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Direct linkGraham, Steve; Harbaugh-Schattenkirk, Allen G.; Aitken, A. Angelique; Harris, Karen R.; Ng, Clarence; Wilson, John M.; Wdowin, Jeanne – Educational Psychology Review, 2023
This study examined the factorial and construct validity of a multi-dimensional measure of motives for writing with middle school students. The Writing Motivation Questionnaire included 28 items assessing seven motives for writing. Two motives assessed intrinsic reasons for writing (curiosity, involvement); three motives addressed extrinsic…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Questionnaires, Factor Structure, Test Validity
Tan Zhang – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2024
Derived from the Expectancy-Value Theory (EVT) model, cost has drawn scholarly interest for being predicative of avoidance motivation. The study is an effort to develop and validate an instrument to measure students' perceived costs in physical education. Through literature review and student interviews, a draft of 39 items under seven domains was…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Test Validity, Test Construction, Student Motivation
Download full textOzcan, Hasan; Koca, Esra – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2020
Purpose: This study aimed to develop an attitude scale to find out middle school students' (grades 5 through 8) attitudes towards science and to investigate the effects of grade level on students' attitudes towards science. Research Method: Cross-sectional survey method was used in this study. The attitude towards the science scale developed by…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Student Attitudes, Grade 5, Grade 6
Karaca, Busra; Aydin, Solmaz – Journal of Education in Science, Environment and Health, 2020
The aim of the present study was to develop the Science Amotivation Scale (SAS) in order to determine amotivation levels among demotivated students in science classes as well as examine the reasons causing amotivation. The participants were 533 students (6th, 7th, and 8th grade) studying across secondary schools located in Kars city centre in…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Test Construction, Test Validity, Test Reliability
Ribeiro, Olívia; Santos, António J.; Freitas, Miguel; Rosado, António; Rubin, Kenneth H. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2019
The present study assesses the factor structure, psychometric adequacy, and invariance across sex and age of the Relational Provisions Loneliness Questionnaire (RPLQ). Discriminant validity with an external criterion was also tested. In a sample of Portuguese adolescents, from 7th to 9th grade (N = 817), Confirmatory Factor Analyses (CFA) were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychological Patterns, Adolescents, Questionnaires
Lowe, Patricia A. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2014
A new multidimensional measure of test anxiety, the Test Anxiety Measure for Adolescents (TAMA), specifically designed for U.S. adolescents in Grades 6 to 12 was developed and its psychometric properties were examined. The TAMA consists of five scales (Cognitive Interference, Physiological Hyperarousal, Social Concerns, Task Irrelevant Behavior,…
Descriptors: Test Anxiety, Adolescents, Psychometrics, Test Construction
