Quarterly of Educational Measurement

Construction and Normalization of Adolescent Social Loafing Questionnaire

Noor Ali Farokhi

Volume 10, Issue 37 , October 2019, , Pages 57-70

https://doi.org/10.22054/jem.2020.23503.1582

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Back ground: Nowadays use of teams and work groups to perform different tasks is increasing Social loafing point to the important thing that people may show less conscious effort in group than when working individually . Aim: The present study aimed to Construction and Standardization of adolescents ... Read More

Measuring class learning and test related emotions: a study of internal validity and reliability of the Persian version of the achievement emotions questionnaireamong Iranian university students

akbar rezai

Volume 3, Issue 12 , July 2013, , Pages 1-22

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Background: students experience different emotions in academic settings and these emotions highly affect their learning motivation performance andalso health. However the process of research on these areas is slow probably because of the lack of appropriate instruments. In response to this deficit pekrun ... Read More

An Evaluation of the Theoretical Part of the Driver’s- License Test Based on the Item-Response Test Theory and Its Comparison with the Classical Test Theory

esmail mam sharifi; ali delavaran; azadeh boluki; somayeh shabani

Volume 2, Issue 7 , April 2012, , Pages 1-34

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Background: This study was administered with the aim of investigating the psychometric properties of the theoretical part of the driver’s license test. The study sample included the responses of a group of 350 subjects, selected through multi-cluster sampling, to the 30 randomly chosen theoretical ... Read More Background: This study was administered with the aim of investigating the psychometric properties of the theoretical part of the driver’s license test. The study sample included the responses of a group of 350 subjects, selected through multi-cluster sampling, to the 30 randomly chosen theoretical questions of the driver’s license test. In order to investigate the psychometric properties of the test questions, the results obtained from both the classical test theory and the item-response test theory were compared and evaluated. The study adopted a descriptive methodology and the accuracy of the sample was verified at the beginning. Factor analysis and Cronboch method were used to determine the unidimensionality of the test. Then the test questions were analyzed based on the classical and the item - response test theories and the question parameters (difficulty, discrimination and guessing) and the ability due to uncertainty were extracted using the simultaneous estimation method. Results: The results of the study confirmed the unidimensionality and independence of the test. After determining the main theory assumptions of the IRT, the model - data fitting was evaluated and the results of the two-parameter model showed better fitting with the data. In the next step, the question parameters and the ability factor were evaluated with the T-test. Results showed that there was no significant relationship in determining the accuracy of estimating the difficulty, slope and ability parameters between the classical theory and the item - response theory. In order to check the reliability and the stability of the test results on the first run, a test - retest was administered to a sample of 30 subjects. Since the present test is a kind of reference criterion, Kappa coefficient of reliability was used to settle the disagreements. Results showed that there is a significant relationship between the first run and the second run and moreover the test has sufficient reliability and validity to be administered in different cases. Conclusion: The analysis of the question parameters and subjects confirmed the simplicity of the test and its high capacity to distinguish the ability of the subjects. It can, therefore, be concluded that the test questions are more accurate with subjects with lower ability. In comparison to the classical theory, the estimated ability in the item - response theory is closer to the real rate. According to the estimated abilities, questions can be selected based on subjects’ abilities which can finally lead to the creation of a question bank.

Construction and standardization of Academic procrastination test

karim Sevari

Volume 2, Issue 5 , October 2011, , Pages 1-15

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Background: Academic procrastination has been an important debate in recent years, and many researchers see it as a bad habit (Chase, 2003) and also a behavioral problem that many adults experience it in their daily activities (Johansen and Carton, 1999). Objective: The main purpose of this research ... Read More

Construction and standardization test to measure personality based on the Golestan Saadi

r sohrabi; ali mirzaei

Volume 1, Issue 4 , July 2011, , Pages 1-29

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This descriptive correlation study is aimed at constructing and standardizing a test to measure personality based on Golestan Saadi. 276 students (137 female and 139 male) from Allameh Tabatabaee University were participated in this study. The questionnaire with 108 items was based on content analysis ... Read More This descriptive correlation study is aimed at constructing and standardizing a test to measure personality based on Golestan Saadi. 276 students (137 female and 139 male) from Allameh Tabatabaee University were participated in this study. The questionnaire with 108 items was based on content analysis of the characteristics mentioned by Saadi in the first chapter of Golestan. In order to gathering the data, the questionnaires were filled by the students. Exploratory factor analysis by SPSS software was used to determine the numbers of the basic factors. The findings of this study confirm the questions. The calculated Cronbach Alpha coefficient was high (α= 0/96), which shows high reliability and internal consistency of the questionnaire. Construct validity (calculated by exploratory factor analysis with Varimax rotation) was also desirable. An exploratory factor analysis with Varimax rotation was administered on the questionnaires. According to the results, the final questionnaire consists of 63 items categorized in 5 basic components, including: ‘social maturity’,’ searching for connection’, ‘economical time use’, ‘kindness’ and ‘generosity’. The results also showed that discriminant validity of the questionnaire (its power for differentiating between groups) is desirable, as if two groups of healthy participants and clients of counseling centers can be distinguished by the questionnaire. On the other hand, norm tables of Z and T scores have been plotted for ’economical time use’ component separately because except for ‘economical time use’ component no difference between females and males’ mean scores were found (by independent sample t-test). Therefore, the tables were plotted generally for other components and for the total score. The criterion-related validity of the questionnaire with five factors of NEOPI-R is within acceptable limits. Cut-off point of the test was determined by calculating the confidence interval of total score and each scale of the test.

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Construction and Normalization of Adolescent Social Loafing Questionnaire

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Measuring class learning and test related emotions: a study of internal validity and reliability of the Persian version of the achievement emotions questionnaireamong Iranian university students

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An Evaluation of the Theoretical Part of the Driver’s- License Test Based on the Item-Response Test Theory and Its Comparison with the Classical Test Theory

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Construction and standardization of Academic procrastination test

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Construction and standardization test to measure personality based on the Golestan Saadi

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