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Psychometric Evaluation of an Arabic Version of the Spiritual Involvement and Beliefs Scale in Jordanian Muslim College Nursing Students
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Musa, Ahmad S. – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
A review of the nursing and health-related literature on spirituality revealed that no valid and reliable research tool exists in Arabic for measuring spiritual beliefs and practices for Arab Muslim population. This study translated the Spiritual Involvement and Beliefs Scale (SIBS) into Arabic and examined the psychometric properties of the…
Descriptors: Muslims, Nursing Education, Factor Analysis, College Students
Perfectionism and the Five-Factor Model of Personality
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Rice, Kenneth G.; Ashby, Jeffrey S.; Slaney, Robert B. – Assessment, 2007
In this study of the discriminant, convergent, and incremental validity of the Almost Perfect Scale-Revised (APS-R), university students completed the APS-R, additional measures of perfectionism, the NEO Five-Factor Inventory-Form S, and measures of self-esteem and depression. The results revealed expected significant, but not completely…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Validity, Personality, Psychometrics
Assessing Epistemological Beliefs: Schommer's Questionnaire Revisited.
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Clarebout, Geraldine; Elen, Jan; Luyten, Lieve; Bamps, Hadewych – Educational Research and Evaluation: An International Journal on Theory and Practice, 2001
Reviewed the literature on the questionnaire developed by M. Schommer to assess epistemological beliefs and studied the factor structure of the questionnaire in 2 studies involving 117 junior college students and 148 university students. In neither study could Schommer's factor structure be retrieved. Results reveal counter-indications to the use…
Descriptors: Beliefs, College Students, Epistemology, Factor Analysis
Introduction of the College Student Social Support Scale: Factor Structure and Reliability Assessment.
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McGrath, Patrick B.; Gutierrez, Peter M.; Valadez, Irene M. – Journal of College Student Development, 2000
Introduces the College Student Social Support Scale (CSSSS) and presents initial psychometric data. Six-hundred and seven college students ranging in age from 18 to 31, across three studies, participated in the development and validation of this new self-report measure. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses suggest that the CSSSS is a…
Descriptors: College Students, Factor Structure, Higher Education, Measurement Techniques
Motivation, Styles of Learning, and the Academic Environment.
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Entwistle, Noel – 1979
The current stage in an on-going research program of student learning is summarized. With two more years to run, provisional research provides the beginnings of a model of student learning which is neither static nor mechanistic. Recent research has placed emphasis on describing how students learn and how learning is affected by the academic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Style, College Students, Educational Environment
A Longitudinal Perspective of Students' Evaluations of University Teaching: Ratings of the Same Teachers over a 13-Year Period.
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Marsh, Herbert W. – 1992
Students' evaluations of teacher effectiveness are explored as a multidimensional construct, emphasizing the Students' Evaluations of Educational Quality (SEEQ) instrument developed by H. W. Marsh (1987). An overview is presented of studies in which Marsh evaluated longitudinal data from an archive of responses to nearly 1 million SEEQ instruments…
Descriptors: Analysis of Covariance, Cohort Analysis, College Students, Factor Analysis