Previous findings on religious beliefs of teachers suggest a relation between individual religiosity and professional thinking and acting of teachers. Evidence beyond faith schools and teachers with Religious Education (RE) as a subject is scarce, suitable measuring instruments are also lacking. Therefore, this paper reports the development and…

Despite consistent calls for authentic stimuli in listening tests for better construct representation, unscripted texts have been rarely adopted in high-stakes listening tests due to perceived inefficiency. This study details how a local academic listening test was developed using authentic unscripted audio-visual texts from the local target…

The objective of the study was to create and validate an instrument to compile the attitudes and experiences of students towards inclusive education. A total of 544 students from the 6th year of Primary Education and 3rd year of Compulsory Secondary Education participated from 10 schools in the Basque Country (Spain) province of Bizkaia. The…

Currently most special education teachers, including those who teach students with significant disabilities, are evaluated using observation systems designed for general educators. Because the roles and effective teaching practices of special educators differ from general educators, we propose that a more appropriate observation tool is necessary,…

Addressing the lack of English tests that measure critical thinking (CT) abilities of EFL learners, this study aims to develop an English Critical Thinking Test (ECTT) designed to measure the consistency, analysis, and inference CT skills. It is a follow-up to a pilot study to accumulate validity evidence for the use of the ECTT. A total of 262…

The aim of the present study was to examine Turkish teacher candidates' competency levels in writing different types of test items by utilizing Rasch analysis. In addition, the effect of the expertise of the raters scoring the items written by the teacher candidates was examined within the scope of the study. 84 Turkish teacher candidates…

The purpose of this research was standardization through a test construction by addressing the assessment of validity and reliability of Reid's English language learning styles among high school students. This research was of quantitative approach. In this paper, 357 (189 females and 168 males) high school students in Isfahan Province on 2013-2014…

Vocational interest inventories play an important role in supporting adolescents and young adults in their vocational choice. However, existing verbal and pictorial questionnaires have limitations regarding the complexity, abstraction level, and ambiguity of the item material. The presented research attempts to overcome these limitations by…

This study aims to provide preliminary validation for a newly designed instrument to evaluate teaching effectiveness through student classroom engagement and learning gains. The instrument is titled the Middle Semester Classroom Survey of Student Engagement and Learning (MS-CSSEL); it consists of 31items to measure student classroom engagement in…

The aim of this study is to develop a valid and reliable measurement tool that measures critical thinking skills of university students. Pamukkale Critical Thinking Skills Scale was developed as two separate forms; multiple choice and open-ended. The validity and reliability studies of the multiple-choice form were constructed on two different…

The purpose of this mixed-methods research was to develop and validate an instrument to measure teacher self-efficacy for teachers of students with visual impairments (TSVIs). The researcher used a six step process for survey development and validation, which included 1) literature review; 2) a preliminary qualitative study; 3) synthesis of…

The main purpose of this study was to provide validity evidence to support the creation and use of three instruments theorised to measure the existence of the form-meaning link between three sets of nonwords, and their assigned meanings within an experiment. The experimental study used a counterbalanced Latin square design to examine and compare…

As community-based service-learning becomes more widely used in occupational therapy (OT) education, valid and reliable outcome measures are needed to ensure that student learning outcomes are meaningfully and consistently measured. Currently, educators may use instructor-developed questionnaires that have not been validated or employ narrowly…

On a given campus, approximately 30% of college students can be classified as bereaved and experiencing grief effects (Varga & Varga, 2019). The Holistic Impact of Bereavement framework (Balk, 2011) illustrates the specific grief effects college students may experience, including those related to the physical, cognitive, behavioral,…

Limited research has been done to explore parental perception of stigma. The present study developed the Parental Perceptions of Public Attitudes Scale to examine perceived stigma among Serbian parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and children with physical disabilities (PD). The convenience sample consisted of 82 participants.…