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María-Paula Rodríguez-Rojas; Ana-María Ramírez-Segura; Pedro Valenzuela-Mora; Julien Dampuré; Fernando Riveros Munévar – SAGE Open, 2024
Critical thinking stands out as one of the most important cognitive abilities needed for effective adaptation to a knowledge-based society in the 21st century. Despite its significance, there remains a lack of consensus regarding the conceptual and methodological frameworks for measuring it. This study aimed to design and validate a comprehensive…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Measures (Individuals), Test Construction, Test Validity
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Tormey, Roland; Laperrouza, Marc – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2023
Professional skills of project planning, risk analysis, ethical design, communication, and working in interprofessional teams are now recognised as core engineering skills. Frequently, they are addressed in engineering education through team projects. However, these skills can be difficult for students to learn as they are often not well defined…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Questionnaires, Engineering Education
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Senocak, Erdal; Baloglu, Mustafa – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2014
The current study adapted the Derived Chemistry Anxiety Rating Scale (DCARS) into Turkish and investigated the preliminary psychometric properties of the Turkish version. The Turkish DCARS is composed of three components, which are derived from 32 Likert-type items that purport to measure anxiety experienced in chemistry-related situations. In the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Chemistry, Rating Scales, Psychometrics
Spencer, Ernest – 1979
From 1974 through 1978, three methods of assessing Scottish high school students' (O level) English achievement were studied: (1) Ordinary (O level) examinations; (2) assessment of writing skills (folio assessment); and (3) criterion referenced tests developed by the Scottish Council for Research in Education (SCRE) to measure the objectives of…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, English, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries
Skoczylas, Rudolph V. – 1971
The Home Bilingual Usage Estimate was designed to measure a person's home-family language usage and to yield a single classification according to a criterion scale. The following classifications were established: English monolingual, English dominant, apparent bilingual, Spanish dominant, or Spanish monolingual. Validity was determined by the…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Elementary Secondary Education, English
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Matthews, Kenneth M.; Brown, Carvin L. – 1979
The Student Achievement Diagnostic Questionnaire (SADQ) is described as measuring: (1) student self concept of ability in English, mathematics, science, and social studies; (2) student attitudes toward their teachers in each of the subjects; (3) student perception of the expectations these teachers have for student achievement in these subjects;…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Attitude Measures, Elementary Secondary Education, English