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Xie, Sha; Li, Hui – Early Education and Development, 2019
Research Findings: A growing number of young children encounter group learning environment for the first time when entering preschool at age 3, yet their parents and teachers have no means to discern whether they are ready for this challenge. To address this uncertainty, this study developed and validated the Chinese Preschool Readiness Scale…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Interpersonal Competence
Furlong, Michael; Dowdy, Erin; Carnazzo, Katherine; Bovery, Bibliana L.; Kim, Eui – Communique, 2014
The reemergence of positive psychology in the past 15 years has brought a renewed focus on psychological dispositions such as gratitude and their relationship to youth's subjective well-being and academic achievement. Similarly, youth development and developmental asset literatures have emphasized the value of examining youth positive…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Psychology, Well Being, Academic Achievement
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Sandell, Rolf; Kimber, Birgitta; Andersson, Marie; Elg, Mattias; Fharm, Linus; Gustafsson, Niklas; Soderbaum, Wendela – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2012
This is a psychometric analysis of an instrument to assess the socio-emotional development of school students, How I Feel (HIF), developed as a situational judgment test, with scoring based on expert judgments. The HIF test was administered in grades 4-9, 1999-2005. Internal consistency, retest reliability, and year-to-year stability were…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Emotional Development, Psychometrics, Construct Validity
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Merrell, Kenneth W.; Cohn, Bradley P.; Tom, Karalyn M. – School Psychology Review, 2011
This study details development and validation efforts for a new strength-based assessment instrument: the Social-Emotional Assets and Resilience Scales, Teacher rating form (SEARS-T). A large and diverse nationwide sample of more than 1,500 teacher ratings of students in kindergarten through Grade 12 was obtained. Factor-analytic procedures…
Descriptors: Research Needs, Teacher Evaluation, Elementary Secondary Education, Construct Validity
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Merrell, Kenneth W.; Felver-Gant, Josh C.; Tom, Karalyn M. – Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2011
Based on the premises that strength-based assessment of children and adolescents is an important emerging area, and that additional tools for this purpose are needed, this study details development and validation efforts on a new strength-based assessment: the Social-Emotional Assets and Resilience Scale, parent form (SEARS-P). Following careful…
Descriptors: Research Needs, Construct Validity, Social Development, Emotional Development
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Brinkman, Sally A.; Silburn, Sven; Lawrence, David; Goldfeld, Sharon; Sayers, Mary; Oberklaid, Frank – Early Education and Development, 2007
This article aims to contribute to the ongoing evaluation of the Australian Early Development Index (AEDI) by investigating its construct and concurrent validity with a subsample of 642 children aged 4 to 5 years drawn from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC). Construct validity was examined by considering the theoretical…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Predictive Validity, Test Validity, Child Development