Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development articles from October 2007

Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development archives from October 2007

Refining the Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional Psychological Help Scale: factorial invariance across two Asian samples.(ARTICLES)(Report)
October 1, 2007... This article describes the validation and refinement of the short, 10-item version of the Attitudes Toward Seeking Professional Psychological Help (E. H. Fischer & J. L. Turner, 1970) scale using 2 separate samples. Confirmatory factor analyses...

Development and initial psychometrics of the Counselor Burnout Inventory.(Report)
October 1, 2007... This article describes the development and psychometric properties of the Counselor Burnout Inventory (CBI), which is designed to meet the needs of the counseling profession by assessing burnout in counselors. Factor structure, concurrent...

A psychometric investigation of the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale using Rasch measurement.(Report)
October 1, 2007... The author used Rasch measurement to examine the reliability and validity of 382 Korean university students' scores on the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale (MCSDS; D. P. Crowne & D. Marlowe, 1960). Results revealed that item-fit...

Illustration of a multilevel model for meta-analysis.(METHODS, PLAINLY SPEAKING)(Report)
October 1, 2007... Clustering effect and non-zero intraclass correlation produce the variability that can be observed in meta-analytic data. Statistical modeling is shown to provide a flexible approach to capturing and describing this empirical variability. The...

Beyond the Big Test: Noncognitive Assessment in Higher Education.(Critical essay)
October 1, 2007... Beyond the Big Test: Noncognitive Assessment in Higher Education by William E. Sedlacek, 2004, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 288 pages, $45.00, ISBN 0787960209. That scores on standardized measures of cognitive assessment continue to reflect...