scholarly journals Environmental Citizenship Questionnaire (ECQ): The Development and Validation of an Evaluation Instrument for Secondary School Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 821 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Ch. Hadjichambis ◽  
Demetra Paraskeva-Hadjichambi
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
High Reliability ◽  
Evaluation Instrument ◽  
Cronbach’S Alpha ◽  
School Students ◽  
Cronbach's Alpha ◽  
Environmental Citizenship

Environmental citizenship is very important in sustainability research. The criticality of the observed environmental crisis requires capable and competent environmental citizens who can act as agents of change to achieve sustainability. This research presents the validation of the Environmental Citizenship Questionnaire (ECQ) for assessing the environmental citizenship of secondary school students. To this end, Principal Component Analysis has been performed through the use of a Confirmatory Factor Analysis. In addition, there has been a verification of sphericity and a measure of sampling adequacy using the Bartlett’s and Kaiser–Meyer–Olkin (KMO) tests, respectively. Cronbach’s Alpha, eigenvalues and percentage of variance as well as Pearson’s correlation were also estimated. Using the data of 520 students in 10th grade, the ECQ showed very good results in all measurements performed, demonstrating high internal consistency, reliability and discriminant validity. From the factor analysis were derived nine factors with 76 items in total. Cronbach’s Alpha was greater than 0.702, indicating high reliability in all factors. The possible contribution of the ECQ in different contexts and educational frames and in sustainability education is discussed.

scholarly journals Validation of the Dutch version of the Chemotherpy-induced Taste Alteration Scale (CiTAS)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marleen Corremans ◽  
Bart Geurden ◽  
Sarah Luyten ◽  
Dimitri Mortelmans
Keyword(s):  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
High Reliability ◽  
Nutritional Risk ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Evaluation Instrument ◽  
Cronbach’S Alpha ◽  
Dutch Version ◽  
Oncological Treatment ◽  
Cronbach's Alpha ◽  
Taste Alteration

Abstract Purpose: Taste and smell alterations are known side-effects of an oncological treatment with chemotherapy and can cause reduced food intake and lead to malnutrition and cachexia. ESPEN guidelines state that organizations should foresee a protocol to identify patients at nutritional risk and that screening should be available for all patients. The Chemotherapy-induced Taste alteration Scale (CiTAS) is described as a self -reported scale with a high reliability and validity. The aim of this study is to make a back translation and validation of the Chemotherapy-Induced Taste Alteration Scale in Dutch.Methods: The evaluation instrument was constructed in a three-phased project. First, the Japanese version was backtranslated to Dutch and piloted in a cognitive interview. In a second phase, a Delphi procedure was followed. Context validity and Cronbach’s alpha were calculated. In a third phase comfirmatory analysis was tested.Results and conclusion: The overall Cronbach’s alpha was 0.89. The convergent and discriminant validity show us that the items that should be related indeed are, like the items in the construct and that items that shouldn’t, are not, as between the constructs. The scale was successfully backward translated and validated in Dutch and is ready to be used to screen Dutch speaking cancer patients with chemotherapy as a treatment for their cancer diagnosis. This version of CiTAS can be implemented in the Flemish speaking part of Belgium and in the Netherlands.

THE INFLUENCES OF PERSONALITY TRAITS, SEX AND PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT AS PREDICTORS OF CAREER PREFERENCE AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN MAKURDI, BENUE STATE

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (7) ◽  
pp. 9-13
Author(s):  
Onah Caleb
Keyword(s):  
Parental Involvement ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Personality Trait ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Alpha Coefficient ◽  
Cronbach’S Alpha ◽  
School Students ◽  
Career Preference ◽  
Cronbach's Alpha

