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Fumiko Yoshida; Gary J. Conti; Toyoaki Yamauchi; Misa Kawanishi – Journal of Education and Learning, 2025
This paper presents the development and validation of the Learning & Educator Nurturing Style (LENS), a new inventory in Japanese designed to identify and assess educational philosophy. Based on the Philosophies Held by Instructors of Lifelong-learners (PHIL) framework, LENS was created through a rigorous back-translation process to ensure…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Philosophy, Test Construction, Test Validity
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Lee, In Heok; Sovet, Laurent; Banda, Kiyomi; Kang, Dae-Koo; Park, Joo-Ho – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2021
The Career Adapt-Abilities Scale (CAAS) has been validated in several East Asian countries, but the measurement equivalence of its four dimensions and construct validity has not yet been evaluated in Japan. Results from Japanese (n = 298) and South Korean (n = 301) college students indicated good to excellent internal consistency estimates, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Measures (Individuals), Construct Validity, Test Reliability
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Yoshida, Fumiko; Conti, Gary J.; Yamauchi, Toyoaki; Iwasaki, Takaaki – Journal of Adult Education, 2014
Teaching style has been a popular concept for many years. Teaching style refers to the distinct qualities displayed by a teacher that are persistent from situation to situation regardless of the content. The Principles of Adult Learning Scale (PALS) has been used extensively in the West for measuring teaching style in relationship to the adult…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Styles, Test Construction, Adult Learning
Templin, Stephen A.; Guile, Timothy C.; Okuma, Takanobu – 2001
This study investigated whether a self-efficacy course would raise English-as-a-Second-Language learners' English ability by raising their self-efficacy. It also examined the reliability and validity of a self-efficacy questionnaire and English test. Participants were 293 Japanese college freshmen. Researchers developed two versions of an English…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Miyashita, Keiko; Knezek, Gerald – Journal of Computing in Childhood Education, 1992
The Young Children's Computer Inventory is a Likert-type survey instrument designed for use by first grade students at home or in schools. Addresses the historical antecedents of the instrument, reports construct validity and reliability based upon pilot tests in the United States and Japan, and provides recommendations for the practitioner with…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Computers, Creativity, Elementary School Students