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Gotch, Chad M.; French, Brian F. – Educational Assessment, 2020
The State of Washington requires school districts to file court petitions on students with excessive unexcused absences. The "Washington Assessment of Risks and Needs of Students" (WARNS), a self-report screening instrument developed for use by high school and juvenile court personnel in such situations, purports to measure six facets of…
Descriptors: Risk Assessment, Needs Assessment, Truancy, Measurement Techniques
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Valdivia Vázquez, Juan Antonio; Rubio Sosa, Juan Carlos A.; French, Brian F. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2015
The Trait Meta-Mood Scale (TMMS) is an emotional intelligence (EI) assessment originally developed for the U.S. population. This scale measures three EI factors--attention, clarity, and repair--to evaluate how an individual perceives one's own EI skills. Although the TMMS has been adapted for use in several languages and cultures, the structure of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Emotional Intelligence, Intelligence Tests, Spanish
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Gotch, Chad M.; French, Brian F. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2011
The Brigance Comprehensive Inventory of Basic Skills-II (CIBS-II)-Readiness form is a diagnostic battery intended for children aged 5 and 6 years. The CIBS-II-Readiness is a new version of the CIBS-Revised-Readiness and includes updated normative information on a larger representative sample in comparison to the CIBS-Revised-Readiness. Empirical…
Descriptors: Evidence, Construct Validity, Factor Structure, Factor Analysis
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Breidenbach, Daniel H.; French, Brian F. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2012
The Brigance Comprehensive Inventory of Basic Skills-II (CIBS-II) is the newest version of a long-standing instrument that is useful for identifying student achievement, identifying and monitoring academic strengths and weaknesses, obtaining data to support referrals, and reporting progress for individual educational plans. Since the CIBS-II is…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Test Validity, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation
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Duffin, Lisa C.; French, Brian F.; Patrick, Helen – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2012
This study examined the factor structure of the Teachers' Sense of Efficacy Scale (TSES; Tschannen-Moran & Woolfolk Hoy, 2001) using the scores of pre-service teachers at the beginning stage of teacher development to gather internal structure score validity evidence. Two plausible rival models derived from prior research were tested using CFA.…
Descriptors: Knowledge Base for Teaching, Self Efficacy, Factor Structure, Measures (Individuals)
French, Brian F.; Breidenbach, Daniel H.; Field, William E.; Tormoehlen, Roger – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2007
The written certification exam that accompanies the Gearing Up for Safety-Agricultural Production Safety Training for Youth curriculum was designed to partially meet the testing requirements of the Agricultural Hazardous Occupations Order (AgHOs) Certification Training Program. This curriculum and accompanying assessment tools are available for…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Factor Structure, Factor Analysis, Psychometrics
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Mantzicopoulos, Panayota; French, Brian F.; Maller, Susan J. – Child Development, 2004
Competing models of the factorial structure of the Pictorial Scale of Perceived Competence and Social Acceptance (PSPCSA) were tested for fit using multisample confirmatory factor analysis. The best fitting model was tested for invariance (a) across samples of middle-class (n251) and economically disadvantaged (Head Start, n=117) kindergarten…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Measures (Individuals), Economically Disadvantaged, Kindergarten