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Babazadeh, Masiar; Negrini, Lucio – International Journal of Computer Science Education in Schools, 2022
Computational thinking (CT) is seen as a key competence of the 21st century and different countries have started to integrate it into their compulsory school curricula. However, few indications exist on how to assess CT in compulsory school. This review analyses what tools are used to assess CT in European schools and which dimensions are…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Evaluation Methods, Elementary Secondary Education
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Köhler, Carmen; Pohl, Steffi; Carstensen, Claus H. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2015
When competence tests are administered, subjects frequently omit items. These missing responses pose a threat to correctly estimating the proficiency level. Newer model-based approaches aim to take nonignorable missing data processes into account by incorporating a latent missing propensity into the measurement model. Two assumptions are typically…
Descriptors: Competence, Tests, Evaluation Methods, Adults
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Salaschek, Martin; Souvignier, Elmar – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2014
We examined a web-based mathematics progress monitoring tool for second graders. The tool monitors the learning progress of two competences, number sense and computation. A total of 414 students from 19 classrooms in Germany were checked every 3 weeks from fall to spring. Correlational analyses indicate that alternate-form reliability was adequate…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Students, Educational Technology
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Jackle, Robert; Himmler, Oliver – Journal of Human Resources, 2010
This paper complements previous studies on the effects of health on wages by addressing the problems of unobserved heterogeneity, sample selection, and endogeneity in one comprehensive framework. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we find the health variable to suffer from measurement error and a number of tests provide…
Descriptors: Wages, Measurement, Error of Measurement, Computation
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Franke, Gaitano; Bogner, Franz X. – Journal of Educational Research, 2011
In a German out-of-school laboratory, 293 medium-achieving 10th-grade students participated in a lesson unit about gene technology. They were divided into two groups (I-1, I-2), both of which followed the same hands-on lesson procedure. Students within I-2 were additionally confronted with alternative conceptions to central issues of the specific…
Descriptors: Units of Study, Misconceptions, Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement