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Public(s), education and education policy: values, attitudes, reasoning and experience.
The report contains findings from quantitative and qualitative research on the views of the general population, the population of parents of children aged 6 to 20, and the professional community, teachers and principals, on education and education policies. The main themes are inequalities in education, the content of education, parental participation and response, and the teaching profession.…
The role of empathy in support for inclusive education
According to UNESCO, educating all children in the same classrooms, with adequate support and taking into consideration their different needs, provides benefits for everyone. However, public opinion about inclusive education is rarely uniform and often unsupportive. While public support for placing pupils with special needs in regular classes is crucial for both legislation and the implementation of effective inclusive practices, knowledge about the predictors of this support is limited. Additionally, we know …
Topics: Value Orientations, Education
Developing critical thinking test for adolescents: A validity and reliability study from the Czech Republic
This article presents a comprehensive validation study of a Critical Thinking Test (CTT) conducted among Czech adolescents in 2023. It offers valuable insights into the psychometric properties, correlations, and predictors associated with analytical, evaluative and inferential abilities of critical thinking. While there are tools available for measuring critical thinking, they tend to be lengthy and inaccessible in the Czech language. Our study seeks to address this gap by developing a concise and effective to…
Topics: Education
Validation and psychometric evaluation of the Short Warwick‑Edinburgh Mental Well‑Being Scale (SWEMWBS) among Czech adolescents using Item Response Theory
Background: The topic of adolescent mental health is currently a subject of much debate due to the increasing prevalence of mental health problems among this age group. Therefore, it is crucial to have high-quality and validated mental well-being measurement tools. While such tools do exist, they are often not tailored specifically to adolescents and are not available in Czech language. The aim of this study is to validate and test the Czech version of the Short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale (SWEMW…
Výzkumná zpráva z první vlny sběru dat (České panelové šetření středoškoláků)
Na podzim školního roku 2023/24 byla realizována první vlna sběru dat mezi žáky a žákyněmi prvních ročníků středních škol a odpovídajících ročníků víceletých gymnázií. Celkem se do výzkumu zapojilo 249 škol a více než 24 000 žáků a žákyň z celé České republiky. Tato výzkumná zpráva představuje základní informace o tom, jak žáci a žákyně prvního ročníku vnímají sami sebe, jaké mají studijní aspirace, vztah ke škole a s jakou úrovní kritického myšle…
Topics: Trust/Social Cohesion, Identity, Migration and Mobility, Politics and Political Attitudes, Education
Psychometric properties and measurement invariance of the Czech version of the Temporal Satisfaction with Life Scale
The aim of this study was to validate the Temporal Satisfaction with Life Scale (TSWLS Pavot et al., 1998) in the Czech language, including the examination of its psychometric properties and measurement invariance by gender and age. The TSWLS is a 15-item instrument for measuring life satisfaction (LS) from a temporal perspective allowing the comparison of the level of life satisfaction in the past, present, and future. The analysis was based on a representative research sample (N = 427) of Czech people older …
Topics: Research Methodology, Public health
Item response theory-based psychometric analysis of the Short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale (SWEMWBS) among adolescents in the UK
Background: Middle and late adolescence is the period in a person’s life that is most vulnerable to mental health problems. To enable an evidence base that can support policies to prevent such problems, it is crucial to have good quality, reliable, and accurate measurement tools for mental well-being. One of them is the Short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale (SWEMWBS). This study aimed to test the psychometric properties of the SWEMWBS on a large sample of adolescents aged 16 to 19 from the United …
Topics: Research Methodology, Public health
Testování psychometrických vlastností a ekvivalence české verze Škály spokojenosti se životem (SWLS) pomocí metod konfirmační faktorové analýzy, teorie odpovědi na položku a bayesovského modelování
The Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) is one of the most commonly used instruments for measuring life satisfaction. The aim of this study is to test the psychometric properties of the Czech version of the SWLS using Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) and Item Response Theory (IRT) and to test its invariance between social groups in terms of gender, age, and education using Bayesian modelling on a representative sample of the Czech online population, as the scale has not yet been tested on representative data…
Topics: Research Methodology, Public health
Amount and Causes of Food Waste in Households from Perspective of Consumers – the Case Study of the Czech Republic
Food waste occurs throughout the food distribution chain, with households, i.e., consumers, accounting for the largest share of total food waste. Different methods can be used to determine how much food people waste in their households, with widely varying results. Direct measurement methods prove to be the most accurate, but due to their financial, logistical, and time-consuming nature, they are not very common, and therefore questionnaires based on subjective estimates of respondents are very often used. Thi…
Topics: Consumption
An Item Response Theory Analysis and Psychometric Properties of the Czech Version of the Satisfaction with Life Scale
The original version of the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) has been successfully tested in many studies, mainly using Classical Test Theory (CTT). Using Item Response Theory (IRT), this study examines psychometric properties of the original SWLS comprising five items, and its abbreviated versions and possible usage of a shorter response scale in a Czech data sample. IRT analysis was used to test the psychometric properties of the original SWLS, comprising five items rated on a 7-point Likert scale, and it…
Topics: Research Methodology
Veřejné mínění o vzdělávání – Sekundární analýza
This final report is the first of seven research reports produced within the project Public(s), education and education policy: values, attitudes, reasoning, and experience (short title Public opinion on education). The project aims to map the views of different publics (actors) on education policy measures, assuming that these views are linked to broader attitudes towards education and the values held by actors in relation to education. The present report first introduces its objectives, followed by a review …
Topics: Public Opinion, Education
Nový přístup v testování ekvivalence na příkladu měření subjektivního blahobytu
Survey-based measures of subjective well-being are increasingly often analyzed cross-culturally. However, international comparison of these measures requires measurement invariance. Therefore, the major goal of this study was to investigate the cross-country comparability of the 5-item subjective well-being scales used in the International Social Survey Programme (2011, 2017). This study applied both the traditional exact and the more recent Bayesian approximate approach to assessed whether the subjective well…
Topics: Research Methodology
Publication Type: Peer-reviewed article
