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Courtney Reim – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this exploratory descriptive research was to examine what Association Montessori Internationale (AMI) certified Montessori teachers (MTs) for students ages 3-6 years in the United States reported regarding scientific observation (SO) as a disposition and as a disposition in action (DIA) to better understand MTs' application of…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Montessori Schools, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
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Neto, Joana; Neto, Félix; Furnham, Adrian – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2023
The aim of this study is to examine whether a preference for specific assessment methods in higher education is associated with personality and character strengths. Two-hundred and seventy Portuguese students completed a survey of character strengths, a Big Five personality test and their preference for each of six higher education assessment…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Student Attitudes, Preferences, Evaluation Methods
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Layher, Evan; Dixit, Anjali; Miller, Michael B. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2020
Individuals should "strategically" shift decision criteria when there are disproportionate likelihoods or consequences for falsely identifying versus missing target items. Despite being explicitly aware of the advantages for criterion shifting, people on "average" do not shift extremely, leading many theories to conclude that…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Individual Differences
Abigail Jo Leonard – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of this inquiry was to conduct a formative evaluation of a rural Pennsylvania school district's dispositional hiring practices. The review of literature includes disposition evaluation methods and summarizes the controversial nature of evaluating dispositions. Interviews of administrators who ask dispositional questions, and newly…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, School Districts, Rural Schools, Personnel Selection
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McKown, Clark – Journal of Character Education, 2017
Dr. Card's article provides useful and clear standards for determining what good measurement is, identifies important problems in the measurement of constructs important to character education, and provides clear guidance about measurement development. In this article, I raise 4 points that build on Dr. Card's work. First, advancing assessment in…
Descriptors: Personality, Social Development, Emotional Development, Standards
McKown, Clark – Grantee Submission, 2017
Dr. Card's article provides useful and clear standards for determining what good measurement is, identifies important problems in the measurement of constructs important to character education, and provides clear guidance about measurement development. In this article, I raise 4 points that build on Dr. Card's work. First, advancing assessment in…
Descriptors: Personality, Social Development, Emotional Development, Standards
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Urban, Jennifer Brown; Trochim, William M. – Journal of Character Education, 2017
This article presents how character development practitioners, researchers, and funders might think about evaluation, how evaluation fits into their work, and what needs to happen in order to sustain evaluative practices. A broader view of evaluation is presented whereby evaluation is not just seen as something that is applied at a program level,…
Descriptors: Personality, Systems Approach, Evaluation Methods, Portfolios (Background Materials)
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Paz, Jennica; Kim, Eui Kyung; Dowdy, Erin; Furlong, Michael J.; Hinton, Tameisha; Piqueras, José A.; Rodríguez-Jiménez, Tíscar; Marzo, Juan C.; Coates, Susan – Grantee Submission, 2020
The assessment of psychosocial strengths in children and adolescents has predominately focused on the measurement of single traits and constructs, such as grit (Christopoulou, Lakioti, Pezirkianidis, Karakasidou, & Stalikas, 2018), optimism (Oberle, Guhn, Gadermann, Thomson, & Schonert-Reichl, 2018), hope (Pedrotti, 2018), and gratitude…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Student Characteristics, Screening Tests, Holistic Approach