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Direct linkKoerber, Susanne; Mayer, Daniela; Osterhaus, Christopher; Schwippert, Knut; Sodian, Beate – Child Development, 2015
The development of scientific thinking was assessed in 1,581 second, third, and fourth graders (8-, 9-, 10-year-olds) based on a conceptual model that posits developmental progression from naïve to more advanced conceptions. Using a 66-item scale, five components of scientific thinking were addressed, including experimental design, data…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Thinking Skills, Parent Background, Educational Attainment
Scahill, Lawrence; Aman, Michael G.; Lecavalier, Luc; Halladay, Alycia K.; Bishop, Somer L.; Bodfish, James W.; Grondhuis, Sabrina; Jones, Nancy; Horrigan, Joseph P.; Cook, Edwin H.; Handen, Benjamin L.; King, Bryan H.; Pearson, Deborah A.; McCracken, James T.; Sullivan, Katherine Anne; Dawson, Geraldine – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2015
Restricted interests and repetitive behaviors vary widely in type, frequency, and intensity among children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder. They can be stigmatizing and interfere with more constructive activities. Accordingly, restricted interests and repetitive behaviors may be a target of intervention. Several standardized…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Behavior Problems, Repetition
Bouwer, Renske; Béguin, Anton; Sanders, Ted; van den Bergh, Huub – Language Testing, 2015
In the present study, aspects of the measurement of writing are disentangled in order to investigate the validity of inferences made on the basis of writing performance and to describe implications for the assessment of writing. To include genre as a facet in the measurement, we obtained writing scores of 12 texts in four different genres for each…
Descriptors: Writing Tests, Generalization, Scores, Writing Instruction
Alvelos, Rita; Ferreira, Aristides I.; Bates, Reid – European Journal of Training and Development, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to contribute to the understanding of factors that affect training effectiveness. According to the literature, social support, perceived content validity, transfer design, the motivation to improve work through learning and positive transfer, contribute to the effectiveness of training.…
Descriptors: Training, Program Effectiveness, Instructional Effectiveness, Social Support Groups
Kaat, Aaron J.; Lecavalier, Luc – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2015
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and anxiety frequently co-occur. Research on the phenomenology and treatment of anxiety in ASD is expanding, but is hampered by the lack of instruments validated for this population. This study evaluated the self- and parent-reported Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale and the Multidimensional Anxiety Scale in…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Anxiety, Youth
Perry, Adrienne; Taheri, Azin; Ting, Victoria; Weiss, Jonathan – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2015
Background: Accurate measurement of adaptive behaviour is important in both clinical and research contexts. While several good clinical measures exist, as well as brief research measures for adults with intellectual disability, there is need for a brief and efficient measure for research with children and youth. We present preliminary psychometric…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Measurement Techniques, Psychometrics, Test Validity
Download full textAslanargun, Engin – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2015
Problem Statement: The quality of education carried out in schools depends largely on the performance of teachers and school principals in cooperation. It is possible to say that a qualified education of students depends on the performance and compliance degree of these two groups. In this process, teachers' having the primary responsibility for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Akani, Omiko – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
This study investigated the levels of possession of science process skills by final year Nigerian Certificate in Education (NCE) Students in colleges of Education in South-Eastern States of Nigeria. The skills that were assessed were observation, experimentation, measurement, communication, and inference. The research was guided by five research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Process Skills, College Students, Likert Scales
Bartels, Jared M. – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2015
The present content analysis examines the coverage of theoretical and methodological problems with the Stanford prison experiment (SPE) in a sample of introductory psychology textbooks. Categories included the interpretation and replication of the study, variance in guard behavior, participant selection bias, the presence of demand characteristics…
Descriptors: Textbook Content, Introductory Courses, Content Analysis, Institutionalized Persons
Grapragasem, Selvaraj; Krishnan, Anbalagan; Joshi, Prem Lal; Krishnan, Shubashini; Azlin, Azlin – International Journal of Higher Education, 2015
The classroom is a learning environment where active interactions and meaningful learning occur between learners and knowledge providers. The teachers and the learners have a unique relationship and this relationship is highly determined by their backgrounds and experiences. Teachers have the responsibility to manage the classroom with the aim of…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Teacher Attitudes, Statistical Analysis, Foreign Countries
Feldt, Ronald; Lindley, Kyla; Louison, Rebecca; Roe, Allison; Timm, Megan; Utinkova, Nikola – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2015
The Emotional Regulation Related to Testing Scale (ERT Scale) assesses strategies students use to regulate emotion related to academic testing. It has four dimensions: Cognitive Appraising Processes (CAP), Emotion-Focusing Processes (EFP), Task-Focusing Processes (TFP), and Regaining Task-Focusing Processes (RTFP). The study examined the factor…
Descriptors: Self Control, Test Anxiety, Metacognition, Factor Structure
Turan, Ilhan – Educational Research and Reviews, 2015
This study investigated Chinese and Turkish prospective geography teachers' use of computer and internet applications as indispensable instruments in and out of education. 292 prospective geography teachers students from Shanghai, China, and Izmir, Turkey, participated in this study. The aim of this study was to examine the use of computers and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Geography, Computer Use
Pellegrino, James W.; Wilson, Mark – Theory Into Practice, 2015
The seven articles in this special issue are concerned with the challenges of assessing complex aspects of cognition in the domains of mathematics, reading, history, and science. Each describes the design of assessments and their interpretive use, with a particular focus on assessments closely tied to classroom instruction. Individually and…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Educational Assessment, Test Construction, Instructional Design
Thompson, Derek – PRIMUS, 2015
The primary goal of this paper is to highlight the possibilities and benefits of incorporating games into college mathematics classrooms. This is illustrated through the personal success of using the board game "The Resistance" to teach validity and soundness of arguments in a discrete mathematics course. Along the way, we will give some…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Educational Games, Mathematical Concepts
Gürer, Burak – Educational Research and Reviews, 2015
The aim of this research is to investigate problem solving skills of the individuals involved in mountaineering. 315 volunteers participated in the study. The research data were collected by problem solving scale developed by Heppner and Peterson and the Turkish version of which was conducted by Sahin et al. There are totally 35 items and only 3…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Problem Solving, Athletics, Recreational Activities
