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Testing a Multi-Stage Screening System: Predicting Performance on Australia's National Achievement Test Using Teachers' Ratings of Academic and Social Behaviors
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Kettler, Ryan J.; Elliott, Stephen N.; Davies, Michael; Griffin, Patrick – School Psychology International, 2012
This study addresses the predictive validity of results from a screening system of academic enablers, with a sample of Australian elementary school students, when the criterion variable is end-of-year achievement. The investigation included (a) comparing the predictive validity of a brief criterion-referenced nomination system with more…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Screening Tests, Predictive Validity
A Brief Broadband System for Screening Children at Risk for Academic Difficulties and Poor Achievement Test Performance: Validity Evidence and Applications to Practice
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Kettler, Ryan J.; Elliott, Stephen N. – Journal of Applied School Psychology, 2010
The Brief Academic Competence Evaluation Screening System (BACESS) is a broadband universal screening instrument with three increasingly stringent phases for the identification of children at risk for academic and related behavior difficulties. The development of the BACESS involved two samples of students: K-5 students (n = 827) from the…
Descriptors: Test Results, Intervention, Academic Achievement, Predictor Variables
Modifying Achievement Test Items: A Theory-Guided and Data-Based Approach for Better Measurement of What Students with Disabilities Know
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Kettler, Ryan J.; Elliott, Stephen N.; Beddow, Peter A. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2009
Federal regulations allow up to 2% of the student population of a state to achieve proficiency for adequate yearly progress by taking an alternate assessment based on modified academic achievement standards (AA-MAS). Such tests are likely to be easier, but as long as a test is considered a valid measure of grade level content, it is allowable as…
Descriptors: Test Items, Alternative Assessment, Academic Achievement, Test Validity
Structured Teacher Ratings to Identify Students in Need of Academic Assistance: Validation of the Brief Academic Competence Evaluation Screening System
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Kettler, Ryan J.; Elliott, Stephen N.; Albers, Craig A. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2008
The Brief Academic Competence Evaluation Screening System (BACESS) is a multiphase universal screening measure designed to assist educators in the identification of students who are likely to experience learning difficulties in elementary school. This study evaluated the reliability and validity of the measure for this purpose. The BACESS was used…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Learning Problems, Screening Tests, Validity
Building Validity Evidence for Scores on a State-Wide Alternate Assessment: A Contrasting Groups, Multimethod Approach
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Elliott, Stephen N.; Compton, Elizabeth; Roach, Andrew T. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2007
The relationships between ratings on the Idaho Alternate Assessment (IAA) for 116 students with significant disabilities and corresponding ratings for the same students on two norm-referenced teacher rating scales were examined to gain evidence about the validity of resulting IAA scores. To contextualize these findings, another group of 54…
Descriptors: Inferences, Disabilities, Rating Scales, Eligibility
Effects and Perceived Consequences of Using Read-Aloud and Teacher-Recommended Testing Accommodations on a Reading Achievement Test
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McKevitt, Brian C.; Elliott, Stephen N. – School Psychology Review, 2003
This investigation examined the effects and consequences of using testing accommodations, including reading aloud test content, with a group of eighth-grade students (N = 79) on a standardized reading test. Research questions pertaining to the effects of accommodations on reading test scores and consequences of testing on teacher and student…
Descriptors: Research Design, Testing Accommodations, Test Content, Student Attitudes