This research examined the influences of personality traits, sex and parental involvement as predictors of career preference among secondary school students in Makurdi, Benue State. 289 participated in the study, representing a return rate of 96.3%. The participants ranged from 14 – 23 years. Data were collected using the Ten Item Personality Inventory (TIPI) developed by Gosling, Rentfrow and Swann (2003), which has a Cronbach’s alpha of .67, the Family Involvement Questionnaire developed by Grover, Houlihan and Campana (2016) has a Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of .81 and Career Choice Questionnaire, developed by Timber (1999) has a Cronbach’s alpha coefficient .76. Four hypotheses were tested and data for the research were analysed using both descriptive and inferential statistics. The results showed that, Personality trait (?=-.234, p<0.05), Sex (?=-.146, p<.05), Parental involvement (?=.364, p<0.05), Personality traits and Parental involvement (?=.635, p<0.05). It was concluded that personality trait, sex and parental involvement produced significant influenced to the prediction of career preference among secondary school student in Makurdi, Benue State while only sex produced significant independent contributions to the prediction of career preference among secondary school students in Makurdi Benue State.  It was therefore recommended that parents and counsellor should be mindful of the personality traits, parental involvement and role of sex in children when guiding them into career choice and the ministry of education should include career education in the school curriculum that will guide students on how to make right career preference and plans in the future.

scholarly journals “Why (Should) I Do Something for the Environment?” Profiles of Flemish Adolescents’ Motivation Toward the Environment

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 2579 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wanda Sass ◽  
Jelle Pauw ◽  
Vincent Donche ◽  
Peter Petegem
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
The North ◽  
Dutch Translation ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Senior Secondary ◽  
Person Centered Approach

The Motivation Toward the Environment Scale (MTES), developed in Canada, measures people’s self-determined motivation for doing something for the environment. Answering the call by its original developers, this study further validated the MTES within a sample of 779 Dutch-speaking senior secondary school students, aged 17 to 19, in the north of Belgium. More specifically, reliability and construct validity of a Dutch translation of the MTES were verified. To this measure, confirmatory factor analysis was used, and the hypothesized simplex structure was tested through correlation analyses. Results confirmed the reliability of the MTES and a five-scale version of the MTES, excluding identified motivation, is introduced. This variable-centered approach was complemented by the adoption of a person-centered approach for identifying MTES profiles. Using cluster analysis, four meaningful MTES profiles emerged, with amotivation scoring medium to high in all but one. Theoretical implications of the findings and suggestions for interventions and further research are discussed.

scholarly journals THE RELIABILITY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE ANXIETY SCALE IN MALAY VERSION BASED ON CRONBACH’S ALPHA

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-47
Author(s):  
Rosnah Mohd. Sham ◽  
Mohd Nazri Latiff Azmi
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Objective Measure ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Language Anxiety ◽  
Foreign Language Anxiety ◽  
Cronbach’S Alpha ◽  
School Students ◽  
Cronbach's Alpha ◽  
The Government

This paper is part of a study which addresses the reliability of Foreign Language Anxiety Scale (FLCAS) in Malay version.  Researchers find that the reliability of an instrument is closely associated with its validity and an instrument cannot be valid unless it is reliable. However, the reliability of an instrument does not depend on its validity. Therefore, this paper investigates the reliability of the instrument called FLCAS in Malay version.  FLCAS is widely used in collecting data relating to language anxiety and perhaps the most reliable and comprehensive tool in language anxiety.  This paper objectively measures the reliability of FLCAS by using Cronbach’s Alpha, the most widely used objective measure of reliability.  The sampled population involved 302 respondents from the government secondary schools in Putrajaya Federal Territory, Malaysia.  The items had been translated into the Malay language and back translated into English.  Results show that the internal consistency of Crobanch’s Alpha 0.90.  It can be concluded that FLCAS in Malay version is an appropriate instrument to measure the levels of language anxiety among the Malaysian secondary school students who learn English as a second language.

scholarly journals Validation of the Index for Inclusion Questionnaire for Compulsory Secondary Education Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 2169 ◽  
Author(s):  
José A. Fernández-Archilla ◽  
Joaquín F. Álvarez ◽  
José M. Aguilar-Parra ◽  
Rubén Trigueros ◽  
Isabel D. Alonso-López ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Secondary Education ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Temporal Stability ◽  
Future Application ◽  
Education Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
Invariant Structure

