scholarly journals The Albanian Adaptation of the Science Motivation

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 149
Author(s):  
Ahmed Fatih Ersoy ◽  
Ylljet Aliçka
Keyword(s):  
High Schools ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Career Motivation ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
School Students ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
Similar Factor ◽  
Learn Physics

Motivation is an important factor in learning. The purpose of the study is to adopt SMQ-II in Albanian language and to examine the motivation of secondary school students to learn physics and to report the validity and reliability of the study. The sample was 273 secondary school students from five high schools in Albania. The original questionnaire measures five motivation components: intrinsic motivation, self-determination, self-efficacy, career motivation, and grade motivation. The data collected from five high schools was analyzed and similar factor structures were found as in the original questionnaire. Based on the principal component analysis five dimensions for learning physics were found. The Cronbach’s alpha reliability was found to be .894. Physics Motivation Questionnaire, the adopted version of SMQ-II, is a tool to assess secondary school students’ motivation to learn physics.

scholarly journals The Albanian Adaptation of Physics Attitude Test: Validation with 10th Grade Students

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 88
Author(s):  
Ahmed Fatih Ersoy ◽  
Ylljet Aliçka
Keyword(s):  
High Schools ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Achievement Motivation ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
School Students ◽  
Attitude Test ◽  
Newton’S Laws ◽  
Laws Of Motion

Attitude is an important factor in learning. The purpose of the study is to adopt a Turkish attitude test in Albanian language, to examine the secondary school students’ attitude towards Newton’s Laws of Motion, and to report the validity and reliability of the study. The sample was 387 secondary school students from five high schools in Albania. The original questionnaire measures five attitude components, which are enjoyment, self-efficacy, importance of physics, achievement-motivation, and interest related behavior. The data collected from five high schools was analyzed and similar factor structures were found as in the original questionnaire. Based on the principal component analysis five dimensions for learning physics were found. The Cronbach’s alpha reliability was found to be. 75. Physics Attitude Test, is a tool to assess secondary school students’ attitude towards Newton’s Laws of Motion. : Physics, Secondary School Science, Newton’s Laws of Motion, Attitude, Education, Science, Assessment, Albanian, Fizika, Lëndet shkencore në shkollat e mesme, Ligjet e Njutonit, Qëndrim, Edukimi, Shkencë, Vlerësim, Shqip.

scholarly journals PBL Teaching Method through Cooperative Learning

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Eduardo Dopico ◽  
Dolores Pevida
Keyword(s):  
High Schools ◽  
Cooperative Learning ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Secondary School Teachers ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
School Students

The challenges proposed by the knowledge society requires a change of mentality and routines of our students. Consequently, a shift is also needed in the role played by teachers in their education. 34 secondary school teachers from three Spanish high schools, from Ceuta, Madrid and Asturias, working as part of a network, began to introduce project-based learning (PBL) and cooperative learning to facilitate this change. We analyze the correlations between the beliefs and the attitudes of teachers when they were initiating a methodological transition in their patterns of teaching. At the same time, we compare the competencies and strategies related with PBL that 372 secondary school students from these high schools consider being personally important with those who they believe necessary to improve their learning or to be successful with academic requirements.

scholarly journals Construcción y validación de un instrumento para la medida de las actitudes hacia la Expresión Corporal (Construction and validation of an instrument for measuring attitudes towards Body Expression)

Retos ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 443-451
Author(s):  
José Roberto Arias García ◽  
Beatriz Fernández Díez ◽  
Cristina San Emeterio García
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Construct Validity ◽  
Content Validity ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
School Students ◽  
Building Process ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
Para Determinar ◽  
Body Expression

El interés por el estudio de las actitudes de los estudiantes hacia una materia reside en buscar mejorar la enseñanza. Este trabajo da a conocer un instrumento de medida de las actitudes hacia la Expresión Corporal tras un proceso de elaboración y validación. El resultado es un cuestionario estructurado en cuatro factores y 32 ítems dirigido a los estudiantes de Secundaria. El proceso de creación supuso el análisis de la validez de contenido, validez de constructo y fiabilidad. La validez de contenido se llevó a cabo siguiendo la fórmula de Lawshe para analizar la información aportada por un grupo de expertos. La validez de constructo supuso un análisis factorial de los datos extraídos del estudio piloto llevado a cabo. Para determinar la fiabilidad se tuvo en cuenta el cálculo del estadístico alfa de Cronbach. Terminado el proceso de construcción, el resultado es un instrumento de medición de las actitudes hacia la Expresión Corporal de los alumnos de Educación Secundaria. Abstract. The center of interest of studying students’ attitudes towards a subject lies in its possibility to improve the teaching process. This work reveals an instrument to measure attitudes towards Corporal Expression, after a process of elaboration and validation. As a result, we make a questionnarie aimed at Secondary School students and structured into four factors and 32 items known. The building process of the questionnarie consisted of content validity analysis, construct validity, and reliability. Content validity was carried out following the Lawshe formula to analyze the information provided by the group of experts. Construct validity involved a factorial analysis of the data extracted from a pilot study. In order to check reliability, Cronbach alpha statistical calculation was taken into consideration. At the end of this procedure, we obtain an instrument for measuring attitudes towards Corporal Expression in Secondary School Students as the main result.

