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Peer reviewedDanseco, Evangeline R.; Marques, Paul R. – Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse, 2002
The Problem-Oriented Screening Instrument for Teenagers (POSIT) screens for multiple problems among adolescents at risk for substance use. A shortened version of the POSIT was developed, using factor analysis, and correlational and reliability analyses. The POSIT-SF shows potential for a reliable and cost-efficient screen for youth with substance…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Factor Analysis, Psychometrics
Peer reviewedTarakeshwar, Nalini; Pargament, Kenneth I.; Mahoney, Annette – Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology, 2003
Examines religious practices of Hindus in the United States and develops measures of their religious pathways. Four religious pathways were identified: devotion, ethical action, knowledge, and physical restraint/yoga. Results indicate that the measures of the religious pathways possessed adequate psychometric properties and were predictive of…
Descriptors: Ethics, Hinduism, Knowledge Level, Measures (Individuals)
Peer reviewedShek, Daniel T. L. – Adolescence, 2002
The Chinese Perceived Causes of Poverty Scale (CPCPS), constructed to assess how Chinese people explain poverty, covers four areas of explanations: personal problems, lack of opportunities, exploitation, and bad fate. Chinese secondary school students were administered the CPCPS. Four subscales were abstracted from their responses and found to be…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Economic Factors, Foreign Countries, Poverty
Peer reviewedBrown, James Dean – Language Testing, 1990
Presents simplified methods for deriving estimates of the consistency of criterion-referenced, English-as-a-Second-Language tests, including (1) the threshold loss agreement approach using agreement or kappa coefficients, (2) the squared-error loss agreement approach using the phi(lambda) dependability approach, and (3) the domain score…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning
Peer reviewedMcDonald, William M. – College Student Affairs Journal, 1999
Describes the development of the College and University Community Inventory (CUCI), an instrument designed to measure the extent of community within colleges and universities for students. Article discusses the methods for establishing the instrument's validity and ascertaining reliability indices. (Contains 18 references.) (Author/GCP)
Descriptors: College Environment, Community Role, Higher Education, Measurement Techniques
Peer reviewedKadish, Tara E.; Glaser, Brian A.; Calhoun, Georgia B.; Ginter, Earl J. – Journal of Addictions & Offender Counseling, 2001
Describes the development of the Life-Skills Development Scale-Juvenile Form, a brief self-report instrument for assessing the life-skills development of juvenile offenders. Presents reliability and validity findings, provides implications for treatment planning, and discusses recommendations for further research. (Contains 26 references and 1…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Daily Living Skills, Delinquency, Measures (Individuals)
Peer reviewedBirk, Janice M.; Rayburn, Carole A.; Richmond, Lee J. – Counseling and Values, 2001
Describes the development of the Religious Occupations and Stress Questionnaire (ROS), which attempts to fill the need for an appropriate measure of the stress experienced by individuals in religious occupations. Results of reliability and validity studies indicate high internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and construct validity.…
Descriptors: Church Workers, Construct Validity, Quality of Working Life, Questionnaires
Peer reviewedWalters, Glenn D. – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2001
Explores response styles and sets capable of altering a person's responses in the thinking portion of the Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS). Constructs and incorporates into the PICTS validity scales to measure confusion and defensiveness. Results reveal that internal consistency, reliability, and validity of these two…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Correctional Rehabilitation, Criminals, Psychological Testing
Peer reviewedDavison, Mark L.; Kuang, Haijiang – School Psychology Quarterly, 2000
Reviews the articles in this issue of "School Psychology Quarterly" and briefly compares their methods for identifying profile patterns. Argues that subtest profile patterns on the existing generation of intelligence tests have modest reliability and weak relationships with achievement and diagnostic categorizations. (Contains 13…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Intelligence Tests, Models, Profiles
Peer reviewedCarney, Amy G.; Merrell, Kenneth W. – Psychology in the Schools, 2002
Comparability of a Spanish language translation of the Preschool and Kindergarten Behavior Scales (PKBS) was examined in relation to the English language version. Children were rated concurrently by respondents on English and Spanish versions of the PKBS. Results showed virtually identical internal consistency of scores on both forms on Social…
Descriptors: Kindergarten Children, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Primary Education
Peer reviewedCostenbader, Virginia; Ngari, Stephen Mbugua – School Psychology International, 2001
Establishes a Kenyan standardization of the Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices (RCPM), a nonverbal instrument widely used to assess academic aptitude in young children. Data was gathered from a sample of 1,370 children between the ages of 6 and 10 years. Using the current data, the RCPM appears to be a reliable and valid instrument for use in…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Intelligence Tests, Screening Tests
Yuker, Harold E.; Block, J. R. – 1986
The monograph provides a review of research studies over the past 25 years which have made use of the Attitude Toward Disabled Persons (ATDP) Scale. The report focuses on pertinent information about the scales, their psychometric properties, and the multitude of ways they have been used. An introductory chapter looks briefly at the history of the…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Attitude Measures, Attitudes, Attitudes toward Disabilities
PDF pending restorationRay, John J. – 1982
Projective measurement of achievement motivation can be achieved by using a large number of scales quite suitable for this purpose and related concepts. This paper is a guide to the literature on measuring achievement motivation rather than a detailed review of each scale. The author introduces his scale which he feels is unique because it…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Forced Choice Technique, Measurement Techniques, Rating Scales
Whitney, Douglas R.; And Others – 1985
This research brief summarizes the available reliability and validity data available in, but spread throughout, a number of General Educational Development (GED) Testing Service publications. A section on reliability discusses how to determine reliability of a test's scores and two ways of assessing the reliability of a test--internal consistency…
Descriptors: Adult Education, High School Equivalency Programs, Item Analysis, Scores
Kim, Hak Soo – 1982
Defining coorientational accuracy as how closely one person estimates another's orientation to something cooriented, this paper examines the reasons why the concept has been favored as a criterion for communicating and how it has been measured. It notes problems in measuring accuracy with reference to various ways the orientation situation has…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer), Evaluation Methods
