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Powers, Donald E.; Pitcher, Barbara – Journal of Personnel Evaluation in Education, 1992
The degree to which between-group differences in performance on individual questions on the NTE Professional Knowledge Test conform to expectations was studied for 19,307 examinees who had taken the NTE Core Battery. Some items are quite consistent with the intended test interpretation test, whereas others are less consistent. (SLD)
Descriptors: College Students, Construct Validity, Education Majors, Elementary School Teachers
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Stokes, Julie E.; And Others – Journal of Black Psychology, 1994
This paper investigates the psychometric properties of the African Self-Consciousness (ASC) Scale in a noncollege heterogeneous population of 147 African Americans to determine the reliability and validity of the ASC Scale. Based on analysis of the scale's reliability, factor structure, and construct validity, the study shows the ASC Scale to be a…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Behavioral Science Research, Blacks, Construct Validity
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Germeijs, Veerle; Verschueren, Karine – Journal of Career Assessment, 2006
During adolescence, one important career-related decision is the choice of a study in higher education. In this article, a new set of measures for different tasks (i.e., orientation, exploration, commitment) that can be distinguished during this career decision-making process was constructed: the Study Choice Task Inventory (SCTI). A sample of 946…
Descriptors: High School Students, Career Choice, Decision Making, Adolescents
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Henry, David B. – Assessment, 2006
This study evaluates the validity of two aggression scales for predicting observations of malicious or disruptive behavior at school. Subgroups of a sample of 1,560 children (age 8.6 plus or minus 1.5 years) were assessed using (a) peer nominations of aggression, (b) teacher reports on the Teacher Report Form (TRF) of the Child Behavior Checklist…
Descriptors: Measurement Techniques, Observation, Aggression, Children
Britton, Paula J.; And Others – 1994
This study explores the construct validity of the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL), which was created as a standardized tool for recording the behaviors of children aged 4 through 16 as reported by their parents or caretakers. Since its inception in 1983, the CBCL has been applied and tested on numerous clinical samples, yielding an impressive body…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavior Disorders, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Rating Scales
Zuskin, Robin D. – 1993
Second language tests claiming to assess communicative competence are widespread, despite the vague nature of the construct. Sociolinguistic or intercultural competence is gradually gaining attention in the classroom, but testing has not kept pace, partly because of difficulty in defining the related skills. An opinion is that speech act theory…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Construct Validity, Intercultural Communication, Language Proficiency
Cobbs, Henry L., Jr.; Wilmoth, James Noel – 1990
The Computing Potential in Atlanta Public School Education (CPAPSE) was developed to determine teacher attitudes about computing potential as an instructional tool and to compare current practice with potential computing applications to determine the degree to which computer resources are being used in grades 2, 3, and 4. During the last week of…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Construct Validity, Educational Technology, Elementary Education
Wasserman, John D.; And Others – 1993
The original Bayley Scales of Infant Development (BSID) have been among the most popular measures of performance and aptitude of infants. In this study, the construct validity of scores on the Behavior Rating Scale of the revised Bayley Scales, the BSID-II, was investigated using national standardization and clinical samples of children ranging in…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Aptitude Tests, Behavior Rating Scales, Child Development
Thompson, Bruce; And Others – 1994
The original "Bayley Scales of Infant Development" (BSID) (Bayley 1969) have been among the most popular measures of performance and aptitude of infants. In the present study the reliability and construct validity of mental and motor scores on the revised Bayley Scales of Infant Development-II (BSID-II) were investigated. A national…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Aptitude Tests, Behavior Patterns, Child Development
Johnson, William L.; And Others – 1991
A popular instrument purported to measure psychological dimensions of school climate--the Charles F. Kettering Ltd. School Climate Profile (CFK)--was analyzed psychometrically. Factor analysis was used to examine the construct validity of the CFK scale, Part A, General Climate Factors, which contains 8 subscales each with 5 items (a total of 40…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Construct Validity, Educational Environment, Factor Analysis
Sherman, Lawrence W.; And Others – 1990
School achievement attributions for success and failure were examined for American and Polish preadolescents between the ages of 12 and 13 years. The American sample included 115 preadolescents (53 males and 62 females), and the Polish sample included 64 children (34 males and 30 females). The American subjects came from a suburban racially…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attribution Theory, Comparative Testing, Construct Validity
Dabney, Marian E.; Stewart, Theadora – 1990
This study investigated the construct validity of the revised Special Education-Mental Handicaps Georgia Teacher Certification Test (MH-TCT) using hierarchical confirmatory factor analysis and LISREL VI. The primary objective was to determine whether first-order and second-order factors correspond to item/objective/test relationships defined by…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Software, Construct Validity, Content Validity
Lathrop, Richard G. – 1987
The Multidimensional Test of Self-Concept (MTS) is based on the assumption that an individual's perception of his/her well-being is related to the difference between the current state of that individual and the desired state. This difference between the two states may be directly measured, and a single self-concept score generated. The MTS…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Analysis of Variance, Construct Validity
Schunk, Dale H. – 1987
This article discusses the assessment of self-regulated learning processes as students acquire cognitive skills in specific academic domains. Domain-specific assessment is useful for understanding student learning and for planning instructional activities that help to promote it. Although much psychological research has used general measures of…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Construct Validity
Oner, Necla – 1986
The Turkish edition of the Test Anxiety Inventory (TAI-T) was accomplished in three stages, each stage constituting an independent study with new samples. In the first study, using bilingual Turkish high school and college students, the transliteral equivalence between the Turkish and English TAI items were achieved. The second study, using a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Students, Concurrent Validity, Construct Validity
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