scholarly journals Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis for Disposition Levels of Computational Thinking Instrument Among Secondary School Students

2022 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 639-652
Author(s):  
Saralah Sovey ◽  
Kamisah Osman ◽  
Mohd Effendi
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Computational Thinking ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Internal Consistency Reliability ◽  
Residual Variance ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
School Students ◽  
Instrument Validity ◽  
Confirmatory Factor

<p style="text-align: justify;">Computational thinking (CT) is a method for solving complex problems, but also gives people an inventive inspiration to adapt to our smart and changing society. Globally it has been considered as vital abilities for solving genuine issues successfully and efficiently in the 21st century. Recent studies have revealed that the nurture of CT mainly centered on measuring the technical skill. There is a lack of conceptualization and instruments that cogitate on CT disposition and attitudes. This study attends to these limitations by developing an instrument to measure CT concerning dispositions and attitudes. The instruments' validity and reliability testing were performed with the participation from secondary school students in Malaysia. The internal consistency reliability, standardized residual variance, construct validity and composite reliability were examined. The result revealed that the instrument validity was confirmed after removing items. The reliability and validity of the instrument have been verified. The findings established that all constructs are useful for assessing the disposition of computer science students. The implications for psychometric assessment were evident in terms of giving empirical evidence to corroborate theory-based constructs and also validating items' quality to appropriately represent the measurement.</p>

FACTOR STRUCTURE OF RELIGIOUS PROBLEM – COPING STYLES IN AN AFRICAN SAMPLE

2002 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 509-514 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl Peltzer
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Varimax Rotation ◽  
School Students ◽  
The Third ◽  
African Sample

The aim of the study was to determine the factor structure of the Religious Problem-Solving Scale in an African population. The sample included 624 students: 314 Grade 12, secondary school students and 310 third year social science university students in South Africa. The principal component analysis with varimax rotation yielded three components accounting for 64% of the total variance. The first factor contained 12 items from the Deferring scale, the second 12 items of the Self-Directing scale and the third factor 12 items from the Collaborative scale. The Deferring rather than the Collaborative religious problem-solving style seems to be more prevalent in this African sample than among western subjects.

scholarly journals Emotional Intelligence of Higher Secondary School Students With Respect to Their Gender

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Arshad Ali Bhat
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Altruistic Behavior ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
School Students ◽  
Jammu And Kashmir ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
Significant Difference

Present Study lights on Emotional Intelligence in higher secondary school students. Emotional intelligence is the ability to understand emotional intelligence and their causes, the capability to effectively regulate these emotions in one self and in others and most importantly being able to use the emotions as a source of and dealing with social situations. The sample of present study was drawn randomly from different higher secondary schools, of baramulla district state Jammu and Kashmir. The researcher therefore selected 11th and 12th grade 120 students randomly from different higher secondary schools of baramulla district, out of 120 students 60 were girls and 60 were boys. The investigator has employed English version of Emotional Intelligence scale (EIS) as developed by Anukool Hyde, Sanjyot Pethe And Upinder Dhar is used for the present study. The scale is based on five dimensions viz. self awareness, empathy, self motivation, emotional stability, managing relations, integrity, self development, value orientation, commitment, altruistic behavior. There is significant difference between boys and girls in the level of emotional intelligence.

scholarly journals The level of educational values that are practiced by the secondary school students in Bani Obaid Brigade based on their point of view: درجة ممارسة طلبة المرحلة الثانوية في لواء بني عبيد للقيم التربوية من وجهة نظرهم

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (26) ◽  
Author(s):  
Asem ABDALLA SALAMEH AL- ISSA
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Educational Values ◽  
School Students ◽  
National Values ◽  
The Aesthetic

