The science of education has focused on alternative educational approaches for years with a view to meeting the needs of wide student audiences in classes. One of the sources of the differences in learning performance at class environment is the learning styles. This study has been conducted to develop a learning styles scale for students at the…

In cross-cultural child development research there is often a need to translate instruments and instructions to languages other than English. Typically, the translation process focuses on ensuring linguistic equivalence. However, establishment of linguistic equivalence through translation techniques is often not sufficient to guard against…

Online professional development is multidimensional. It encompasses: a) an online, web-based format; b) professional development; and most likely c) specific objectives tailored to and created for the respective online professional development course. Evaluating online professional development is therefore also multidimensional and as such both…

A novel use of periodic functions, called the periodic procedure, was recently introduced to make practical the use of certain physical measurement ideas in psychology. This paper reports a successful attempt to apply the periodic procedure to an important psychological measurement problem, the measurement of aptitude test item difficulties. The…

The problem of selecting the size of the tails from a sample drawn from a distribution of test scores for item analysis study is discussed. (Author)

This state-of-the-art review describes the genesis, structure, methods, applications, limitations and goals of the ordering analytic approach to hierarchical analysis, with specific reference to its relevance and use in educational, psychology and behavioral sciences. Hierarchy is defined as an "ordering" of objects such that the…

Conducts a comparative investigation of selected item analysis programs currently available which could serve as a base for judicious program selection and use. (RC)

The Q Sort method is a rank order procedure. A FORTRAN program is described which calculates a total value for any group of cases for the items in the Q Sort, and rank orders the items according to this composite value. (Author/JKS)

This note refers to EJ 056 482. (CB)

Some suggestions for computations are given for simultaneous determination of squared multiple correlations for all measures. (Authors)

The polyserial and point polyserial correlations are discussed as generalizations of the biserial and point biserial correlations. The relationship between the polyserial and point polyserial correlation is derived. Some practical applications of the polyserial correlation are described. (Author/JKS)