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Wahyuningsih, Hepi; Novitasari, Resnia; Kusumaningrum, Fitri Ayu – Cogent Education, 2022
The present study aimed to culturally adapt the Stirling Children's Well-being Scale (SCWBS) for use in Indonesia with college student and to assess their psychometric properties in this population. This study investigated the dimensions, particularly the nature and number, of the Indonesian version of the SCWBS. Three hundred seventy-five…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Well Being, Psychometrics
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Sabaliauskas, Stanislav; Žilinskiene, Nele; Gerasimovicius, Ricardas; Gražulis, Donatas; Radžiukynas, Darius – Cogent Education, 2023
Research on interpersonal behaviour is becoming increasingly important in a variety of social contexts and cultures. In educational practice, its importance is based on interactions as the educational context, in which learning, value formation and meaningful activities take place. The aim of this was to adapt the Interpersonal Behaviours…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Interpersonal Relationship, Indo European Languages, Questionnaires
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Raeisi, Mina; Nadi, Mohammad Ali; Sharifi Ghoortani, Majid – Cogent Education, 2022
The purpose of this research was standardization through a test construction by addressing the assessment of validity and reliability of Reid's English language learning styles among high school students. This research was of quantitative approach. In this paper, 357 (189 females and 168 males) high school students in Isfahan Province on 2013-2014…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, English Language Learners, Second Language Learning
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Vatou, Anastasia; Gregoriadis, Athanasios; Tsigilis, Nikolaos; Grammatikopoulos, Vasilis – Cogent Education, 2022
Teachers' social self-efficacy is an important construct that has not been examined adequately in education yet. Developing a comprehensive understanding of teachers' social self-efficacy requires measuring these beliefs in the social domain of teachers' functioning. This study developed the Teachers' Social Self-Efficacy Scale (TSSES) scale and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Interpersonal Competence, Self Efficacy
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Rukchart, Navarat; Buakate, Phuwasin; Mohd Shamsudin, Faridahwati; Chutipattana, Nirachon – Cogent Education, 2022
Employers claim managerial skills are more important for community public health students than specialist subject knowledge. However, to date, there is no valid and reliable instrument to measure these skills. Furthermore, employers' viewpoints are often not considered in developing such a measure. This study aimed to develop an instrument by…
Descriptors: Public Health, Community Health Services, Health Personnel, Administration
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Vaculíková, Jitka; Kalenda, Jan; Kocvarová, Ilona – Cogent Education, 2023
Non-formal adult education (NFE) provides adults of all ages with the opportunity to acquire skills, knowledge, and expertise. However, there is currently a lack of validated instruments that measure the factors of NFE non-participation in European countries, particularly their barriers. One exception is the Non-participation in Non-formal…
Descriptors: Validity, Cross Cultural Studies, Informal Education, Adult Education
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Berhanu, Kelemu Zelalem – Cogent Education, 2023
These days, academic development is a crucial tool used to build new competencies that result in boosting employee performance. Thus, the research examines the association between staff development and employee performance as mediated by job satisfaction in Dembecha and Machikel districts, in Ethiopia. The researchers used a correlational research…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Gender Differences, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Effectiveness
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Vajak, Mahsa; Izadpanah, Siros; Naserian, Javad – Cogent Education, 2021
The globalized era together with demographic, geographical, and structural changes to English has reshaped the landscape of English language teaching (ELT) and emphasized the importance of preparing language learners for intercultural communication. It is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the relations of language and culture. The aim of…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Intercultural Communication, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Geiger, Tray; Amrein-Beardsley, Audrey – Cogent Education, 2019
In this overview piece, we document the six student perception surveys (SPSs) currently available for state, district, and school consumption and use, given SPSs are increasingly becoming one of the more popular "multiple measures" being used to evaluate teacher qualities. We present descriptive information about each of these SPSs,…
Descriptors: Student Surveys, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Educational Legislation
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Ariani, Dorothea Wahyu – Cogent Education, 2022
During this COVID-19 pandemic, the community, especially students, experienced anxiety due to the uncertainty that occurred. To cover it up, self-handicapping is the most common option. People in the eastern culture, such as Indonesia, prefer to achieve social achievement (SAch) goals than academic achievement (AAch) goals in motivation. This…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, COVID-19, Pandemics, Anxiety
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Shabani, Karim – Cogent Education, 2016
Dynamic assessment (DA) research, still in its infancy, takes its roots from Vygotsky's concept of zone of proximal development (ZPD) to account for learner's developmental process. Breaking away from a static, incomplete and, thus, unethical assessment of learner's abilities, DA came to the fore to better crystallize learner's levels of abilities…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Psychometrics, Second Language Learning, Ethics
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Kafi, Zeinab; Motallebzadeh, Khalil; Ashraf, Hamid – Cogent Education, 2018
"The field of ethics in teaching as a moral profession is a robust and compelling one. It captures the interest and imagination of scholars, researchers, and practitioners alike because it is so very important and integral to the world of education". For the same purpose, the major aim of the current paper was to come up with a code of…
Descriptors: Ethics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Ganji, Mansoor; Ketabi, Saeed; Shahnazari, Mohammadtaghi – Cogent Education, 2018
This article presents an overall exploratory comparison of the English teacher training courses (TTCs) held in Iranian private language institutes and Certificate in Teaching English to Adults (CELTA). Data were gathered through Iranian institutes' websites; interviews with Iranian English teachers, English teachers holding CELTA certificate, and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Comparative Analysis
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Soh, Kaycheng – Cogent Education, 2015
Teachers play a critical role in the development of student creativity. How well they play this role depends on whether they demonstrate creativity fostering behaviour when interacting with their students. There is, however, a dearth of suitable instruments for measuring this type of teacher behaviour, although there are many instruments for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Behavior, Creativity, Creativity Tests