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Peer reviewedHopkins, Kenneth D. – American Educational Research Journal, 1984
In behavior research using cognitive and affective measures, there is often incongruity between the statistical analysis employed and the intended inference. This paper argues that incorporating items as levels of a random facet via generalizability theory allows the statistical examination of the inferential question in the desired universe of…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Analysis of Variance, Behavioral Science Research, Cognitive Measurement
Bufford, Rodger K.; Parker, Thomas G., Jr. – 1985
This study was designed to explore the concurrent validity of the Spiritual Well-being Scale (SWB). Ninety first-year student volunteers at an evangelical seminary served as subjects. As part of a larger study, the students completed the SWB and the Interpersonal Behavior Survey (IBS). The SWB Scale is a 20-item self-report scale. Ten items…
Descriptors: Adults, Affective Measures, Aggression, Assertiveness
Baird, Samera Major; Turner, Keith D. – Diagnostique, 1991
The Competence Enjoyment Scale (CES) was developed to measure parental feelings of competence and enjoyment as they interact with their infants. Mothers of 60 full-term healthy, preterm healthy, and preterm atypical infants were administered the CES to evaluate the instrument. Preliminary results support the reliability and validity of the scale.…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Birth Weight, Competence, Disabilities
Randhawa, Bikkar S.; Van Hesteren, Frank – 1983
The development of a modified semantic differential measure of school-related attitudes of grades 3-6 children is described and its validation involving 99 children is reported. Each of the four scales of this measure, Attitude Toward-School, -Language Arts, -Teachers, and -Arithmetic, was found to be unidimensional. Internal consistency estimates…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affective Measures, Correlation, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedCalhoun, Lawrence; And Others – Science Education, 1988
Presents a refined method for designing a valid and reliable Likert-type scale to test attitudes toward the generation of electricity from nuclear energy. Discusses various tests of validity that were used on the nuclear energy scale. Reports results of administration and concludes that the test is both reliable and valid. (CW)
Descriptors: Affective Measures, College Science, Energy Education, Evaluation Criteria
Download full textWalstad, William – 1983
The basic measurement topics of reliability, validity, and norms as they apply to the major norm-referenced cognitive and affective instruments in economics education are discussed to provide researchers with a framework for judging technical quality. Because the topic of measurement is neglected or given improper treatment in much research work…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Cognitive Tests, Economics Education, Educational Research
