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Soubhik Barari; Ji Eun Park; Susan Paddock – NORC at the University of Chicago, 2025
Rankings of international higher education institutions have become influential, newsworthy metrics worldwide. This is unsurprising given the rising prevalence of cross-national college attendance. This report evaluates the methodologies of three major international ranking systems: the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU, or…
Descriptors: Reputation, Institutional Evaluation, Colleges, Research Methodology
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Hitchcock, John H.; Sarkar, Sreeroopa; Nastasi, Bonnie; Burkholder, Gary; Varjas, Kristen; Jayasena, Asoka – Journal of Applied School Psychology, 2006
Despite on-going calls for developing cultural competency among mental health practitioners, few assessment instruments consider cultural variation in psychological constructs. To meet the challenge of developing measures for minority and international students, it is necessary to account for the influence culture may have on the latent constructs…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Construct Validity, Cultural Differences, Factor Analysis
Dragonas, Thalia; And Others – 1993
Focusing on how the definition and assessment of quality day care are culturally specific, this paper reviews the development and validity of the Child Care Facility Schedule (CCFS), a procedure for assessing quality in child care settings in many countries. This project was initiated by the Division of Mental Health of the World Health…
Descriptors: Concurrent Validity, Construct Validity, Cultural Differences, Day Care Centers