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Zeng, Yating; Chi, Shaohui; Wang, Zuhao; Zhuang, Xiaosong – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2023
Online metacognitive skills are the real-time awareness of cognition, which can effectively promote science learning and improve performance in solving scientific problems. Therefore, it is important to enhance and diagnose students' online metacognitive skills in science education. This study aimed to evaluate ninth-grade students' online…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Grade 9, Metacognition
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Tsai, Meng-Jung; Liang, Jyh-Chong; Lee, Silvia Wen-Yu; Hsu, Chung-Yuan – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2022
A prior study developed the Computational Thinking Scale (CTS) for assessing individuals' computational thinking dispositions in five dimensions: decomposition, abstraction, algorithmic thinking, evaluation, and generalization. This study proposed the Developmental Model of Computational Thinking through validating the structural relationships…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Problem Solving, Computation, Models
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Sharma, Anu; Pape, Stephen J.; Templin, Jonathan – Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2019
The Modeling Self-Efficacy Scale was developed to measure students' confidence in understanding and solving modeling tasks. The scale was administered to 225 eighth- and ninth-grade students. Participants read modeling tasks adapted from Programme for International Student Assessment's 2003 problem-solving assessment and rated their confidence on…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Modeling (Psychology), Self Efficacy, Junior High School Students
Monopoli, W. John; Evans, Steven W.; Benson, Kari; Allan, Nicholas P.; Owens, Julie Sarno; DuPaul, George J.; Bunford, Nóra – Grantee Submission, 2020
Objectives: Despite advances in understanding associations among attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), emotion dysregulation (ED), and related outcomes, there is incongruity between ADHD-relevant conceptualizations of ED and available measures of ED. To assess the psychometric properties of a parent-report questionnaire of ED…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Emotional Problems, Test Validity, Psychometrics
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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
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Gebhardt, Markus; Zehner, Fabian; Hessels, Marco G. P. – Frontline Learning Research, 2014
The mission of German special schools is to enhance the education of students with Special Educational Needs in the area of Learning (SEN-L). However, recent studies indicate that students with SEN-L from special schools show difficulties in basic arithmetical operations, and the development of basic mathematical skills during secondary special…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Arithmetic, Mathematics, Skills
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Eseryel, Deniz; Ifenthaler, Dirk; Ge, Xun – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2013
The important but little understood problem that motivated this study was the lack of research on valid assessment methods to determine progress in higher-order learning in situations involving complex and ill-structured problems. Without a valid assessment method, little progress can occur in instructional design research with regard to designing…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Computer Games, Educational Games, Web Based Instruction