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McKenzie, J. F.; Wood, Martin L.; Kotecki, Jerome E.; Clark, J. R.; Brey, Rebecca A.

doi:10.5993/ajhb.23.4.9

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“…To ensure that the list of items we developed corresponded to the construct of student engagement, we identified eight experts on student engagement and math and science instruction to judge how well the items represented the construct. Each expert was asked to rate each of the items on clarity (how understandable each item was) and relevance (how well each item represented the construct) (see McGartland Rubio, Berg-Weger, Tebb, Lee, & Rauch, 2003, McKenzie, Wood, Kotecki, Clark, & Brey, 1999, for description of the expert validation process). In addition, experts were asked to provide suggestions on alternative wording and on any aspects of the construct that they felt were not adequately represented by the set of items.…”

Section: Study 2: Survey Developmentmentioning

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Using qualitative methods to develop a survey measure of math and science engagement

Fredricks

Wang

Linn

et al. 2016

Learning and Instruction

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Student engagement in math and science is vital to students' academic achievement and longterm participation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematic (STEM) courses and careers. In this study, we conducted in-depth interviews with 106 students from sixth to twelfth grade and 34 middle and high school teachers about how they conceptualized math and science engagement and disengagement. Our qualitative analysis of student and teacher interviews supported the multidimensional construct of engagement outlined in the academic literature. Our analysis also revealed additional indicators that have been included in prior measures of engagement less frequently. We then described how we used this qualitative information from students and teachers to develop and validate a new student self-report measure of math and science engagement.

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Section: Study 2: Survey Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Using qualitative methods to develop a survey measure of math and science engagement

Fredricks

Wang

Linn

et al. 2016

Learning and Instruction

216

159

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“…Three psychologists were asked to assess the items' content, meaning, and comprehensibility, using terms proposed as inappropriate; appropriate to some extent -item should be revised; appropriate -minor changes required; and quite appropriate (McKenzie, Wood, Kotecki, Clark, & Brey, 1999). The assessments appropriate -minor changes required and quite appropriate were accepted as appropriate overall, and content validity ratio (CVR) was calculated accordingly (Lawshe, 1975).…”

Section: Content Validitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Italian translation and validation of the GQ-6

Caputo¹

2016

Intnl. J. Wellbeing

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This paper aims at translating the Gratitude Questionnaire (GQ-6) into Italian and at investigating its validity and reliability in this context. In a web-based survey, 204 adult participants (M age = 28.96; SD = 10.27) completed the Italian version of the GQ-6, as well as subjective happiness, life satisfaction, loneliness, and social desirability questionnaires. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses supported a one-factor solution explaining 46.16% of the variance of the original items and an acceptable Cronbach's alpha equal to .745. The Italian version of the GQ-6 was, as expected, positively correlated with subjective happiness, life satisfaction and social desirability and was negatively associated with loneliness, which supported its construct validity. The Italian version of the GQ-6 also showed a discriminant validity relative to other positive affects and a good criterion validity in differentiating both believers and nonbelievers and high and low envious people.

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“…Content validation stage. Given the recommendation that at least five judges should be selected for content validation (McKenzie, Wood, Kotecki, Clark, & Brey, 1999), seven researchers from universities and research institutions in Spain and other countries were asked to serve as a content validation panel. Three of the researchers were experts in the construct we are exploring (reading beliefs), two of them were experts in reading and the other two were experts in beliefs.…”

Section: Phase 1 Construction Of the Cuestionario De Creencias Sobre mentioning

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Development and initial validation of a questionnaire to assess the reading beliefs of undergraduate students: the Cuestionario de Creencias sobre la Lectura

Lordán

Solé

Beltran

2015

Journal Research in Reading

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The aim of this research was to develop a new questionnaire for exploring the reading beliefs of undergraduate students, because the only currently available instrument has conceptual and methodological limitations. The paper describes the process of developing the instrument and presents a range of psychometric data obtained from a sample of 558 Spanish undergraduates who were in the first or final year of a degree programme in psychology, language and literature or engineering. The results provide evidence of the psychometric quality of items and reveal a dual structure of two and six factors, both obtained through exploratory and/or confirmatory factor analyses. Adequate reliability based on internal consistency of the factors was also demonstrated. As a measure of criterion validity, differences in reading beliefs by gender, academic year and knowledge area were also explored. The findings support the psychometric adequacy of this new instrument developed through an exploratory piece of research. Overall, the process of constructing the instrument and the results from this study provide a framework for research and intervention, in addition to presenting a tool that both researchers and teaching staff could use in the context of reading and reading comprehension.

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Cited by 127 publications

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Using qualitative methods to develop a survey measure of math and science engagement

Using qualitative methods to develop a survey measure of math and science engagement

Italian translation and validation of the GQ-6

Development and initial validation of a questionnaire to assess the reading beliefs of undergraduate students: the Cuestionario de Creencias sobre la Lectura

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