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Aguirre-Munoz, Zenaida; Boscardin, Christy Kim; Jones, Barbara; Park, Jae-Eun; Chinen, Marjorie; Shin, Hye Sook; Lee, Janet; Amabisca, Anastasia Aimee; Benner, Aprile – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2006
To further the understanding of ELL (under) achievement and broaden the current scope of OTL models, the primary focus of this study was to investigate process and content opportunities that are particularly relevant to improving ELL achievement with particular attention to the relationship between opportunities to acquire academic language and…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Second Language Learning, Linguistic Theory, Educational Change
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Zolondek, Stacey; Lilienfeld, Scott O.; Patrick, Christopher J.; Fowler, Katherine A. – Assessment, 2006
The authors examined the construct and incremental validity of the Interpersonal Measure of Psychopathy (IM-P), a relatively new instrument designed to detect interpersonal behaviors associated with psychopathy. Observers of videotaped Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) interviews rated male prisoners (N = 93) on the IM-P. The IM-P correlated…
Descriptors: Mental Disorders, Construct Validity, Interviews, Males
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Ruch, Libby O.; Wang, Chang-Hwai – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2006
To examine the utility of a self-report scale of sexual assault trauma, 223 female victims were interviewed with the 43-item Sexual Assault Symptom Scale II (SASS II) at 1, 3, 7, 11, and 15 months postassault. Factor analyses using principal-components extraction with an oblimin rotation yielded 7 common factors with 31 items. The internal…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Measures (Individuals), Females, Interviews
Roberts, William; And Others – 1995
This paper describes the development and validation of measures of students' and teachers' perceptions of the extent to which their school is a community. Community, in this instance, focuses on the quality of social relationships in the school. The development of measures of school community is reported, and the construct validity of these…
Descriptors: Community, Construct Validity, Educational Assessment, Elementary Education
Ostrander, Diane L.; Henry, Carolyn S. – 1993
A modification of the Family Adaptation Scale of Antonovsky and Sourani (1988), was developed for assessing the adaptation of ministers' families. A sample of 317 individuals (ministers, spouses, and children aged 8 to 18) from 135 protestant ministers' families was used to test the scale. The self-report questionnaire was tested for internal…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Children, Clergy, Concurrent Validity
Jesus, Saul Neves de – 1993
Expectancy-valence models are used most in the field of motivational psychology. However, teachers' motivation had not been studied by these models and only limited research exists assessing the expectancy and the valence constructs. This study's aim was to examine preservice teachers' and practicing teachers' motivation by the expectancy-valence…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Educational Objectives, Expectation, Foreign Countries
Gilbert, Helga Burke – 1997
Numerous career interest measures are available. Information on one such career inventory, the Career Thoughts Inventory (CTI) is presented here. The instrument is a self-administered assessment and intervention tool designed to provide a measure of dysfunctional thinking in career problem solving and decision making. The inventory is intended for…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Counseling, Career Development, Career Planning
Tanner, David E. – 1997
During a period when the reform-minded are very critical of the degree to which testing is actually related to the conditions for which data are employed, authentic assessment offers the opportunity to evaluate learning in settings closely related to the real world. It also allows the evaluator to tailor assessment conditions for individual…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Content Validity, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria
Latkovich, Sharon A. – 1996
The Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) is used to assess the behavioral problems and social competencies of children. Its broad usage in both practitioner and research contexts has led to misapplications as compared to the CBCL's original intended purpose. In addition, the composition of the normative sample presents particular difficulties for…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Problems, Blacks, Children
MacPhee, David; Fritz, Janet J.; Miller-Heyl, Jan; Hite, Judy – 1998
Although mastery motivation appears to predict school success, individual assessment of mastery motivation is too time consuming and limits the application of this research. This study examined the psychometric properties of the Dimensions of Mastery Questionnaire (DMQ). The study focused on the validity of the measure for Head Start parents,…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Construct Validity, Interpersonal Competence, Measurement Techniques
Schroeder, David H. – 1991
This study examined the construct validity of the Rod and Frame Test (RFT). Subjects were 554 clients (269 males and 285 females) (aged 14 to 65 years) of the Johnson O'Connor Research Foundation (JOCRF), a vocational guidance service. In a battery of diverse ability and style tests (19 tests of the JOCRF battery and 4 tests of cognitive style),…
Descriptors: Adults, Aptitude Tests, Career Counseling, Cognitive Style
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Powis, David; Bore, Miles; Munro, Donald; Lumsden, Mary Ann – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2005
A review of the medical student selection literature and our own past research (Lowe, Kerridge, Bore, Munro and Powis (2001) has indicated that competent and ethical practice of medicine requires doctors to possess a range of personal qualities in addition to high-level academic ability. A three-part test battery called the Personal Qualities…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Student Characteristics, Medical Schools, Foreign Countries
Schmitt, Dorren Rafael – 1989
This study, conducted at six southern universities, analyzed the validity and reliability of a researcher developed instrument designed to evaluate educational software in secondary mathematics. The instrument called the Instrument for Software Evaluation for Educators uses measurement scales, presents a summary section of the evaluation, and…
Descriptors: College Students, Computer Software, Construct Validity, Content Validity
Woods, Paula A.; Sedlacek, William E. – 1988
To supplement previous reliability and validity studies concerning the Noncognitive Questionnaire (NCQ), new NCQ items were written and assessed in relation to the original eight NCQ scales. The NCQ measures eight non-traditional or non-cognitive variables that relate to minority student retention--positive self-concept, realistic self-appraisal,…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Construct Validity, Coping, Factor Analysis
Taylor, Ronald L.; And Others – Diagnostique, 1985
Construct validity of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised using 189 Black, 184 Hispanic, and 187 White 6- to 11-year-olds was investigated. A two-factor solution yielded similar loadings corresponding to verbal comprehension and perceptual organization for all three groups. Three-factor solutions yielded similar loadings for…
Descriptors: Blacks, Children, Construct Validity, Elementary Education
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