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Tugba Uygun; Pinar Guner; Irfan Simsek – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2024
This study was conducted to reveal potential sources of students' difficulty and misconceptions about geometrical concepts with the help of eye tracking. In this study, the students' geometrical misconceptions were explored by answering the questions on the geometry test prepared based on the literature and test-taking processes and represented…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Geometric Concepts, Mathematics Instruction, Misconceptions
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Kosh, Audra E. – Journal of Applied Testing Technology, 2021
In recent years, Automatic Item Generation (AIG) has increasingly shifted from theoretical research to operational implementation, a shift raising some unforeseen practical challenges. Specifically, generating high-quality answer choices presents several challenges such as ensuring that answer choices blend in nicely together for all possible item…
Descriptors: Test Items, Multiple Choice Tests, Decision Making, Test Construction
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Congning Ni; Bhashithe Abeysinghe; Juanita Hicks – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2025
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), often referred to as The Nation's Report Card, offers a window into the state of U.S. K-12 education system. Since 2017, NAEP has transitioned to digital assessments, opening new research opportunities that were previously impossible. Process data tracks students' interactions with the…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Multiple Choice Tests, Behavior Change, National Competency Tests
Weiling Li; Anabil Munshi; Catherine Oberle; Aaron Butler; Amy J. Dray – Online Submission, 2024
Edmentum offers a personalized learning platform called Exact Path. Over the past five years, about 56 schools and districts in Virginia have implemented the program. This quasiexperimental study, designed to meet ESSA Tier 2 evidence and What Works Clearinghouse standards with reservations, aimed to investigate the efficacy of Exact Path in…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Student Diversity, Outcomes of Education, Educational Improvement
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Huang, Xin; Lin, Dan; Yang, Yiming; Xu, Yuhang; Chen, Qingrong; Tanenhaus, Michael K. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2021
While recent studies find that contextual diversity (CD) is a better determinant of visual word recognition than token frequency, there is a dearth of work comparing contextual diversity and token frequency in developing readers. In two sets of character and lexical decision experiments we examined token frequency and contextual diversity effects…
Descriptors: Orthographic Symbols, Word Recognition, Context Effect, Word Frequency
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Alt, Mary; Arizmendi, Genesis Dominique; Gray, Shelley; Hogan, Tiffany Patrice; Green, Samuel; Cowan, Nelson – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: We compared novel word learning in 2nd-grade children with typical development who were Spanish-English bilinguals to English monolinguals to understand word learning in bilingual children. Method: Children (monolinguals n = 167, bilinguals n = 76) engaged in 5 computer-based tasks that assessed word learning in 6 different contexts. The…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Monolingualism, Bilingualism, Spanish
Peters, Joshua A. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
There is a lack of knowledge in whether there is a difference in results for students on paper and pencil high stakes assessments and computer-based high stakes assessments when considering race and/or free and reduced lunch status. The purpose of this study was to add new knowledge to this field of study by determining whether there is a…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Testing, Lunch Programs, High Stakes Tests
Sprague, Jeffrey; Pennefather, Jordan; Marquez, Jessie; Yeaton, Pamela; Marquez, Brion – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2011
This session will describe the social validity, usability and intent to use of an interactive, state-of-the-art, professional development program based on the Response to Intervention (RtI) approach and its core components (e.g., problem-solving strategy; three tiers of intervention service delivery with universal, selected and intensive…
Descriptors: Validity, Elementary School Teachers, Intention, Usability
Nunes, Miguel Baptista, Ed.; McPherson, Maggie, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2015
These proceedings contain the papers of the International Conference e-Learning 2015, which was organised by the International Association for Development of the Information and Society and is part of the Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, July 21-24, 2015). The e-Learning 2015…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Failure, Electronic Learning, Success