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Lu, Ming-Hui; Pang, Fei-Fan; Chen, Xiao-Meng; Zou, Yu-Qing; Chen, Jia-Wei; Liang, Di-Chao – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2021
Teacher self-efficacy plays an important role in special education; yet, the literature on the measurement of teacher self-efficacy in this field is limited. This study investigated the psychometric properties of the Teachers' Sense of Efficacy Scale with a sample of Chinese special education teachers (N = 401, 24.19% male). Confirmatory factor…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Factor Structure, Self Efficacy, Teacher Effectiveness
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Moreira, Paulo; Cunha, Diana; Inman, Richard A. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2020
Student engagement is typically regarded as being a multidimensional construct, but there remains no clear consensus about its precise conceptualization. Several current measures of student engagement are limited by their omission of relevant dimensions and/or poor correspondence between dimension labels and item content. To address these…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Measures (Individuals), Test Validity, Psychometrics
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Martin, Andrew J.; Martin, Tamica G.; Evans, Paul – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2018
This study explored motivation and engagement among 585 Jamaican middle and high school students. Motivation and engagement were assessed via students' responses to the Motivation and Engagement Scale. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) found satisfactory fit, and by most measures, multigroup CFA demonstrated comparable factor structure for males…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Middle School Students, High School Students, Foreign Countries
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Datu, Jesus Alfonso D.; Yang, Weipeng – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2018
The current study examined the psychometric validity and gender invariance of the Academic Buoyancy Scale in the Philippines through a construct validation approach. In terms of within-network construct validity, our results demonstrated that the unidimensional model of academic buoyancy significantly fit the current sample and was invariant…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Gender Differences, Academic Achievement, Goodness of Fit
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Yusof, Noradlin; Ang, Rebecca P.; Oei, Tian Po S. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2017
This study examined the psychometric properties of the school engagement measure (SEM) in Singapore. The sample consisted of 1,027 students from a multi-ethnic Singapore adolescent community. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) confirmed that the two-factor solution, namely, (a) Emotional and (b) Cognitive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychometrics, Learner Engagement, Measures (Individuals)
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Xu, Jianzhong; Fan, Xitao; Du, Jianxia – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2016
The goal of the current investigation was to evaluate psychometric properties of the Homework Distraction Scale (HDS) using 796 middle school students. Results from confirmatory factor analyses (CFAs) supported the presence of two distinct yet related subscales for the HDS: Conventional Distraction and Tech-Related Distraction. Results of…
Descriptors: Homework, Middle School Students, Factor Structure, Psychometrics
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McDermott, Elana R.; Donlan, Alice E.; Zaff, Jonathan F.; Prescott, Jennifer E. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2016
Youth who have disengaged from and subsequently returned to school are qualitatively different from students with continual educational enrollment. In this study, we examined the validity for two measures: the Adult Hope Scale (AHS) and Persistence in Goal Striving (PGS) Scale, among two samples of reengaged students (i.e., students who have…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Measures (Individuals), Reentry Students, Continuation Students
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Lovelace, Matthew D.; Reschly, Amy L.; Appleton, James J.; Lutz, Mary E. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2014
The Student Engagement Instrument (SEI) is a self-report measure of cognitive and affective engagement with school. Prior SEI validation studies have focused primarily on construct validity through analyses of internal consistency, factor analysis, and measurement invariance. Results are presented here from a two-pronged study of the criterion…
Descriptors: Predictive Validity, Learner Engagement, Psychometrics, Measures (Individuals)
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Zullig, Keith J.; Koopman, Tommy M.; Patton, Jon M.; Ubbes, Valerie A. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2010
This study's purpose is to examine the existing school climate literature in an attempt to constitute its definition from a historical context and to create a valid and reliable student-reported school climate instrument. Five historically common school climate domains and five measurement tools were identified, combined, and previewed by the…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Time Perspective, History, Literature Reviews