A cross-cultural validation study of the Questionnaire of Educational and Learning Capital (QELC) in China, Germany and Turkey

Authors

Anamaria Vladut, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Qian Liu, Chinese Academy Of Sciences
Marilena Z. Leana-Tascila, Istanbul University
Wilma Vialle, University of WollongongFollow
Albert Ziegler, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

RIS ID

103057

Publication Details

Vladut, A., Liu, Q., Leana-Tascila, M. Z., Vialle, W. & Ziegler, A. (2013). A cross-cultural validation study of the Questionnaire of Educational and Learning Capital (QELC) in China, Germany and Turkey. Psychological Test and Assessment Modeling, 55 (4), 462-478.

Abstract

Unlike traditional person-centered models of giftedness, the Actiotope Model of Giftedness focuses on the person-environment interactions. It postulates that successful learning requires necessary resources, termed educational and learning capital, located both in the environment and the individual. The Questionnaire of Educational and Learning Capital (QELC) is introduced. The results of a validation study with students from China, Turkey and Germany is reported which shows that the QELC has satisfactory psychometric properties as well as construct and concurrent validity.