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Keengwe, Jared, Ed.; Onchwari, Grace, Ed. – IGI Global, 2019
Standardized tests have been selected as a key assessment factor in expanding the academic achievement of the national student population. However, these tests position immigrant students at the risk of academic failure, leading education experts to search for new strategies and teaching models. The "Handbook of Research on Assessment…
Descriptors: Guides, Immigrants, Refugees, Land Settlement
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Pinxten, Maarten; De Fraine, Bieke; Van Damme, Jan; D'Haenens, Ellen – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2010
Background: The relation between academic self-concept and achievement has been examined in a large number of studies. The majority of these studies have found evidence for a reciprocal effects model. However, there is an ongoing debate on how students' achievement should be measured and whether the type of achievement indicator (grades, tests,…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Retention (Psychology)
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Sternberg, Robert J. – Educational Researcher, 2007
In the United States as well as in much of the developed world, many of us tend to take for granted that children who do well on teacher-made and standardized tests are intelligent. But different cultures have different views of intelligence, so which children are considered intelligent may vary from one culture to another. Moreover, the acts that…
Descriptors: Multiple Intelligences, Standardized Tests, Cultural Context, Intelligence
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Briggs, Derek C. – Applied Measurement in Education, 2008
This article illustrates the use of an explanatory item response modeling (EIRM) approach in the context of measuring group differences in science achievement. The distinction between item response models and EIRMs, recently elaborated by De Boeck and Wilson (2004), is presented within the statistical framework of generalized linear mixed models.…
Descriptors: Science Achievement, Science Tests, Measurement, Error of Measurement
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Amrein-Beardsley, Audrey – Educational Researcher, 2008
Value-added models help to evaluate the knowledge that school districts, schools, and teachers add to student learning as students progress through school. In this article, the well-known Education Value-Added Assessment System (EVAAS) is examined. The author presents a practical investigation of the methodological issues associated with the…
Descriptors: Validity, School Districts, Academic Achievement, Measurement Techniques
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Simmons, Joyce Nesker; Davidson, Iain F. W. K. – B.C. Journal of Special Education, 1992
Two cases are reported to illustrate the ways in which standardized tests fail blind children. Other assessment devices are recommended to allow a child to demonstrate how he or she makes sense of the world, such as observational techniques, interviews, structured teaching, exploration, and play. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Blindness, Case Studies, Early Childhood Education, Evaluation Methods
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Downing, June; Perino, Daniel M. – Mental Retardation, 1992
Teachers and support personnel (n=38) were asked to use an eight-item Likert-type survey to rate one of three assessment packages for students with severe to profound multiple disabilities: standardized, functional-ecological, and a combined package. The functional-ecological approach was perceived to be most beneficial for educational…
Descriptors: Ecological Factors, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Multiple Disabilities
Thackrey, Michael – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1991
Principal components analysis of standardization sample data for the Comprehensive Test of Adaptive Behavior, involving 6,647 persons with mental retardation, found that a single factor accounted for 86 percent of the variance in category scores. Use of the Total Score and idiographic item clusters is psychometrically preferable to use of category…
Descriptors: Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Evaluation Methods, Factor Analysis, Mental Retardation
Manning, Gary; And Others – 1985
This study investigated the relationship between and among the results of three types of reading assessments in the first grade: a standardized reading test (the Stanford Achievement Tests); an informal reading inventory (the Classroom Reading Inventory); and teacher judgment of student rank in reading achievement. The study included 165 first…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Grade 1, Informal Reading Inventories, Primary Education
Mislevy, Robert J.; Almond, Russell G.; Lukas, Janice F. – US Department of Education, 2004
Evidence-centered assessment design (ECD) is an approach to constructing educational assessments in terms of evidentiary arguments. This paper provides an introduction to the basic ideas of ECD, including some of the terminology and models that have been developed to implement the approach. In particular, it presents the high-level models of …
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Concept Formation, Thinking Skills
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Myers, Carl L.; And Others – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 1996
Forty children under three years of age referred for early childhood special education evaluation were randomly assigned to either a multidisciplinary, standardized assessment or a transdisciplinary, play-based assessment. Play-based assessments took less time to complete, resulted in favorable parent and staff perceptions, provided useful…
Descriptors: Child Development, Disabilities, Evaluation Methods, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Hull, T.; Mason, H. – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1993
This article discusses issues and difficulties encountered in efforts at the University of Birmingham (England) to standardize a new psychometric assessment tool, a tactile speed-of-information-processing test for children with blindness. The problem of defining the population on which the test is standardized is seen as particularly difficult.…
Descriptors: Blindness, Cognitive Processes, Evaluation Methods, Intelligence Tests
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Scott, Cheryl M.; Stokes, Sharon L. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1995
This article identifies sources of information about syntactic ability of school-age children and adolescents from language samples (spoken and written) and standardized language tests. Language samples yield information on sentence length, clause density, and use of higher level discourse-motivated structures. Syntactic subtests from three…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
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Kluever, Raymond C.; Green, Kathy E. – Roeper Review, 1990
Composite scores for 51 gifted children (ages 3-12) on the Stanford-Binet LM were found to be significantly higher than scores on the Stanford-Binet 4th Edition. Correlations between the LM total and 4th Edition area scores were significant. Results suggest that the 4th Edition composite score cut-off value for assessing giftedness may require…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Eligibility
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Bausell, R. Barker – Evaluation and the Health Professions, 1992
To help evaluators find the right measurement instrument, this annotated bibliography lists 46 compendia listing, reviewing, or presenting instruments devoted to (1) psychological/behavioral assessment; (2) mental health; (3) physical health; (4) sociological scales; (5) attitudinal scales; (6) observational measures; (7) standardized tests; and…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Attitude Measures, Clinical Diagnosis, Evaluation Methods
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