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Huang, Jinyan; Dong, Yaxin; Han, Chunwei; Wang, Xiaojun – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2023
Using expert reviews and item response theory (IRT), this study evaluated the language- and culture-related construct-irrelevant variance and reliability of the 2019 TIMSS sense of school belonging scale (SSBS) for grades 4 and 8. The five items of the SSBS, which were identical for both grades, were reviewed for the language- and culture-related…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Test Reliability, Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries
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Sforza, Elisabetta; Onesimo, Roberta; Triumbari, Elizabeth Katherine; Leoni, Chiara; Giorgio, Valentina; Rigante, Donato; Proli, Francesco; Kuczynska, Eliza Maria; Ramsay, Maria; Zampino, Giuseppe – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2023
Background: The Montreal Children's Hospital Feeding Scale (MCH-FS) allows paediatricians and other health care professionals to identify feeding difficulties among children. Aim: To translate and adapt the MCH-FS into Italian, and to evaluate the validity and reliability of this Italian version of the Montreal Children's Hospital Feeding Scale…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Hospitals, Hospitalized Children, Food
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Watanabe, Naomi; Denham, Susanne A.; Jones, Nicole M.; Kobayashi, Tessei; Bassett, Hideko H.; Ferrier, David E. – SAGE Open, 2019
To facilitate preschoolers' emotional development, it is useful to have a developmentally and culturally appropriate measure of emotion knowledge. The Affect Knowledge Test (AKT), a widely used measure of emotion knowledge, has been previously used with diverse cultural groups, including Japanese preschoolers, despite scarce reliability and…
Descriptors: Emotional Development, Preschool Children, Psychometrics, Test Reliability
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Alhadabi, Amal; Aldhafri, Said; Alkharusi, Hussain; Al-Harthy, Ibrahim; AlBarashdi, Hafidha; Alrajhi, Marwa – European Journal of Educational Research, 2019
The current study aimed to adopt and assess the psychometric properties and measurement invariance of Grit-S among Omani and American students (N = 487) using Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and Multi-Group Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA). The scale's construct validity was estimated by investigating its associations with achievement goal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Measures (Individuals), Psychometrics
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Gloria, Alberta M.; Castellanos, Jeanett; Kanagui-Munoz, Marlen; Rico, Melissa A. – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2012
The use of depression scales as screening tools at university and college centers is increasing and thus, the question of whether scales are culturally valid for different student groups is increasingly more relevant with increased severity of depression for students and changing student demographics. As such, this study examined the reliability…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Validity, Measures (Individuals), Depression (Psychology)
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Miville, Marie L.; Gelso, Charles J.; Pannu, Raji; Liu, Will; Touradji, Pegah; Holloway, Pauline; Fuertes, Jairo – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1999
Describes results of study of a 45-item scale developed to measure the construct and administered to four separate samples. The Miville-Guzman Universality-Diversity Scale significantly correlated in theoretically predicted ways with measures of racial identity, empathy, health narcissism, feminism, androgyny, homophobia, and dogmatism (the last…
Descriptors: College Students, Construct Validity, Cultural Differences, Discriminant Analysis
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Chong, Sandra; Michael, William B. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2000
Studied the internal consistency reliability and construct validity of scores on a Korean version of the Dimensions of Self-Concept Scale (W. Michael and R. Smith, 1976) with samples of 213, 191, and 213 junior high and high school students in Korea. Results generally support the internal consistency reliability and the construct validity of the…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences
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Massatti, Richard R.; Vonk, M. Elizabeth; Gregoire, Thomas K. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2004
The present study provides information on the reliability and validity of the Transracial Adoption Parenting Scale (TAPS), a multidimensional 36-item Likert-type scale that measures cultural competence among transracial adoptive (TRA) parents. The TAPS was theoretically developed and refined through feedback from experts in TRA adoption. A…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Construct Validity, Test Validity, Child Rearing
Tombokan-Runtukahu, Juliana; Nitko, Anthony J. – 1991
Whether the construct of adaptive behavior, which has been developed and operationalized in western countries, could be successfully operationalized in a non-western country, Indonesia, was studied. Focus was on delineating procedures for cross-cultural adaptation and operationalization of the construct; creating an operationalization of the…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Children, Comparative Testing, Construct Validity
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Casillas, Alex; Schulz, E. Matthew; Robbins, Steven B.; Santos, Paulo Jorge; Lee, Richard M. – Journal of Career Assessment, 2006
The present study uses item response theory (IRT) to establish comparability between the English and Portuguese versions of the Goal Instability Scale (GIS), a measure of generalized motivation. A total of 2,848 American and 679 Portuguese high school students were administered their respective language versions of the GIS. Results showed only…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Cross Cultural Studies, Item Response Theory, Rating Scales