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Direct linkNewton, Paul E.; Shaw, Stuart D. – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2016
The ability to convey shared meaning with minimal ambiguity is highly desirable for technical terms within disciplines and professions. Unfortunately, there is no widespread professional consensus over the meaning of the word "validity" as it pertains to educational and psychological testing. After illustrating the nature and extent of…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Validity, Ambiguity (Semantics), Psychological Testing
Liebenberg, Linda; Ungar, Michael; Van de Vijver, Fons – Research on Social Work Practice, 2012
Objectives: This article presents the validation of the 28-item Child and Youth Resilience Measure (CYRM-28) among two Canadian samples of youth with complex needs. Method: The CYRM-28 was administered to two groups of concurrent service using youth in Atlantic Canada (n[subscript 1] = 497; n[subscript 2] = 410) allowing for use of exploratory and…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Foreign Countries, Psychometrics, Program Validation
Shay, Suellen Butler – Harvard Educational Review, 2004
Based on her study of the assessment and validation of final year projects in two academic departments--one located in a humanities faculty and the other in an engineering faculty of a South African university--Suellen Shay argues that the assessment of complex tasks is a socially situated interpretive act. Her argument centers on three questions.…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Student Projects, Evaluation Methods, Interpersonal Relationship
Genovese, Jeremy E. C. – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 2005
In this study, the author tested the reliability, concurrent validity, and predictive validity of three hemispheric cognitive style instruments: (a) the Preference Test (PT; R. Zenhausern, 1978), (b) the Polarity Questionnaire (PQ; B. E. Morton, 2002), and (c) the Wagner Preference Inventory II (WAPI II; R. F. Wagner & K. A. Wells, 1985).…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Item Analysis, Psychometrics, Multitrait Multimethod Techniques
Download full textAinley, John; Fraillon, Julian; Freeman, Chris – Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (NJ1), 2007
This report is based on the assessment of ICT (information and communication technology) literacy conducted in October 2005. It describes the development of a computer-based tool for assessing ICT literacy among school students and the application of that tool with a nationally representative sample of approximately 7,400 students from Years 6 and…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Computer Software, Information Technology, Information Sources
