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Louise Lynch; Mary McCarron; Philip McCallion; Eilish Burke – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2025
Background: The positive impact of physical activity on health is widely known. A comparison between activPAL objective measures and International Physical Activity Questionnaire short form (IPAQ-SF) self-reported activity levels was completed with older adults with intellectual disability. Understanding differences between the two methodologies…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Questionnaires, Older Adults, Intellectual Disability
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Kentaro Fukushima; Nao Uchida; Kensuke Okada – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2025
Diagnostic tests are typically administered in a multiple-choice (MC) format due to their advantages of objectivity and time efficiency. The MC-deterministic input, noisy "and" gate (DINA) family of models, a representative class of cognitive diagnostic models for MC items, efficiently and parsimoniously estimates the mastery profiles of…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Cognitive Measurement, Multiple Choice Tests, Educational Assessment
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Johnson S. Khor; Sungkyung Linda Kim – Discover Education, 2025
Objective-Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) are a valuable source of assessment for students' practical clinical and professional skills throughout their medical careers due to the OSCEs' capability to test multiple competencies in a standardized manner. Over the years, OSCEs have increasingly been integrated across medical programs to…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Medical Education, Objective Tests, Clinical Experience
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Hengzhi Hu; Nur Ehsan Mohd Said; Harwati Hashim – SAGE Open, 2025
Foreign language (L2) learners' speaking proficiency is often quantified using two dimensions: intuitive human ratings and analytical, linguistic complexity, accuracy, and fluency (CAF) indices. While previous research and assessment practices have predominantly focused on either the subjective approach to L2 speaking or the objective one, it is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Speech Tests, English (Second Language), Accuracy
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Jie Qin; Dilin Liu – Applied Linguistics, 2025
In response to calls for an assessment tool that provides a separate performance dimension from the linguistic quality-oriented measures of complexity, accuracy, and fluency (CAF) and guided by systemic functional linguistic (SFL) theories, this study introduces a set of fine-grained objective measures of communication/content/function…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Language Tests, Linguistic Theory
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Liset Rouweler; Ben Maassen; Sanne Oud; Barry de Groot; Wim Tops – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2025
Reading is one of the most important skills in higher education. Various students show problems with reading, which can lead to problems with text decoding, reading comprehension, or both. In this study, we investigate the L1 (Dutch) and L2 (English) reading comprehension performance of students with and without dyslexia. Participants were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Native Language, Second Languages, Reading Comprehension