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Abed, Eman Rasmi; Abu Awwad, Ferial Mohammad – International Education Studies, 2016
This study aims to investigate the students' learning assessment practices used by Jordanian teachers of mathematics for grades (1-6) in Amman. The sample of the study consists of (402) teachers. A questionnaire of (72) items are developed on four domains, namely: questions, homework, exams, and alternative strategies. Validity and reliability are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Evaluation, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers
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Callinan, Sarah; Cunningham, Everarda; Theiler, Stephen – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2014
Many tests used in educational settings to identify learning difficulties endeavour to pick up only the lowest performers. Yet these tests are generally developed within a Classical Test Theory (CTT) paradigm that assumes that data do not have significant skew. Rasch analysis is more tolerant of skew and was used to validate two newly developed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Tests, Item Response Theory, Elementary School Students
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Jitendra, Asha K.; Dupuis, Danielle N.; Zaslofsky, Anne F. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2014
This purpose of this study was to examine the reliability and validity of a curriculum-based measure of word problem solving (CBM-WPS) as an indicator of performance and progress in a sample of 136 third-grade students at risk for mathematics difficulties (MDs) instructed in a standards-based mathematics curriculum. Students completed the CBM-WPS…
Descriptors: Curriculum Based Assessment, Academic Standards, Word Problems (Mathematics), Problem Solving