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Forzani, Elena; Leu, Donald J.; Yujia Li, Eva; Rhoads, Christopher; Guthrie, John T.; McCoach, Betsy – Reading Research Quarterly, 2021
Motivation for reading is important to comprehension and has been studied extensively in offline reading contexts. However, little is known about the role of motivation in online reading, a new and increasingly important context for reading, largely because of a lack of valid and reliable instruments to estimate a student's motivation for online…
Descriptors: Reading Motivation, Grade 7, Student Motivation, Electronic Publishing
Forzani, Elena; Leu, Donald J.; Li, Eva Yujia; Rhoads, Christopher; Guthrie, John T.; McCoach, Betsy – Grantee Submission, 2020
Motivation for reading is important to comprehension and has been studied extensively in offline reading contexts. However, we know little about the role of motivation in online reading, a new and increasingly important context for reading. This is largely because we lack valid and reliable instruments to estimate a student's motivation for online…
Descriptors: Reading Motivation, Grade 7, Student Motivation, Electronic Publishing
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Conoyer, Sarah J.; Ford, Jeremy W.; Smith, R. Alex; Mason, Erica N.; Lembke, Erica S.; Hosp, John L. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2019
This replication study examined the alternate form reliability, criterion validity, and predictive utility of two curriculum-based measurement (CBM) tools in science, Vocabulary-Matching (VM) and Statement Verification for Science (SV-S), for the purpose of screening. In all, 205 seventh-grade students from four middle schools were given alternate…
Descriptors: Curriculum Based Assessment, Screening Tests, Middle School Students, Secondary School Science
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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
Merrigan, Teresa E. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of the current study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of alternative approaches to administering and scoring curriculum-based measurement for written expression. Specifically, three response durations (3, 5, and 7 minutes) and six score types (total words written, words spelled correctly, percent of words spelled correctly,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Based Assessment, Testing, Scoring, Writing Tests
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Gao, Zan; Liu, Yuanlong; Lodewyk, Ken; Zhang, Tao; Kosma, Maria – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2011
The purpose of this study was to examine the reliability and validity of outcome likelihood, outcome value, and outcome expectancy using data collected from students in secondary school physical education classes. Dependent measures were examined for construct, concurrent, and predictive validity, as well as internal and temporal reliability. The…
Descriptors: Evidence, Physical Education, Student Attitudes, Predictive Validity
Mazza, Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The No Child Left Behind Act is a mandate from the federal government for education to increase student performance and school accountability. As a result of this mandate, many states have issued the use of high-stakes standardized tests as a means of monitoring schools' accountability. New York State administers the English Language Arts (ELA)…
Descriptors: Intervention, Federal Legislation, Language Arts, Standardized Tests
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Foegen, Anne – Remedial and Special Education, 2008
This study investigated the technical features of six potential progress-monitoring measures in mathematics appropriate for use at the middle school level, including two commercially available measures for sixth-grade mathematics, two measures used in previous middle school studies, and two new measures of numeracy concepts. Five hundred…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Standardized Tests, Predictive Validity, Scores