Supplemental Information:

n/a

Assessment Type:

Survey

Scale:

Likert scale

Publication Date:

Nov 20, 2018

Respondent:

7-9 year olds

Domain(s) Evaluated:

Attitude / Behavior, Competence

Sample items:

"I find new ways to solve the problem"

Reliability:

The ordinal reliability of the Emerging STEM Learning Activation scale was good (i.e., ordinal alpha = 0.88), indicating that this scale was creating a well-defined latent trait—Emerging STEM Learning Activation.

Validity:

See comment section

Frequency:

Rarely

Administration time:

Under 15 minutes minutes

Requires a Computer:

No

Requires Internet Access:

No

Primary reference:

Chen, Y.-F., Cannady, M. A., & Dorph, R. (2018) Measures technica brief: Emerging STEM learning activation. Retrieved from http://activationlab.org/tools/.

Comments:

Validity: The Emerging STEM Learning Activation items were presumed to measure essentially only one latent trait—Emerging STEM Learning Activation. A confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) with the WLSMV estimator (i.e., an estimator for modeling categorical or ordinal data) was conducted to assess the unidimensionality assumption. The purpose was to know whether the set of items measure what it purports to measure. All of 14 items generated significantly positive factor loadings, ranging from 0.582 to 1.167.

STEM Criteria

Science

Yes

Technology

Yes

Engineering

Yes

Math

Yes

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