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Collin Shepley; Amanda Leigh Duncan; Anthony P. Setari – Journal of Early Intervention, 2025
The provision of progress monitoring within publicly funded early childhood classrooms is legally required, supported by empirical research, and recommended by early childhood professional organizations, for teachers providing Part B services under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Despite the widespread recognition of progress…
Descriptors: Progress Monitoring, Measures (Individuals), Test Construction, Test Validity
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MacKenzie D. Sidwell; Landon W. Bonner; Kayla Bates-Brantley; Shengtian Wu – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2024
Oral reading fluency probes are essential for reading assessment, intervention, and progress monitoring. Due to the limited options for choosing oral reading fluency probes, it is important to utilize all available resources such as generative artificial intelligence (AI) like ChatGPT to create oral reading fluency probes. The purpose of this…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Technology Uses in Education, Oral Reading
Briesch, Amy M.; Donaldson, Aberdine R.; Matta, Michael; Volpe, Robert J.; Daniels, Brian; Owens, Julie Sarno – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2022
Prevalence estimates suggest that up to 20% of students in schools experience significant internalizing behaviors that impact behavioral, social, or academic functioning. School-based interventions have great potential to promote student mental health; however, validated and feasible brief assessments are needed to progress monitor students'…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Behavior Rating Scales, Progress Monitoring, Observation
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Needham-Beck, Sarah C.; Aujla, Imogen. J. – Research in Dance Education, 2021
The lack of systematic training available for young dancers with disabilities has previously presented a barrier for those wishing to develop their skills and pursue a career in dance. Recently, a number of initiatives have launched to help bridge this gap; however, currently no established assessment measures exist that are sensitive to the needs…
Descriptors: Performance Tests, Test Construction, Test Reliability, Inclusion
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Ward, Thomas J. – Contemporary School Psychology, 2019
The use of evidence-based assessment practices seems to be a straightforward process to endorse. Having evidence that ties a practice to prediction, prescription, or process has the potential to advance overall practice in School Psychology in ways that have already been seen in medicine and, to a lesser degree, clinical psychology. However, the…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Student Evaluation, School Psychology, Test Construction
Kendeou, Panayiota; McMaster, Kristen L.; Butterfuss, Reese; Kim, Jasmine; Slater, Susan; Bulut, Okan – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2021
The overall aim of the current investigation was to develop and validate the initial version of the Minnesota Inference Assessment (MIA). MIA is a web-based measure of inference processes in Grades K-2. MIA leverages the affordances of different media to evaluate inference processes in a nonreading context, using age-appropriate fiction and…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Inferences, Computer Assisted Testing
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Dart, Evan H.; Arora, Prerna; Collins, Tai; Stark, Kevin; Cook, Clayton R.; Duong, Mylien T.; McCarty, Carolyn A.; Doll, Beth – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2020
Frequent formative assessment of students' functioning, or progress monitoring, is a critical component of multi-tiered systems of support as data inform data-driven decisions about response to treatment. Progress monitoring tools for students' academic and behavioral functioning are readily available and widely researched; however, despite the…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Progress Monitoring, Depression (Psychology), Emotional Disturbances
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Thompson, James; Houston, Donald – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2020
The paramedic profession is rapidly evolving and has witnessed significant expansion in the scope of practice and the public expectations of the paramedic role in recent years. Increasing demands for greater knowledge and skills for paramedics has implications for the university programs tasked with their pre-employment training. The certification…
Descriptors: Allied Health Personnel, Allied Health Occupations Education, Certification, Evaluation Methods
Will, Kelsey K.; McConnell, Scott R.; Elmquist, Marianne; Lease, Erin M.; Wackerle-Hollman, Alisha – Grantee Submission, 2019
Assessment is prevalent throughout all levels of education in the United States. Even though educators are familiar with the idea of assessing students, familiarity does not necessarily ensure assessment literacy, or data-based decision making (DBDM) knowledge. Assessment literacy and DBDM are critical in education, and early childhood education…
Descriptors: Researchers, Assessment Literacy, Data Use, Test Construction
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Gökçe, Semirhan; Güner, Pinar; Bastug, Muhammet – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
The purpose of this study is to develop tests for monitoring the number sense skills of primary school students based on proficiency definitions and to compare their number sense skills according to gender, school type, and mother's educational level. The first stage addressed to test development in which anchor items were used for vertical…
Descriptors: Mathematics Tests, Mathematics Skills, Number Concepts, Elementary School Students
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Liu, Bowen; Kennedy, Patrick C.; Seipel, Ben; Carlson, Sarah E.; Biancarosa, Gina; Davison, Mark L. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2019
This article describes an ongoing project to develop a formative, inferential reading comprehension assessment of causal story comprehension. It has three features to enhance classroom use: equated scale scores for progress monitoring within and across grades, a scale score to distinguish among low-scoring students based on patterns of mistakes,…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Reading Comprehension, Story Reading, Test Construction
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Zeuch, Nina; Förster, Natalie; Souvignier, Elmar – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2017
Learning progress assessment (LPA) provides formative information about effectiveness of instructional decisions. Learning curves are usually presented as graphical illustrations. However, little is known about teachers understanding and interpreting of graphically presented information. An instrument to measure competencies in reading graphs from…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Decision Making, Graphs, Knowledge Level
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Golovachyova, Viktoriya N.; Menlibekova, Gulbakhyt Zh.; Abayeva, Nella F.; Ten, Tatyana L.; Kogaya, Galina D. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
Using computer-based monitoring systems that rely on tests could be the most effective way of knowledge evaluation. The problem of objective knowledge assessment by means of testing takes on a new dimension in the context of new paradigms in education. The analysis of the existing test methods enabled us to conclude that tests with selected…
Descriptors: Expertise, Computer Assisted Testing, Student Evaluation, Knowledge Level
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Barghaus, Katherine; Fantuzzo, John; LeBoeuf, Whitney; Henderson, Cassandra; Li, Feifei; McDermott, Paul – Early Education and Development, 2017
Research Findings: The aim of this study was to provide an initial investigation into the psychometric properties of the Problems in Classroom Engagement Scale (PCES). The PCES was designed and tested for district-wide use as part of the report card system for a large urban school district. The PCES was administered to all 1st-, 2nd-, and…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Learner Engagement, Program Validation, Psychometrics
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Tsiakara, Angeliki; Digelidis, Nikolaos M. – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
The aim of this study was to develop a direct observational system in order to assess competitive behaviours in preschool children. Participants were 176 children (90 boys, 86 girls; M[subscript age]?=?5.2 years) from 10 kindergarten classes of one town of Central Greece. A new observational system (Observational System Assessing Competition in…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Child Behavior, Competition, Kindergarten
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