Session Information
09 SES 13 B, Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Testing and Measurement (Part 2)
Paper Session
Contribution
In our life the time-management is of great value. The life is full of challenges and on an ability to manage our time often depends, whether we will reach our goals.
The objective of the research consists in constructing an integrated parameter (latent variable) “time-management competence” measured on interval scale.
The obtained results can be used for many purposes:
- Estimating quality of a set of the indicators as a measurement tool;
- Monitoring of time-management competence;
- Comparing students’ groups by their time-management competence;
The research was conducted at "Winter Forum of Progressive Youth 2010” of Slavyansk-on-Kuban State Pedagogical Institute, 84 students took part in the survey.
Essential drawbacks of many ways of constructing of latent variables (the weighing method, expert estimations, and indexes) are subjectivity of scales of experts and nonlinearity of a scale. It complicates application of statistical methods of the analysis assuming a linear scale of measurement. Therefore time-management competence is constructed within the framework of the theory of latent variables [4, 5].
Time-management competence is defined operationally - by means of a set of indicators. The used set of indicators (questionnaire items) consists of 25 indicators [3]. Each of indicators characterizes one of aspects of time-management. Students of "Winter College of Progressive Youth» were offered to express their consent/disagreement with questionnaire items (indicators). There were three possible answers “agree”, “neither agree, no disagree”, and “disagree”.
In this research it was taken into accounts gender, department, and grade of students.
Method
Expected Outcomes
References
1. Andrich D. Rasch Models for Development. - London, Sage Publications, Inc., 1988. - 94 p. 2. Getting Started RUMM 2010. Rasch Unidimensional Measurement Models - Pert: RUMM Laboratory Ltd, 2001. - 87 p. 3. Kalinin S.I. Time-Management: Workshop on Management of Time (in Russian). - SPb.: Rech, 2006. -371 p. 4. Maslak A.A. Measurement of Latent Variables in Education and Other Social and Economic Systems: Theory and Practice (in Russian). - Slavyansk-on-Kuban: SGPI, 2007. - 424 p. 5. Rasch G. Probabilistic models for some intelligence and attainment tests (Expanded edition, with foreword and afterword by Benjamin D. Wright). - Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980. - 199 p. 6. Wright B.D., Masters G.N. Rating Scale Analysis. - Chicago: MESA PRESS, 1982. - 206 p.
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