The Use of Course Grades in the Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes for General Education
| Autor: | Chelsi King, Colleen E. Phillips, Trisha M. Kivisalu, Carol Van Der Karr, Merle Canfield |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Higher education
business.industry General Arts and Humanities Discriminant validity General Social Sciences Construct validity Test validity lcsh:History of scholarship and learning. The humanities Confirmatory factor analysis Test (assessment) lcsh:Social Sciences lcsh:H Convergent validity lcsh:AZ20-999 Mathematics education business Psychology Social psychology Reliability (statistics) |
| Zdroj: | SAGE Open, Vol 5 (2015) |
| ISSN: | 2158-2440 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/2158244015615921 |
| Popis: | The reliability and validity of course grades as measures of general education learning outcomes were assessed using the multitrait-multimethod (MTMM) proposed by Campbell and Fiske. Convergent validity and discriminant validity were assessed on college undergraduate students over a 12-year period. Two procedures were used to test the MTMM. The first procedure was a nested confirmatory factor analysis proposed by Widaman. The second procedure, proposed here, was a direct method to assess discriminant and convergent validity. The analyses were calculated on two different data sets. The data sets included discipline majors and general education categories. Convergent validity and discriminant validity were supported. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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