Q-sort


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Q-sort

n
(Statistics) a psychological test requiring subjects to sort items relative to one another along a dimension such as "agree"/"disagree" for analysis by Q-methodological statistics
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Since this study was conducted to investigate student perceptions of success, we used a descriptive methodology called Q-Sort because it characterizes opinions through comparative rank ordering (Portney & Watkins, 2015).
Eight chapters are: becoming color-conscious; addressing race and racism in early childhood; the diversity teacher belief Q-sort; ethnicity, self-regulation, and academics in preschool; addressing classism in early childhood education; maltreatment in early childhood and the roles of early childhood educators; is he a girl?; trauma and young children.
In Study 2, we used the results of Study 1 to design a Q-sort activity to explore how particular profiles of students respond to and engage with a literacy intervention in social studies.
Thus, the use of Q-methodology could allow for a subjective examination of self- efficacy by which both the task and domain analyzed are evident to the person completing the Q-sort.
Using an innovative research design that utilizes a Q-sort to break down educators' and educational stakeholders' responses to questions about civics, the authors were able to develop an interesting framework for how civics educators might contextualize, and thus teach, concepts of civic knowledge and participation.
Fathers' sensitivity and perceptions of their role were assessed using Q-sort methodology.
Using narrative story-stem tasks with resulting narratives analyzed via a modified version of the Attachment Story Completion Task Q-Sort, the authors sought to determine the extent to which 97 Mexican-heritage children in an urban area in the western United States portrayed similar representations of the child-mother and child-teacher attachment relationships, and determine how teachers' perceptions of their relationships with these children related to the child's representation of the attachment relationship.
Most studies looking at attachment have used either the Strange Situation or the Attachment Q-Sort (AQS) assessments to categorize the attachment status of children into secure or insecure classifications.