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Goulet, Julie; Archambault, Isabelle; Morizot, Julien; Olivier, Elizabeth; Tardif-Grenier, Kristel – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2023
Studies highlighting the importance of parental involvement in schooling have multiplied over the past years. However, well-validated tools assessing the different dimensions of parental involvement are lacking, especially when addressing young students' perception of their parents' involvement. This study offers a preliminary validation of the…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Parent Participation, Questionnaires, Student Attitudes
Pentimonti, Jill M.; Bowles, Ryan P.; Zucker, Tricia A.; Tambyraja, Sherine R.; Justice, Laura M. – Grantee Submission, 2021
Measuring the quality of classroom-based interactive shared book reading within the early childhood classroom represents a specific dimension of teacher-child interactions that is of great interest to researchers. This interest reflects decades of research demonstrating the benefit of reading to young children in both the home and the classroom.…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Test Construction, Construct Validity, Predictive Validity
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Stutz, Franziska; Schaffner, Ellen; Schiefele, Ulrich – Journal of Research in Reading, 2017
In order to initiate more research on the role of reading motivation during the initial stages of learning to comprehend texts, we developed the "Reading Motivation Questionnaire for Elementary Students" (RMQ-E). The sample comprised 1497 elementary students in Grades 1-3. By means of exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, three…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Reading Motivation, Elementary School Students, Test Validity
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Sun, Binghai; Shao, YuTing; Richardson, Michael J.; Weng, Yuanyuan; Shen, Jiliang – Educational Psychology, 2017
The present research, comprised of two studies, examines the features and factor structure of the Teacher Caring Questionnaire, a measure of teacher caring developed in the Zhejiang province of China. In the first study, features of teacher caring were derived from open-ended teacher and student descriptions of caring teacher behaviour. A second…
Descriptors: Caring, Teacher Behavior, Teacher Student Relationship, Questionnaires
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Alkharusi, Hussain – International Journal of Instruction, 2015
A classroom assessment environment is a classroom context experienced by students as the teacher determines assessment purposes, develops assessment tasks, defines assessment criteria and standards, provides feedback, and monitors outcomes (Brookhart, 1997). It is usually a group experience varying from class to class dependent upon the teacher's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Classroom Environment, Student Evaluation, Psychometrics
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Köksal, Mustafa Serdar – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2016
The purposes of this study were to develop a culture specific critical thinking ability test for 6, 7, and 8. grade students in Turkey and to use it as an assessment instrument for giftedness. For these purposes, item pool involving 22 items was formed by writing items focusing on the current and common events presented in (Turkish) media from…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Diagnostic Tests, Gifted, Academic Ability
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Park, Yujeong; Benedict, Amber E.; Brownell, Mary T. – Exceptionality, 2014
The factor structure of the CORE Phonics Survey was analyzed using a sample of 165 students in upper elementary school with specific learning disabilities. Confirmatory factor analysis was used to identify the hypothesized constructs of the CORE Phonics Survey and predictive validity of the CORE Phonics Survey to predict students' success in word…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Factor Analysis, Phonics, Reading Skills
Caldarella, Paul; Larsen, Ross A. A.; Williams, Leslie; Wehby, Joseph H.; Wills, Howard; Kamps, Debra – Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 2017
Numerous well-validated academic progress monitoring tools are used in schools, but there are fewer behavioral progress monitoring measures available. Some brief behavior rating scales have been shown to be effective in monitoring students' progress, but most focus only on students' social skills and do not address critical academic-related…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Interpersonal Competence, Classroom Environment, Elementary Schools
Caldarella, Paul; Larsen, Ross A. A.; Williams, Leslie; Wehby, Joseph H.; Wills, Howard P.; Kamps, Debra M. – Grantee Submission, 2017
Numerous well validated academic progress monitoring tools are used in schools, but there are fewer behavioral progress monitoring measures available. Some brief behavior rating scales have been shown to be effective in monitoring students' progress, but most focus only on students' social skills and do not address critical academic-related…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Interpersonal Competence, Classroom Environment, Elementary Schools
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Betts, Joseph; Pickart, Mary; Heistad, Dave – School Psychology Quarterly, 2011
Previous research has provided evidence for the utility of the Minneapolis Kindergarten Assessment (MKA), which is a measure of early literacy and numeracy skills. The present research was undertaken to replicate previous factorial results and evaluate the relative strength of an alternative parameterization of the measurement model, the bifactor…
Descriptors: Evidence, Models, Numeracy, Predictive Validity
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Cameron, Claire E.; Chen, Wei-Bing; Blodgett, Julia; Cottone, Elizabeth A.; Mashburn, Andrew J.; Brock, Laura L.; Grissmer, David – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2012
This study examined psychometric properties of the Motor Skills Rating Scale (MSRS), a questionnaire designed for classroom teachers of children in early elementary school. Items were developed with the guidance of two occupational therapists, and factor structure was examined with an exploratory factor analysis (EFA). The resulting model showed…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Mathematics Achievement, Rating Scales, Teachers