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M. Lotan; R. Moe-Nilssen; A. E. Ljunggren; L. I. Strand – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2009
Evaluating pain in adults with intellectual and developmental disability (IDD) is a challenge. The Non-Communicating Adults Pain Checklist (NCAPC) was recently developed from the Non-Communicating Children's Pain Checklist (NCCPC) and examined in a group of adults with IDD (N = 228) and found to hold satisfactory construct validity, internal…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Allied Health Personnel, Immunization Programs, Caregivers
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Tibenderana, Prisca; Ogao, Patrick; Ikoja-Odongo, J.; Wokadala, James – International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 2010
This study concerns the adoption of Information Communication Technology (ICT) services in libraries. The study collected 445 usable data from university library end-users using a cross-sectional survey instrument. It develops, applies and tests a research model of acceptance and use of such services based on an existing UTAUT model by Venkatesh,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Library Services, Electronic Libraries, Information Technology
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Afari-Kumah, Eben; Achampong, Akwasi Kyere – International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 2010
This study aims to examine the computer usage intentions of Ghanaian Tertiary Students. The Technology Acceptance Model was adopted as the theoretical framework to ascertain whether it could help explain behavioral intentions of individuals to accept and use technology. Factor analysis was used to assess the construct validity of the initial…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attitudes, Computer Attitudes
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Cicero, David C.; Kerns, John G.; McCarthy, Denis M. – Psychological Assessment, 2010
Aberrant salience is the unusual or incorrect assignment of salience, significance, or importance to otherwise innocuous stimuli and has been hypothesized to be important for psychosis and psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia. Despite the importance of this concept in psychosis research, no questionnaire measures are available to assess…
Descriptors: Schizophrenia, Validity, Factor Structure, Factor Analysis
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Newton, Paul E. – Research Papers in Education, 2010
Robert Coe has claimed that three broad conceptions of comparability can be identified from the literature: performance, statistical and conventional. Each of these he rejected, in favour of a single, integrated conception which relies upon the notion of a "linking construct" and which he termed "construct comparability".…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Measurement Techniques, Foreign Countries, Tests
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Walker, Cindy M.; Zhang, Bo; Surber, John – Applied Measurement in Education, 2008
Many teachers and curriculum specialists claim that the reading demand of many mathematics items is so great that students do not perform well on mathematics tests, even though they have a good understanding of mathematics. The purpose of this research was to test this claim empirically. This analysis was accomplished by considering examinees that…
Descriptors: Test Items, Construct Validity, Test Validity, Mathematics Tests
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Wong, Emily M. L.; Li, S. C. – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2008
Despite frequent attempts to address educational changes and the roles of information and communication technology (ICT) in effecting changes in student learning, few have conceptually examined ICT implementation within a wider context of managing change in schools. Methodologically, it has been argued that ignoring the multilevel nature of the…
Descriptors: Technology Integration, Collegiality, Educational Change, Regression (Statistics)
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Herrington, Rachael L.; Mitchell, Alexandra E.; Castellani, Angela M.; Joseph, Jana I.; Snyder, Douglas K.; Gleaves, David H. – Psychological Assessment, 2008
Previous research has identified 2 broad components of distress in intimate relationships: overt conflict, or "disharmony", and emotional distance, or "disaffection". Using confirmatory factor analysis, the authors derived 2 broadband scales of disharmony and disaffection from the Marital Satisfaction Inventory-Revised (D. K. Snyder, 1997),…
Descriptors: Marital Satisfaction, Construct Validity, Stress Variables, Intimacy
Spitzer, Dean R. – Educational Technology, 2008
Learning has changed dramatically, but learning measurement has not. Since we can only effectively manage what we can measure, how we measure learning must change. This article posits that fifty years after Kirkpatrick's work, it is time for new thinking about the measurement of learning to emerge. This article challenges learning and human…
Descriptors: Performance Technology, Measures (Individuals), Productivity, Systems Analysis
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Alderson, R. Matt; Rapport, Mark D.; Sarver, Dustin E.; Kofler, Michael J. – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2008
The current study investigates two recently identified threats to the construct validity of behavioral inhibition as a core deficit of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) based on the stop-signal task: calculation of mean reaction time from go-trials presented adjacent to intermittent stop-trials, and non-reporting of the stop-signal…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Reaction Time, Construct Validity, Validity
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Nunnery, John A.; Ross, Steven M.; Bol, Linda – Journal of Educational Research & Policy Studies, 2008
This study reports the results of a validation study of the Comprehensive School Restructuring Teacher Questionnaire (CSRTQ) and the School Observation Measure (SOM), which are intended for use in evaluating comprehensive school reform efforts. The CSRTQ, which putatively measures five factors related to school restructuring (internal focus,…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Observation, Construct Validity, Factor Structure
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Hunt, Earl; Wittmann, Werner – Intelligence, 2008
What is the relation between the cognitive competence of a national population that nation's economic prosperity? Lynn and Vanhanen [Lynn, R. & Vanhanen, T. (2002). "IQ and the wealth of nations." Westport, CT: Praeger.] presented data pointing to an exceptionally strong relationship between IQ scores and Gross Domestic Product per…
Descriptors: Economic Impact, Correlation, Intelligence, Cognitive Ability
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Briggs, Derek C. – Educational Researcher, 2008
When causal inferences are to be synthesized across multiple studies, efforts to establish the magnitude of a causal effect should be balanced by an effort to evaluate the generalizability of the effect. The evaluation of generalizability depends on two factors that are given little attention in current syntheses: construct validity and external…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Construct Validity, Inferences, Educational Policy
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Blum, Craig; Cheney, Douglas – Teacher Education and Special Education, 2009
In this study, the authors evaluated the empirical properties of the 33-item Teacher Knowledge and Skills Survey (TKSS) 2.0 for positive behavioral support (PBS) in schools. Through an examination of internal consistency and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) of the theorized construct, the construct validity of the survey was evaluated. Results…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Characteristics, Construct Validity, Reliability
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Dogan, Tayfun; Cetin, Bayram – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2009
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the reliability and validity of the Turkish version of the Tromso Social Intelligence Scale (TSIS) developed by Silvera, Martinussen, and Dahl (2001). 719 students from Sakarya University participated in the study. Construct validity and criterion related validity and reliability were assessed.…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Construct Validity, Factor Structure, Measures (Individuals)
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