Valuating Psychometric Procedures in Arab Educational Research Reports

Abstract

The current research conducted to valuate psychological measurement procedures in a sample of research reports published in refereed Arab educational journals. To achieve this goal, an assessment card was constructed and consisted of )95( items, each item represents a psychometric procedure, and its validity and reliability were verified by appropriate methods. Then it was used to valuate )147( research tools in )95( research published in four educational journals in 2019. The results showed that the most used method for verifying tools validity is the validity based on arbitration and the least used is criterion-based method and age differentiation method. The Cronbach alpha coefficient method was the most commonly used method for verifying tool reliability, while the equivelant forms method was the least commonly. The percentage of achieving psychometric procedures in researches ranged in general between )0 - 100%(, and the percentage of common errors in applying psychometric procedures in educational research reports in general was )62.11%(.