As one of the protagonists in education, the perspective of the students is fundamental in the determination of inclusive education in an educational center. The Index for Inclusion is an instrument and strategy for self-evaluation. One of their questionnaires, the questionnaire for compulsory secondary education students, is intended for students and has become one of the most used instruments to help teaching teams to self-assess their political and practical cultures from the perspective of the values and principles of educational inclusion worldwide. Some of the questionnaires included in the Index have been used in many studies, mainly in a qualitative way. For this reason, the present study intends to show evidence of validity of the Index for Inclusion questionnaire of students in a quantitative way through an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). In this study, 727 secondary school students (359 boys and 368 girls) aged between 13 and 19 years (M = 13.89; SD = 1.35) took part. They belonged to six educational centers in the province of Almeria. To analyze the temporal stability of the Index for Inclusion student questionnaire, a second independent sample of 81 secondary school students was used, aged between 15 and 18 years (M= 16.14; SD = 0.78). The results revealed adequate adjustment rates, showing the invariant structure with respect to gender. The Student Inclusion Index was shown to be a robust and adequate psychometric instrument to assess the degree of development of inclusive education in schools from the perspective of secondary school students, and therefore, its future application to students in schools is recommended.

Patients’ Perception Towards Branded and Generic Medicines in an Emerging Economy: A Scale Development and Validation Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 1292-1310
Author(s):  
Md. Moddassir Alam ◽  
Arun Mittal ◽  
Deepak Chawla
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Measurement Model ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Emerging Economy ◽  
Measurement Scale ◽  
Generic Medicines ◽  
Cronbach’S Alpha ◽  
Cronbach's Alpha

The study intends to develop and validate a scale to gauge the perception of patients towards branded and generic medicines in an emerging economy like India. Items were generated through literature review and exploratory semi-structured interview with patients and physicians. In the way of establishing generic medicines in the market, patients’ acceptability is very much essential. However, with the advent of information age, the patients are now becoming more conscious and aware regarding the generic medicines, and there is an improvement in the acceptability of generic medicines. Hence, the measurement of their perception towards generic medicines becomes an important issue for various stakeholders of the medical world—physicians, government, pharmaceutical companies and chemists. However, no studies regarding the measurement of perception towards the branded and generic have been conducted to develop and validate measurement scale. The present study is an attempt towards fulfilling this gap. A total of 361 valid responses were obtained using purposive sampling. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was carried out through principal component analysis (PCA) followed by confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to establish the validity of the proposed measurement model. The five factors extracted from EFA were named as quality (Cronbach’s alpha: 0.887), trust (Cronbach’s alpha: 0.919), sustained effectiveness (Cronbach’s alpha: 0.832), reputation (Cronbach’s alpha: 0.881) and psychological benefits (Cronbach’s alpha: 0.737). The obtained factors were found reliable and valid for measuring perception of the patients towards generic and branded medicines in emerging market settings. Convergent and discriminant validity of the scale was also established.

Korean Translation of the Barriers to Research Utilization Scale: Psychometric Testing

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 233-246
Author(s):  
Youngshin Song ◽  
Moonhee Gang ◽  
Misook Jung
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analysis ◽  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
Factor Loading ◽  
Cronbach’S Alpha ◽  
Cronbach's Alpha ◽  
Korean Version ◽  
Convergent And Discriminant Validity ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Average Variance

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to assess the psychometric properties of the Barriers or Facilitators to Using Research in Practice (BARRIERS) scale for use in Korea. Methods: A cross-sectional study design was used with 364 nurses working in clinical settings. Item analysis was conducted and convergent and discriminant validity were evaluated using confirmatory factor analysis. Internal consistency reliability was evaluated using Cronbach’s alpha coefficients. Results: Confirmatory factor analysis revealed a 4-factor structure with 25 items that explained 62.9% of the variance. Convergent and discriminant validity were confirmed as examining the factor loading, average variance extracted, and composite reliability. The values of factor loading for 25 items were having higher estimate than criterion and the average variance extracted value for 4 factors ranged from .575 to .667. The Cronbach’s alpha was .90 for the 25 items. Conclusion: The Korean version of the 25-item BARRIERS scale was a reliable and valid scale to measure barriers to research use in Korean health care settings. Based on this psychometric evaluation, research barriers and its associated factors will be investigated using the Korean version of the BARRIERS scale in further study.

scholarly journals The Development and Validation of a Questionnaire in Bahasa Malaysia to Assess Problems of Vision or Feelings About Vision Among Patients with Cataracts.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adinegara Lutfi Abas ◽  
Thanigasalam Thevi ◽  
Stephanie Yen Li Chang
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Construct Validity ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
High Reliability ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
English Version ◽  
Cronbach’S Alpha ◽  
Cronbach's Alpha

