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Shah, Harshini; Niland, Katherine; Kharsa, Miranda; Caronongan, Pia; Moiduddin, Emily – US Department of Health and Human Services, 2020
In 2017, the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) in the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) funded Mathematica to conduct the Infant and Toddler Teacher and Caregiver Competencies (ITTCC) project. The project aims to examine existing efforts across states, institutions of higher education, professional organizations, and…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Caregivers, Preschool Teachers
Conners, C. Keith – Journal of Children in Contemporary Society, 1986
A comprehensive assessment of children with Attention Deficit Disorder should include use of teacher rating scales. Rater biases, positive and negative halo effects, practice effects, and other problems are outweighed by the ease of use, low cost, and reasonable reliability and validity of teacher rating scales. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Elementary Secondary Education, Psychological Evaluation, Rating Scales
Greenwood, L. K.; Morton, L. L. – B. C. Journal of Special Education, 1989
Evaluation of a checklist by teachers to rate 60 secondary level learning-disabled and nondisabled students for mainstream competencies found no overall mean group differences and no inter-rater reliability, though ratings on work habits did predict course grades for all three groups (fully mainstreamed, partially mainstreamed, and nondisabled).…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Grades (Scholastic), Learning Disabilities, Mainstreaming
Gottfredson, Denise C.; And Others – 1986
In order to collect the necessary information on various practices and devices used in school climate assessment, 22 of the 39 school improvement projects mentioned in the Miles and Kaufman directory of effective schools programs were selected for a survey. A questionnaire was used to collect the primary data. Each program was asked for copies of…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Measurement Techniques
Biggs, John B. – 1987
This manual describes the theory behind the Learning Process Questionnaire (LPQ) used in Australia and defines what the subscale and scale scores mean. The LPQ is a 36-item self-report questionnaire that yields scores on three basic motives for learning and three learning strategies, and on the approaches to learning that are formed by these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Motivation, Learning Processes, Learning Strategies
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Shaw, Stephanie; Coggins, Truman E. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1991
This study, involving five experienced and trained speech language pathologists, categorized the elicited imitations of five profoundly and five severely prelingually hearing-impaired subjects using the Phonetic Level Evaluation. Failure to obtain acceptably high levels of reliability suggests that this measure may not yet be an accurate and…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Articulation (Speech), Congenital Impairments, Deafness
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Planning Services Branch. – 1983
The School Subjects Attitude Scales is an instrument for measuring students' attitudes toward school subjects for grades 5-12. Twenty-four bipolar word pairs are used with evaluation, usefulness, and difficulty scales. The word pairs were selected on the basis of discussions and analysis of trial forms. Results can be used in program evaluation…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Rating Scales
Biggs, John B. – 1987
This manual describes the theory behind the Study Process Questionnaire (SPQ) and explains what the subscale and scale scores mean. The SPQ is a 42-item self-report questionnaire used in Australia to assess the extent to which a tertiary student at a college or university endorses different approaches to learning and the motives and strategies…
Descriptors: College Students, Foreign Countries, Learning Motivation, Learning Processes
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Andrews, Jac; Janzen, Henry – Psychology in the Schools, 1988
Presents globally oriented scoring sheet, reference guide, and rating scale for facilitating clinical hypotheses from children's Kinetic School Drawings (KSDs) and further empirical evaluations of KSD technique. Provides information on instrument construction and preliminary findings in terms of procedures' reliability and discriminant validity.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries, Freehand Drawing
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Griffin, Patrick E. – Australian Journal of Education, 1990
The paper outlines the development of a scale describing the progression of literacy skills, based on similar scales used in second-language acquisition. The scale is shown to have high reliability and appropriate criterion validity. Use of the scale to analyze student reading development is illustrated. Appended are descriptions of the scale's…
Descriptors: Concurrent Validity, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Literacy
Grosenick, J. K.; And Others – 1985
The document consists of a 125-item evaluation instrument for use in assessing the overall plan and quality of programs in the area of serious emotional disturbance (SED) or behavior disorders. Questions are organized according to the following nine categories (based on identified components of a well-designed SED program): (1) respondent and…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Delivery Systems, Emotional Disturbances, Evaluation Methods
High/Scope Educational Research Foundation, Ypsilanti, MI. – 1998
The Preschool Version of the High/Scope Program Quality Assessment (PQA) is a ratings instrument for evaluating the quality of early childhood programs and identifying staff training needs. The assessment was developed for use in all center-based preschool and child care settings, not just those using the High/Scope educational approach. This…
Descriptors: Adult Child Relationship, Curriculum Development, Day Care Centers, Educational Administration