that assesses children's social support from parents, relatives, nonrelative adults, siblings, and peers. The SSQC demonstrates good psychometric properties (e.g., internal consistency, factorial validity). Furthermore, the SSQC appears to be an ethnically sensitive measure of…
Descriptors: Social Support Groups, Questionnaires, Children, Test Construction
The Revised School Culture Elements Questionnaire: Gender and Grade Level Invariant?
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DeVaney, Thomas A.; Adams, Nan B.; Hill-Winstead, Flo; Trahan, Mitzi P. – Research in the Schools, 2012
The purpose of this research was to examine the psychometric properties of the RSCEQ with respect to invariance across gender and grade level, using a sample of 901 teachers from 44 schools in southeast Louisiana. Reliability estimates were consistent with previous research and ranged from 0.81 to 0.90 on the actual and 0.83 to 0.92 on the…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, School Culture, Psychometrics, Test Reliability
Teacher Candidates' Perceptions of Scientists: Images and Attributes
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McCarthy, Deborah – Educational Review, 2015
The masculine image of scientists as elderly men wearing white coats and glasses, working alone in the laboratory has been documented since the 1950s. Because it is important that teacher candidates have a scientifically literate image of scientists due to the impact they have on their future students, this investigation is salient. This study…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Scientists, Scientific Attitudes
The Influence of Family and Significant Others on Women's Decisions to Obtain an Abortion: A Study of a Northwest Louisiana Abortion Clinic
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Solomon, Bertina Loutrice – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study researched whether family members and significant others influence a woman's decision to obtain an abortion. Influence is defined by Merriam-Webster (2011) as the power or capacity of causing an effect in indirect or intangible ways; power exerted over the minds or behaviors of others. The theoretical framework that will be used in…
Descriptors: Females, Pregnancy, Decision Making, Interpersonal Relationship
Teachers' Professional Orientation: An Empirical Examination of the Construct Validity Using the Results of Large-Scale Factor Analyses.
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Chauvin, Sheila W.; Ellett, Chad D. – 1993
The construct validity of the Attitudes of Professional Autonomy (APA) as a proxy measure of professional orientation was studied. The sample consisted of all teachers in 94 schools in 6 districts in Louisiana, closely representing the statewide distribution of all schools by level and socioeconomic status. Usable data were received from 1,921…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Factor Analysis
Principal Change Facilitator Style, Bureaucratic and Professional Orientations, and Teacher Receptivity to Change.
Chauvin, Sheila W.; Ellett, Chad D. – 1993
Conceptions of principal change facilitator style (PCFS) and bureaucratic and professional role orientations (BPROs) are used to explore the construct of teacher receptivity to change (TRC) and the relationships among teacher perceptions of PCFS and their perceptions of receptivity to change. Part I of the study analyzed and refined the…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Attitude Measures, Change Agents, Elementary School Teachers