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Development of the Efficacy Beliefs for Conceptual Change Learning Questionnaire
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Sackes, Mesut; Trundle, Kathy Cabe; Tuckman, Bruce W.; Krissek, Lawrence A. – Journal of Experimental Education, 2012
The purpose of this study was to develop an instrument to assess college students' efficacy beliefs for conceptual change and to examine the psychometric properties of the instrument. Participants were 692 students. Results of the confirmatory factor analysis supported the hypothesized single factor structure of Efficacy Beliefs for Conceptual…
Descriptors: Evidence, College Students, Construct Validity, Factor Structure
Beyond Guns, Drugs and Gangs: The Structure of Student Perceptions of School Safety
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Skiba, Russell; Simmons, Ada B.; Peterson, Reece; McKelvey, Janet; Forde, Susan; Gallini, Sarah – Journal of School Violence, 2004
The failure to consider factors that make a key contribution to violence and its prevention may create serious problems of construct validity for school violence surveys. Further, few studies have assessed the relative importance of variables contributing to perceptions of safety by examining correlations between survey items and overall feelings…
Descriptors: Violence, School Safety, Construct Validity, School Surveys