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Direct linkWang, Tong; You, Xu Qun; Huang, Xi Ting – Applied Developmental Science, 2022
Life-purpose orientations can highly influence people's life paths and well-being. However, existing psychological measurements tend to dismiss the need for assessing the individual's life purpose orientations, especially in non-Western cultures. This study sought to develop a new measure to assess purpose orientations specific to the Chinese…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attitudes, Goal Orientation
Download full textCarrió-Pastor, María Luisa; Martín Marchante, Beatriz – International Journal of English Studies, 2018
The work at hand is part of a wider study the aim of which was to determine what kind of factors influence failures in pragmatic items of an online adaptive placement test taken by a group of 34 Spanish students in their first year at university. A preceding analysis (Carrió & Martín, 2016) showed the type of personal factors, such as lack of…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Test Items, Language Tests, College Freshmen
Kirkpatrick, Robert; Hlaing, Hmone Lian – Language Testing in Asia, 2013
This study examines the English section of the university entrance examination in Myanmar in terms of validity, reliability, practicality, and washback. The study highlights the significance of the matriculation examination, evaluates individual test items, and presents the opinions of teachers and students about the test. The results reveal that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Entrance Examinations, Test Reliability, Test Items
Fernandes, Anthony; McLeman, Laura – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2012
In this paper, we describe the initial stage of reliability and validity testing for the Mathematics Education of English Learners Scale (MEELS), which is designed to measure preservice teachers' beliefs about the mathematics education of English learners. To address the content validity, we consulted with experts within the field of mathematics…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Mathematics Education, English Language Learners, Preservice Teachers
