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Zometa, Carlos S.; Dedrick, Robert; Knox, Michael D.; Westhoff, Wayne; Siman Siri, Rodrigo; Debaldo, Ann – AIDS Education and Prevention, 2007
An instrument developed in the United States by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to assess HIV/AIDS knowledge and four attitudinal dimensions (Peer Pressure, Abstinence, Drug Use, and Threat of HIV Infection) and an instrument developed by Basen-Engquist et al. (1999) to measure abstinence and condom use were translated,…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Disease Control, Speech Communication, Prevention
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Bulach, Clete; Boothe, Diane; Pickett, Winston – International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 2006
The authors describe various methods of measuring a principal's leadership behavior. They have developed a new survey instrument that can be used to analyze the leadership behavior/style of a principal. The instrument consists of 49 positive and negative behaviors that measure how a principal interacts with staff in the following five leadership…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Behavior, Leadership Styles, Human Relations
Heneman, Herbert G., III; Kimball, Steven; Milanowski, Anthony – Wisconsin Center for Education Research (NJ1), 2006
The present study contributes to knowledge of the construct validity of the short form of the Teacher Sense of Efficacy Scale (and by extension, given their similar content and psychometric properties, to the long form). The authors' research involves: (1) examining the psychometric properties of the TSES on a large sample of elementary, middle,…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Teaching Experience, Secondary School Teachers, Psychometrics
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Wood, Nathan B.; Lawrenz, Frances; Huffman, Douglas; Schultz, Matt – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2006
The "No Child Left Behind" (NCLB) Act has made schools accountable for assuring adequate yearly progress of students. Therefore, it has become critical to identify school-level variables that can be controlled to affect student achievement, especially given that, thus far, most school reform efforts have failed to significantly affect…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Environment, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
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Silverman, Michelle Kaye; Smith, Roger O. – Assistive Technology, 2006
Educators and therapists implement assistive technology to maximize educational outcomes of students with disabilities. However, few measure the outcomes of interventions because of a lack of valid measurement tools. This study investigated whether an assistive technology supplement for the School Function Assessment demonstrates an important…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Construct Validity, Program Effectiveness, Assistive Technology
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Hagan-Burke, Shanna; Burke, Mack D.; Crowder, Clay – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2006
The Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) are a series of fluency-based measures designed to assess early literacy skills. These fluency-based measures function as predictors of future reading performance and target critical component skills required to learn to read. This study was conducted to establish the convergent…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Sight Vocabulary, Reading Ability, Emergent Literacy
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Pavuluri, Mani N.; Henry, David B.; Devineni, Bhargavi; Carbray, Julie A.; Birmaher, Boris – Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2006
Objective: To develop a reliable and valid parent-report screening instrument for mania, based on DSM-IV symptoms. Method: A 21-item Child Mania Rating Scale-Parent version (CMRS-P) was completed by parents of 150 children (42.3% female) ages 10.3 plus or minus 2.9 years (healthy controls = 50; bipolar disorder = 50;…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Check Lists, Schizophrenia, Rating Scales
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Wiliam, Dylan – Review of Research in Education, 2010
The idea that validity should be considered a property of inferences, rather than of assessments, has developed slowly over the past century. In early writings about the validity of educational assessments, validity was defined as a property of an assessment. The most common definition was that an assessment was valid to the extent that it…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Validity, Inferences, Construct Validity
Powers, Donald E.; Wilson, Susan T. – 1993
It has been reasonably well established that test takers can sometimes answer correctly some reading comprehension passages without reading the passages on which the questions are based. This issue was studied with the new Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) in a study designed to determine the strategies by which examinees are able to achieve…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Construct Validity, High School Students, High Schools
Boldt, Robert F.; Oltman, Philip K. – 1993
Administration of the Test of Spoken English (TSE) yields tapes of oral performance on items within six sections of the test. Trained scorers subsequently rate responses using four proficiency scales: pronunciation, grammar, fluency, and overall comprehensibility. This project examined the consistency of statistical relations among TSE scores with…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Construct Validity, Correlation, English (Second Language)
Shulman, Gary M.; And Others – 1995
A study refined a valid and reliable measure to measure learner empowerment and determined construct validity by correlating learner empowerment with the related variables affinity-seeking (an interpersonal communication construct), motivation to study, and learning. Subjects, 340 undergraduate students enrolled in communication classes at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Communication Research, Construct Validity, Factor Analysis
Marsh, Herbert W. – 1992
The present investigation extends the factor analytic approach pioneered by Fleishman (1964), incorporating subsequent developments in the application of confirmatory factor analysis and the physical fitness literature (e.g., an emphasis on maximum oxygen intake). More specifically, the ability of an a priori factor structure of physical fitness…
Descriptors: Aerobics, Age, Child Health, Construct Validity
Logerquist-Hansen, Sally; Barona, Andres – 1994
This study evaluated the construct validity of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, Third Edition (WISC-III) with children (ages 8 to 13) having learning disabilities who were either Hispanic (N=120) or Non-Hispanic white (N=120). Factor analyses found that the WISC III has a three factor structure consisting of verbal comprehension,…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Elementary Education, Factor Analysis, Factor Structure
Witta, E. Lea; Witta, George T. – 1997
Factor analysis of the instrument used to evaluate student perceptions of an educational interactive video program has determined that seven constructs were being measured. All of these constructs, however, were not consistently measuring the same things. In fact, the variables on which the factors loaded changed for three of the factors from…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Distance Education, Evaluation Methods, Factor Analysis
Kupermintz, Haggai; Le, Vi-Nhuan; Snow, Richard E. – 1999
This study investigated the validity of measures derived from a large-scale multiple-choice achievement test in mathematics, using evidence from introspective think-aloud protocols of students as they attempted test items. A small-scale study of 21 local high-school students was conducted to identify and describe cognitive processes underlying…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Construct Validity, High School Students, High Schools
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