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Brännström, Karl Jonas; Karjalainen, Suvi; Sahlén, Birgitta; Andersson, Ketty; Lyberg-Åhlander, Viveka; Christensson, Jonas – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2022
The present study reports on the development of a questionnaire that evaluates children's experiences of their physical classroom environment, activities and interactions. It also explores the psychometric properties of the questionnaire and how acoustical characteristics of the classroom, class size and student characteristics (age, sex and…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Questionnaires, Classroom Environment, Learning Activities
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Leal, Johanna P. – Latin American Journal of Content and Language Integrated Learning, 2016
On-going bilingual programs without regard to needs analysis; little research on the actual effects of CLIL in Colombia and vague awareness or knowledge about the necessary considerations for effective CLIL programs, underpin the need to address a particular issue of curriculum as it is summative assessment. This small scale study takes place in a…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency
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Rogers, W. Todd; Lin, Jie; Rinaldi, Christia M. – Applied Measurement in Education, 2011
The evidence gathered in the present study supports the use of the simultaneous development of test items for different languages. The simultaneous approach used in the present study involved writing an item in one language (e.g., French) and, before moving to the development of a second item, translating the item into the second language (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Test Items, Item Analysis, Achievement Tests, French
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Francis, David J.; Snow, Catherine E.; August, Diane; Carlson, Coleen D.; Miller, Jon; Iglesias, Aquiles – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2006
This study compares 2 measures of reading comprehension: (a) the Woodcock-Johnson Passage Comprehension test, a standard in reading research, and (b) the Diagnostic Assessment of Reading Comprehension (DARC), an innovative measure. Data from 192 Grade 3 Spanish-speaking English language learners (ELLs) were used to fit a series of latent variable…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Grade 3, Test Validity