This study aims to identify the level of educational values that are practiced by the secondary school students' in Bani Obaid Brigade in Irbid city based on their point of view. This study seeks to identify the differences in the responses of the sample members on their practices of educational values ​​according to two variables which are gender and streams. The study covered the total number of all students in the 11th grade of secondary school in Bani Obaid Brigade which is (1884) in the second semester of the academic year 2018/2019. Then, A random sample was chosen from the study population which consist of (754) equal to (4%) percent. After the researcher completed the investigation, the number of respondents who answered the questionnaire was (700). In order to achieve the objectives of the study, the researcher prepared a questionnaire which was finalized after the procedures of validity and reliability for (36) paragraphs. The paragraphs were divided into four scopes: worship scope, moral scope, the national scope, and the aesthetic scope. The results of the study are summarized in the following points: 1- Practicing of the secondary school students in the Bani Obaid Brigade for educational values ​represents the highest average which is (3.89) 2- There are statistically significant differences for the educational value ​​ attributed to the gender variable. The responses of the sample members showed the differences for the male students at level (α = 0.05) 3- There are not statistically significant differences at level (α = 0.05) in the responses of the sample members on the fields of educational values ​​due to the streams variable. 4- Based on the results of this study, the researcher recommends the teachers at the secondary schools at Bani Obaid Brigade in Irbid city to help the students to be more conscious about the necessity of the educational values which play a major role in their personal and social life. Similarly, the national value is one of most important values that the schools have to take care about it by encouraging the student to participate in the national events and festivals. Moreover, the researcher recommends the teachers to encourage the students to buy the national products in order to support the national economic. 5- The researcher suggests holding training courses for the teachers at Bani Obaid Brigade in Irbid city to improve their ability for learning students about the national values. Additionally, he recommends them to conduct researches that help to follow up the students’ behaviors for the educational values in the secondary schools.

scholarly journals VALIDITY AND RELIABILITY ANALYSES FOR THE NATURE OF SCIENCE INSTRUMENT SECONDARY (NOSI-S)

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 429-437
Author(s):  
Senar Temel ◽  
Şenol Şen ◽  
Özgür Özcan
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Nature Of Science ◽  
Prospective Teachers ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Goodness Of Fit ◽  
Fit Indices ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
School Students ◽  
Instrument Validity ◽  
Science Instrument

This research aims to adapt The Nature of Science Instrument Elementary Scale (NOSI-E) developed by Peoples (2012) into Turkish for secondary school students and to analyse the psychometric properties of the scale setting out from the fact that it is a necessity of science education aimed to achieve for students/prospective teachers to have adequate understanding of the nature of science. The validity analyses for the scale were performed with Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) and Cronbach alpha (α) coefficients were calculated for reliability. Following CFA, it was taken for granted that the fit indices for the model met the goodness of fit criterion. On examining the fit indices, the scale was regarded to attain construct validity due to the fact that the χ2/df ratio (1.42) was below 3, that the RMSEA value was at the level of .04 and that the NNFI and CFI (>.90) values were at acceptable levels. On the other hand, α coefficients, which were the internal consistency coefficients calculated for the reliability analysis of the scale, were found to range between .631 and .775, and for the overall scale was calculated as .814. These reliability index values were considered to be at acceptable levels. Keywords: nature of science, NOSI-S, instrument reliability, secondary school students, instrument validity.

scholarly journals Cultural Adaptation and Validation of the Self-Efficacy Scale for Higher Secondary School Students of Odisha

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 90-100
Author(s):  
Venkateswar Meher ◽  
Rajashree Baral
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Cultural Adaptation ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
School Students ◽  
Alpha Reliability ◽  
High Internal Consistency ◽  
Potential Measure

Self-efficacy is a potential measure to develop the capacities of higher secondary school students for producing desired results. Hence, the study of self-efficacy at this level is of utmost importance. In this present study, an attempt is made to culturally adapt the standardized self-efficacy scale of Sherer and Maddux (1982) for the higher secondary school students of Odisha. For this purpose, a sample of 135 higher secondary school students was taken randomly, and ten teachers were taken purposively. Both preliminary and final pilot study was conducted by collecting primary data. Both forward and backward translation was done in consultation with experts. The testing for ‘comparability of language,’ the ‘similarity of interpretation,’ and the ‘degree of understanding’ of the translated scale were measured and found higher scores in all these domains. The psychometric properties of the scale were estimated, i.e., Cronbach alpha reliability of the whole scale 0.85 and split-half reliability of 0.79, which revealed high internal consistency of the scale. The factor analysis was made by following principal component analysis of varimax rotation and Kiser normalization, which extracted four principal components, and the implications of the study were discussed.

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