Abstract Purpose: We conducted the study to compare the validation properties of the English version of the Questionnaire and the Bahasa Malaysia (Malay Language) version regarding the Quality of Life of patients with cataracts.Methods: We carried out a cross-sectional study collecting data between June 2017 and March 2018 in the pre-operative Eye Clinic of Hospital Melaka.The Malay version was translated by two independent translators who were well versed in both languages. Methods used to validate the standard questionnaire included the use of construct validity via factor analysis and the deployment of reliability test through assessment of internal consistency via Cronbach’s alpha. Results: We observed both English and Bahasa Malaysia versions to have high reliability with Cronbach’s alpha values of 0.90 and above in factors on difficulty with activities and responses to vision problems.Exploratory factor analysis performed revealed that the three-factor model fits the data well for the English version of the questionnaire - difficulty with activities (23.81% of variance), responses to vision problem (22.22% of variance) and general health and vision (14.68% of variance). The Bahasa Malaysia version of the questionnaire produced three factors with two of the factors resembling the factors from the original version of the questionnaire - difficulty with activities (24.28% of variance) and responses to vision problem (23.66% of variance). Conclusion: The present study observed that both the English and Bahasa Malaysia versions of the NEI VFQ-25 have comparable construct validity to the original American version. With high validity and reliability, the tool shall be able to provide health care providers the assessment of impact due to cataract and other ophthalmic conditions on the vision-related quality of life of ophthalmic patients.

scholarly journals Reliability and Validity of a Chinese Version of the STEM Attitude Scale for Primary and Secondary School Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (22) ◽  
pp. 12661
Author(s):  
Yanjun Zhang ◽  
Qianqian Xu ◽  
Jinghua Lao ◽  
Yan Shen
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Chinese Version ◽  
School Students ◽  
Stem Attitudes ◽  
Stem Career ◽  
Primary And Secondary School

In recent years, STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) education has received widespread attention from all over the world, and there are not many studies on STEM attitudes in China. One of the reasons is the lack of measurement tools that have been tested for reliability and validity. The Chinese version STEM attitudes scale for primary and secondary schools is a multidimensional scale that measures the STEM attitudes of primary and secondary school students. It consists of three subscales: STEM interest, 21st-century skills confidence, and STEM career interest. In order to test the reliability and validity of the scale application, as well as understand and improve the STEM attitudes of primary and secondary school students, the research team surveyed and collected 566 responses from primary and secondary school students in Zhejiang, Shanghai, Shandong, Liaoning, and other places. After exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, and a reliability and validity test, the scale finally retained 48 items. The scale supports a hypothetical five-factor model with good reliability and validity and can be used to assess STEM attitudes in Chinese primary and secondary schools. This research also shows that students’ STEM interests and STEM career interests showed clear variation among different genders, grades, and parental education levels.

scholarly journals Measurement Invariance of the Flourishing Scale among a Large Sample of Canadian Adolescents

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (21) ◽  
pp. 7800
Author(s):  
Isabella Romano ◽  
Mark A. Ferro ◽  
Karen A. Patte ◽  
Ed Diener ◽  
Scott T. Leatherdale
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Racial Identity ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Measurement Invariance ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Population Characteristics ◽  
Psychological Wellbeing ◽  
Model Parameters ◽  
School Students ◽  
Confirmatory Factor

Our aim was to examine measurement invariance of the Flourishing Scale (FS)—a concise measure of psychological wellbeing—across two study samples and by population characteristics among Canadian adolescents. Data were retrieved from 74,501 Canadian secondary school students in Year 7 (2018–2019) of the COMPASS Study and from the original validation of the FS (n = 689). We assessed measurement invariance using a confirmatory factor analysis in which increasingly stringent equality constraints were specified for model parameters between the following groups: study sample (i.e., adolescents vs. adults), gender, grade, and ethno-racial identity. In all models, full measurement invariance of the FS across all sub-groups was demonstrated. Our findings support the validity of the FS for measuring psychological wellbeing among Canadian adolescents in secondary school. Observed differences in FS score among subgroups therefore represent true differences in wellbeing rather than artifacts of differential interpretation.

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