Development and Exploratory Factor Analysis of a United States’ Version of the International Survey of School Counselors’ Activities

Barriers to the adoption of energy-efficient technologies in the building sector: A survey of Brazil

“…The Pearson's coefficient correlation matrix was computed in order to measure the degree of relationship between the 27 barriers. The correlation matrix was submitted to Bartlett's test for sphericity, which stated that the correlations were statistically significant [94][95][96].…”

“…The last column of Table 3 presents the communality for each variable, which is the proportion of variability that is explained by the factors. The closer the communality is to 1, the better the variable is explained by the factors [95,99]. Thus, for instance, Bar_21 is the variable whose variability is the best explained by this set of factors while Bar_9 is just the opposite.…”

“…There are several criteria to determine the minimal number of factors (or the most important) to be extracted from the correlation matrix [97]. The most important factors are those with a high variance, since the eigenvalues of the correlation matrix equal the variance of each factor, a common criterion is to include the factors with an eigenvalue above 1 [95].…”

Assessing the Influence of Multitiered Systems of Support Training on School Counselors’ Perceptions of School Counseling Activities: Results of a National Study

“…We also requested demographic information. Specifically, we asked respondents to complete the United States version of the International Survey of School Counselor Activities (ISSCA-US; Fan et al, 2019) to help address the gap in knowledge on how training in MTSS relates to the full spectrum of school counselor activities. The ISSCA-US assesses school counselors' beliefs about the appropriateness of activities corresponding to direct and indirect school counseling services with a basis in the ASCA National Model (Fan et al, 2019).…”

“…School counselors indicated whether they completed coursework, continuing education, or supervision focused on MTSS, and whether they had experiences with MTSS. Participants shared their beliefs about appropriate activities for school counselors via the International Survey of School Counselor Activities, United States version (Fan et al, 2019). We found that MTSS training was related to perceptions of career counseling, individual work, group work, leadership, and prevention, highlighting the aspects of MTSS training that corresponded with school counseling roles.…”