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Direct linkDallas Horne – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Education reform in the United States is heavily regulated and has undergone various iterations in the past several decades. With each passing legislation, government mandates and educational initiatives become the focus of reform. School districts must constantly find ways to keep up with increasing state and federal accountability standards.…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Predictive Validity, Correlation, Scores
Peer reviewedJeanne Sinclair – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2025
In this paper, the White listening subject takes the form of a standardized high-stakes reading test, the State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness (STAAR). Although the test does not actually listen, it 'hears' and evaluates children's responses to its questions. I present the results of the 2017 Grade 8 reading exams, from the March, May,…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Standardized Tests, Reading Tests, Achievement Tests
Patrick K. Kirkland; Ying Cheng; Nicole M. McNeil – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 2024
This Brief Report presents an example of assessment validation using an argument-based approach. The instrument we developed is a Brief Assessment of Students' Mature Number Sense, which measures a central goal in mathematics education. We chose to develop this assessment to provide an efficient way to measure the effect of instructional practices…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Mathematics Education, Measures (Individuals)
Chase Young; Benjamin Mitchell-Yellin; George Kevin Randall – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2025
The purpose of this study was to develop a valid, reliable, and brief measure of active learning in college classrooms that is cheap and easy to complete and yields results that faculty can easily use to inform their development as instructors. Initial construct and face validity was achieved by modifying existing instruments and creating a draft…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Students, Active Learning, Classroom Observation Techniques
Kristin C. Scott; Mitchell Adrian; Jiun-Shiu Chen; Grace C. Su – International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education, 2023
Two-year public colleges educate more than 50% of all U.S. undergraduates, yet graduation rates (29%) fall far below their 4-year counterparts (63%). It is critical for students of 2-year public institutions that their faculty have the appropriate knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) to effectively guide students toward graduation. This study…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Two Year Colleges, Public Colleges
Joseph Hin Yan Lam; Maria D. Resendiz; Lisa M. Bedore; Ronald B. Gillam; Elizabeth D. Peña – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: In this validation study, we examined the factor structure of the mediated learning observation (MLO) used during the teaching phase of dynamic assessment. As an indicator of validity, we evaluated whether the MLO factor structure was consistent across children with and without developmental language disorder (DLD). Method: Two hundred…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Factor Structure, Observation, Student Evaluation
De León, Leticia; Corbeil, Rene; Corbeil, Maria Elena – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2023
K-12 educators' digital literacy skills have been designated as a national and state priority by education and accreditation agencies in Texas, resulting in the need for curriculum alignments to the 2017 ISTE Standards for Educators and implementation of a digital literacy evaluation. The purpose of this validation study was to develop a…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Teacher Education, Digital Literacy
Cody Griffin – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this dissertation is to describe the environment of current Texas Subchapter E University charter schools in Texas and some of the teachers that currently work at those charter schools. Two research questions guided this study: (1) What are teachers' experiences in Texas University Charter schools? How do their experiences compare…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Validity
W. Sean Kearney; Theresa A. Garfield; Diana Driggers – Education Leadership Review, 2024
This article presents an initial analysis of a new special education campus needs assessment designed to gauge educator perceptions of special education in five key areas: support, expectations, empowerment, equity, and professional development. The Special Education Campus Needs Assessment (SECNA) was pilot tested with a group of seventy-two…
Descriptors: Special Education, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Needs, Expectation
Klingbeil, David A.; Osman, David J.; Carrigan, Jamison E.; Paly, Benjamin J.; Berry-Corie, Kimberly – School Psychology, 2021
Multiple popular math curriculum-based measures have recently been revised in ways that may improve their utility for universal screening. However, the applied use of these tools has yet to be evaluated independently. We conducted a retrospective analysis of the diagnostic accuracy of prior year statewide test results and aimswebPlus math…
Descriptors: Screening Tests, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Curriculum Based Assessment
Toland, Michael D.; Grisham, Jennifer; Waddell, Misti; Crawford, Rebecca; Dueber, David M. – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2022
Rasch and classification analyses on a field-test version of the third edition of the Assessment, Evaluation, and Programming System (AEPS-3), a curriculum-based assessment used to assess young children birth to age 6 years, were conducted. First, an evaluation of the psychometric properties of data from each developmental area of an AEPS-3…
Descriptors: Curriculum Based Assessment, Field Tests, Young Children, Item Response Theory
Download full textGiani, Matt S.; Attewell, Paul; Walling, David – Texas Education Research Center, 2021
Despite advances made in broadening access to higher education, some evidence suggests that college completion rates have actually declined over time, and attainment gaps stemming from race/ethnicity and socioeconomic background have remained stubbornly persistent (Bound, Lovenheim, & Turner, 2010; National Center for Education Statistics,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Higher Education, Graduation Rate, Academic Persistence
Mansolf, Maxwell; Vreeker, Annabel; Reise, Steven P.; Freimer, Nelson B.; Glahn, David C.; Gur, Raquel E.; Moore, Tyler M.; Pato, Carlos N.; Pato, Michele T.; Palotie, Aarno; Holm, Minna; Suvisaari, Jaana; Partonen, Timo; Kieseppä, Tuula; Paunio, Tiina; Boks, Marco; Kahn, René; Ophoff, Roel A.; Bearden, Carrie E.; Loohuis, Loes Olde; Teshiba, Terri; deGeorge, Daniella; Bilder, Robert M. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2020
Large-scale studies spanning diverse project sites, populations, languages, and measurements are increasingly important to relate psychological to biological variables. National and international consortia already are collecting and executing mega-analyses on aggregated data from individuals, with different measures on each person. In this…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Data Analysis, Measurement, Validity
Roberson, Mikayla M.; Lund, Emily – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the attitudes and knowledge of school-based speech-language pathologists toward trauma-informed care. Method: School-based speech-language pathologists (N = 116) completed the Attitudes Related to Trauma-Informed Care Scale Version 45 Education (ARTIC-45) survey via an online survey platform and…
Descriptors: Speech Language Pathology, Allied Health Personnel, Counselor Attitudes, Knowledge Level
Jo-Kate Collier – ProQuest LLC, 2021
With this study I investigate the consequential validity of a state English language proficiency (ELP) assessment, following Messick's (1989) expanded theory on validity. I examined intended and unintended consequences of the Texas English Language Proficiency Assessment System (TELPAS) through stakeholder perceptions. TELPAS is a federally…
Descriptors: Test Validity, English (Second Language), Language Tests, English Learners
