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Harvey, Shane T.; Bimler, David; Evans, Ian M.; Kirkland, John; Pechtel, Pia – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2012
Harvey and Evans (2003) have proposed that teachers' emotional skills, as required in the classroom, can be organized into a five-dimensional model. Further research is necessary to validate this model and evaluate the importance of each dimension of teacher emotion competence for educational practice. Using a statistical method for mapping…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Educational Practices, Interpersonal Competence, Profiles
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Liu, Ou Lydia; Lee, Hee-Sun; Hofstetter, Carolyn; Linn, Marcia C. – Educational Assessment, 2008
In response to the demand for sound science assessments, this article presents the development of a latent construct called knowledge integration as an effective measure of science inquiry. Knowledge integration assessments ask students to link, distinguish, evaluate, and organize their ideas about complex scientific topics. The article focuses on…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Scoring Rubrics, Psychometrics, Concept Mapping
Stacey, Kaye; Steinle, Vicki – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2006
The basic theory of Rasch measurement applies to situations where a person has a certain level of a trait being investigated, and this level of ability is what determines (to within a measurement error) how well the person does on each item in a test. This paper responds to frequent suggestions from colleagues that the use of Rasch measurement…
Descriptors: Measurement, Error of Measurement, Item Response Theory, Construct Validity