John T Willse

Educational measurement, practical applications of classical and modern test theory, outcomes assessment in higher education, computer adaptive testing

There are 10 included publications by John T Willse :

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Accuracy and Reliability of Peer Assessment of Athletic Training Psychomotor Laboratory Skills 2010 1913 Peer assessment is defined as students judging the level or quality of a fellow student's understanding. No researchers have yet demonstrated the accuracy or reliability of peer assessment in athletic training education. To determine the accuracy and...
Assessing creativity with divergent thinking tasks: Exploring the reliability and validity of new subjective scoring methods. 2008 29252 Divergent thinking is central to the study of individual differences in creativity, but the traditional scoring systems (assigning points for infrequent responses and summing the points) face well-known problems. After critically reviewing past scori...
Assessment of Score Dependability of the Wisconsin Schizotypy Scales Using Generalizability Analysis 2010 2131 To investigate the reliability of the Wisconsin Schizotypy Scales, this study applied generalizability analysis with two college student samples who completed the scales at two time points. The results indicated that the Revised Social Anhedonia Scal...
Cognitions of Expert Supervisors in Academe: A Concept Mapping Approach 2014 1872 Eighteen expert supervisors reported their thoughts while preparing for, conducting, and evaluating their supervision sessions. Concept mapping (Kane & Trochim, ) yielded 195 cognitions classified into 25 cognitive categories organized into 5 supervi...
Expanding the start of the college pipeline: Ninth grade findings from an experimental study of the impact of the early college high school model 2012 2733 Early college high schools are a new and rapidly spreading model that merges the high school and college experiences and that is designed to increase the number of students who graduate from high school and enroll and succeed in postsecondary educati...
Preparing students for college: the implementation and impact of the Early College High School model 2010 2411 As implemented in North Carolina, Early College High Schools are small, autonomous schools designed to increase the number of students who graduate from high school and are prepared for postsecondary education. Targeted at students who are underrepre...
Promoting Self-Esteem in Adolescents: The Influence of Wellness Factors. 2011 16058 To assess the extent to which holistic wellness factors are predictive of self-esteem, the authors administered the Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventories, School Form (Coopersmith, 2002), and the Five Factor Wellness Inventory (Myers & Sweeney, 2005a) ...
Psychological Climate, Stress, and Research Integrity Among Research Counselor Educators: A Preliminary Study 2010 2205 In this quantitative study, 187 counselor educators at research institutions reported engaging in responsible conduct of research (RCR), with a few individuals reporting deviations from ethical behavior. Tenure-seeking faculty members indicated a ...
Rejoinder: The madness to our method: Some thoughts on divergent thinking 2008 2736 In this reply, the authors examine the madness to their method in light of the comments. Overall, the authors agree broadly with the comments; many of the issues will be settled only by future research. The authors disagree, though, that past researc...
Responsible Conduct of Research Measure: The initial development and pilot study 2008 2483 Although much discussion has been focused on research misconduct (RM) and questionable research practices, to date no self-report measures exist to examine this phenomenon. To help fill this void, the authors developed the Responsible Conduct of Rese...