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Ersöz, Gözde; Müftüler, Mine; Lapa, Tennur Yerlisu; Tümer, Adile – Cogent Education, 2017
The aim of this study was to examine validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the Goal Orientation in Exercise Measure (GOEM). There were 408 participants who were regularly exercising and their age ranged from 17 to 61 years old. The psychometric characteristics of the scale were investigated using exploratory factor analysis (EFA),…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Test Reliability, Test Validity, Psychometrics
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Quaigrain, Kennedy; Arhin, Ato Kwamina – Cogent Education, 2017
Item analysis is essential in improving items which will be used again in later tests; it can also be used to eliminate misleading items in a test. The study focused on item and test quality and explored the relationship between difficulty index (p-value) and discrimination index (DI) with distractor efficiency (DE). The study was conducted among…
Descriptors: Item Analysis, Teacher Developed Materials, Test Reliability, Educational Assessment
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Krell, Moritz – Cogent Education, 2017
This study evaluates a 12-item instrument for subjective measurement of mental load (ML) and mental effort (ME) by analysing different sources of validity evidence. The findings of an expert judgement (N = 8) provide "evidence based on test content" that the formulation of the items corresponds to the meaning of ML and ME. An empirical…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Test Validity, Secondary School Students, Multiple Choice Tests
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Aliakbari, Mohammad; Malmir, Bahareh – Cogent Education, 2017
Teacher learning is of significant importance in mainstream education and a number of attempts have been made to measure the quality of teacher learning across different contexts. The available instruments, however, have been originally developed to assess teachers' perceptions of a single contributive element of teacher learning; therefore,…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, English Teachers, English Teacher Education, Rating Scales
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König, Johannes – Cogent Education, 2015
The study aims at developing and exploring a novel video-based assessment that captures classroom management expertise (CME) of teachers and for which statistical results are provided. CME measurement is conceptualized by using four video clips that refer to typical classroom management situations in which teachers are heavily challenged…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Expertise, Video Technology, Teacher Evaluation