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Danielle R. Blazek; Jason T. Siegel – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2024
Social scientists have long agreed that satisficing behavior increases error and reduces the validity of survey data. There have been numerous reviews on detecting satisficing behavior, but preventing this behavior has received less attention. The current narrative review provides empirically supported guidance on preventing satisficing by…
Descriptors: Response Style (Tests), Responses, Reaction Time, Test Interpretation
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Edward Karl Schultz; Emily Smith; Stephanie Zamora-Robles – Journal of the American Academy of Special Education Professionals, 2024
Evaluating students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds (i.e., emergent bilinguals) presents challenges to evaluation teams, as distinguishing between a language disorder and typical second language development is more complex. The skills and knowledge required to do this task often exceed the level of training that evaluators…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Bilingualism, Bilingual Students, Learning Disabilities
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Kane, Michael T. – Educational Researcher, 2008
Lissitz and Samuelsen (2007) have proposed an operational definition of "validity" that shifts many of the questions traditionally considered under validity to a separate category associated with the utility of test use. Operational definitions support inferences about how well people perform some kind of task or how they respond to some kind of…
Descriptors: Test Use, Definitions, Validity, Classification