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Benjawan Plengkham; Sonthaya Rattanasak; Patsawut Sukserm – Journal of Education and Learning, 2025
This academic article provides the essential steps for designing an effective English questionnaire in social science research, with a focus on ensuring clarity, cultural sensitivity and ethical integrity. Developed from key insights from related studies, it outlines potential practice in questionnaire design, item development and the importance…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Test Construction, Questionnaires, Surveys
Liou, Gloria; Bonner, Cavan V.; Tay, Louis – International Journal of Testing, 2022
With the advent of big data and advances in technology, psychological assessments have become increasingly sophisticated and complex. Nevertheless, traditional psychometric issues concerning the validity, reliability, and measurement bias of such assessments remain fundamental in determining whether score inferences of human attributes are…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Computer Assisted Testing, Adaptive Testing, Data
What Works Clearinghouse, 2015
The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) Standards Briefs explain the rules the WWC uses to evaluate the quality of studies for practitioners, researchers, and policymakers. This brief explains what baseline equivalence is and why it matters. As part of the WWC review process for certain types of studies, reviewers assess whether the intervention group…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Participant Characteristics, Matched Groups, Research Methodology
Lembke, Erica S.; Stecker, Pamela M. – Center on Instruction, 2007
One of the best methods of formative assessment in academic areas and a method that exemplifies the characteristics of good measures is Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM; Deno, 1985). Developed at the University of Minnesota in the early 1970's, CBM has been researched in academic areas including mathematics computation, concepts, and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Based Assessment, Formative Evaluation, Mathematics Education, Educational Research

Winholtz, William S.; Ramig, Lorraine Olson – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1992
This paper describes the Vocal Demodulator as a new device for analysis of vocal tremor. The Vocal Demodulator produces amplitude-demodulated and frequency-demodulated outputs and measures the frequency and level of low-frequency tremor components in sustained phonation. The paper describes quantification of the demodulation process, validation…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Clinical Diagnosis, Equipment Evaluation, Evaluation Methods

Frederiksen, John R.; Collins, Allan – Educational Researcher, 1989
Proposes a systemically valid testing system that induces curricular and instructional changes in education systems to foster the development of the cognitive traits that tests are designed to measure. Analyzes test characteristics and outlines the principles of a systemically valid testing system. (FMW)
Descriptors: Cognitive Tests, Educational Change, Outcomes of Education, Systems Approach

Gross, Edward J.; And Others – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 1994
This study describes the development of the Active Treatment Client Rights checklist (ATCR), which was designed to facilitate the assessment, monitoring, and implementation of readily observable client active treatment services for adults with developmental disabilities. The ATCR was found to be highly reliable, valid, and useful in enhancing…
Descriptors: Adults, Check Lists, Developmental Disabilities, Evaluation Methods
Villanova, Robert M. – 1984
This paper reports on the development and refinement of the Connecticut School Effectiveness Questionnaire (CSEQ) and the Connecticut School Effectiveness Interview (CSEI), the primary data collection tools used in the Connecticut State Department of Education School Effectiveness Project. The primary purpose of both the CSEI and the CSEQ is to…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Factor Structure, Institutional Characteristics, Interviews

Bricker, Diane; Squires, Jane – Journal of Early Intervention, 1989
The Infant Monitoring Project is designed to identify infants in need of further evaluation, by having parents complete a set of questionnaires about their infant's development at four-six month intervals. Evaluation of the questionnaires has shown that they are low-cost and have substantial agreement with standardized assessments. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Child Development, Diagnostic Tests, Evaluation Methods, High Risk Persons

Norris, Stephen P. – Educational Researcher, 1989
Discusses the generalizability of critical thinking and the disposition to think critically. Argues that verbal reports of examinees' thinking on multiple-choice tests can explain the reasoning behind their answers and, thus, can be used to assess the inability to make credibility judgments. (FMW)
Descriptors: Credibility, Critical Thinking, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation

Oblowitz, Neil; And Others – Volta Review, 1991
The paper describes a self-concept scale specifically designed for use with hearing-impaired adolescents and preadolescents. The "Self-Concept Scale for the Hearing Impaired" is a Likert-type self-report scale using linked verbal and pictorial material, and results in both a global score and a self-concept profile. Validity issues are…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Elementary Secondary Education, Hearing Impairments, Rating Scales
Furst, Edward J. – 1983
Enough evidence has accumulated on Bloom's "Taxonomy of Educational Objectives" for the cognitive domain to justify a review of its communicability. This article covers both published and unpublished studies as well as certain informal reports that bear on this property. It also examines possibilities for improving agreement among…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Classification, Cognitive Processes, Diffusion (Communication)
Sheehan, Robert; Snyder, Scott – Diagnostique, 1990
Two forms of the Battelle Developmental Inventory, intended for use with handicapped and nonhandicapped children ages 0-8, are examined. The instruments measure personal-social, adaptive, motor, communication, and cognitive skills, for use in screening, diagnosis, identification, assessment, and program evaluation. The paper discusses test…
Descriptors: Child Development, Disabilities, Early Childhood Education, Educational Diagnosis
Barowsky, Ellis I. – Diagnostique, 1990
The Luria Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery identifies cognitive deficits and localizes specific brain impairment in individuals age 15 or older. The instrument uses visual stimulus cards and an audiotape to assess performance in such areas as tactile functions, speech, arithmetic, and memory. This paper examines test administration, summation…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Cognitive Measurement
Lazarus, Belinda D.; And Others – Diagnostique, 1990
The Peabody Individual Achievement Test-Revised offers a standardized assessment of an individual's level of academic performance in reading, mathematics, spelling, written expression, and encyclopedic knowledge. The test is designed as a screening device for students ages 5-18. This paper describes administration, summation of data,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Achievement, Reading Achievement