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Yufan Zhao; Vahid Aryadoust – Language Testing, 2025
This study examined the semantic features of the simulated mini-lectures in the listening sections of the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) and the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) based on automatized semantic analysis to explore the content validity of the two tests. Two study corpora were utilized, the IELTS…
Descriptors: Semantics, Computational Linguistics, Academic Language, Second Language Learning
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Madsen, Esben Elholm; Elbe, Anne-Marie; Krustrup, Peter; Larsen, Carsten Hvid; Larsen, Malte Nejst; Madsen, Mads; Hansen, Tina – Cogent Education, 2021
The trans-contextual model (TCM) offers a heuristic-based theoretical framework to understand fifth-grade Danish schoolchildren's motivation to participate in the 11 for Health in Denmark educational football concept, as well as their intention and behaviour to participate in vigorous physical activity (PA) in a leisure-time context. The…
Descriptors: Translation, Content Validity, Context Effect, Models
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Jang, Bong Gee; Protacio, Maria Selena – Reading Psychology, 2020
This cognitive interview study aims to improve the content validity of a newly developed reading motivation instrument for English learners. Previous research has shown there is a significant need for survey developers to conduct cognitive interviews to ensure that in real world settings survey respondents interpret the items as the framers…
Descriptors: Interviews, Questioning Techniques, Content Validity, Measures (Individuals)
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Estrada, Assumpta; Batanero, Carmen – International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 2020
Since probability is a new topic at the primary school level in many countries, many primary school teachers may consider themselves not well prepared or may not value the formative role of probability as a topic for their students to learn. Consequently, the assessment of teachers' attitudes using valid and reliable instruments is a preliminary…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Probability
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Grossman, Paul – Psychological Assessment, 2011
The Buddhist construct of mindfulness is a central element of mindfulness-based interventions and derives from an age-old systematic phenomenological program to investigate subjective experience. Recent enthusiasm for "mindfulness" in psychology has resulted in proliferation of self-report inventories that purport to measure mindful awareness as a…
Descriptors: Psychological Studies, Semantics, Psychologists, Buddhism
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Polat, Filiz – American Annals of the Deaf, 2006
The article present results of standardization of the Meadow-Kendall Social-Emotional Assessment Inventory for Deaf and Hearing-Impaired Students (Meadow, 1983), school-age version, for use in Turkey. The SEAI is a 59-item measure for assessing socioemotional adjustment of school-age deaf and hearing impaired students. A sample of 1,097 deaf…
Descriptors: Turkish, Deafness, Foreign Countries, Emotional Adjustment