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Young, John W.; Steinberg, Jonathan; Cline, Fred; Stone, Elizabeth; Martiniello, Maria; Ling, Guangming; Cho, Yeonsuk – Educational Assessment, 2010
To date, assessment validity research on non-native English speaking students in the United States has focused exclusively on those who are presently English language learners (ELLs). However, little, if any, research has been conducted on two other sizable groups of language minority students: (a) bilingual or multilingual students who were…
Descriptors: Test Validity, English (Second Language), Multilingualism, Bilingualism
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Pomplun, Mark; Ritchie, Timothy; Custer, Michael – Educational Assessment, 2006
This study investigated factors related to score differences on computerized and paper-and-pencil versions of a series of primary K-3 reading tests. Factors studied included item and student characteristics. The results suggest that the score differences were more related to student than item characteristics. These student characteristics include…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Student Characteristics, Response Style (Tests), Socioeconomic Status
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Awang-Hashim, Rosa; O'Neil, Harold F., Jr.; Hocevar, Dennis – Educational Assessment, 2002
The relations between motivational constructs, effort, self-efficacy and worry, and statistics achievement were investigated in a sample of 360 undergraduates in Malaysia. Both trait (cross-situational) and state (task-specific) measures of each construct were used to test a mediational trait (r) state (r) performance (TSP) model. As hypothesized,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Motivation, Self Efficacy, Factor Analysis