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Validating Embedded Validity Indicators of Feigned ADHD-Associated Cognitive Impairment Using the MOXO-d-CPT
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Daniella Winter; Yoram Braw – Journal of Attention Disorders, 2022
Background: The current study aimed to validate the utility of previously established validity indicators derived from MOXO-d-CPT's continuous performance test. Method: Healthy simulators feigned impairment after searching online for relevant information, an ecologically valid coaching condition (n = 39). They were compared to ADHD patients (n =…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Computer Simulation
On the Validity of Useless Tests
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Sireci, Stephen G. – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2016
A misconception exists that validity may refer only to the "interpretation" of test scores and not to the "uses" of those scores. The development and evolution of validity theory illustrate test score interpretation was a primary focus in the earliest days of modern testing, and that validating interpretations derived from test…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Misconceptions, Evaluation Utilization, Data Interpretation
Validating Test Score Meaning and Defending Test Score Use: Different Aims, Different Methods
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Cizek, Gregory J. – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2016
Advances in validity theory and alacrity in validation practice have suffered because the term "validity" has been used to refer to two incompatible concerns: (1) the degree of support for specified interpretations of test scores (i.e. intended score meaning) and (2) the degree of support for specified applications (i.e. intended test…
Descriptors: Scores, Definitions, Evaluation Utilization, Data Interpretation
Using Assessment to Achieve Quality in Student Affairs.
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Scott, Richard M. – New Directions for Student Services, 1996
Explores the idea of quality, what it means to educators (student affairs professionals in particular), and the role assessment plays in measuring quality. Examines how assessment is used within Total Quality Management to measure quality from a customer perspective; compares such assessments to traditional evaluative methods. (RJM)
Descriptors: College Administration, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Utilization, Higher Education
Evaluating Effectiveness: A Comparison of Federal Expectations and Local Capabilities for Evaluation among Federally Funded Model Demonstration Programs.
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DeStefano, Lizanne – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1992
Citing the signaling and charged use distinction, examines federal expectations and need for evaluation data and extent of local capabilities to meet those expectations when secondary/transition model demonstration projects, funded by the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services, were obligated to improve amount, quality, and use of…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Demonstration Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
The Utilization of Training Program Evaluation in Corporate Universities
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Bober, Christopher F.; Bartlett, Kenneth R. – Human Resource Development Quarterly, 2004
This study examined the use of training program evaluation results in corporate universities. Specifically, the study attempted to determine which organizational members use evaluation data, and for what purposes, and identify the factors that are related to the use of evaluation results. The study was designed to test the appropriateness of the…
Descriptors: Universities, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Utilization, Evaluation Methods