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Direct linkHe, Qingping; Boyle, Andrew; Opposs, Dennis – Evaluation & Research in Education, 2011
Building on findings from existing qualitative research into public perceptions of reliability in examination results in England, a questionnaire was developed and administered to samples of teachers, students and employers to study their awareness of and opinions about various aspects of reliability quantitatively. Main findings from the study…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Student Evaluation, Tests, Program Effectiveness
Download full textRolstad, Kellie; Mahoney, Kate; Glass, Gene V. – Journal of Educational Research & Policy Studies, 2008
In light of a recent revelation that Gersten (1985) included erroneous information on one of two programs for English Language Learners (ELLs), the authors re-calculate results of their earlier meta-analysis of program effectiveness studies for ELLs in which Gersten's studies had behaved as outliers (Rolstad, Mahoney & Glass, 2005). The correction…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Second Language Learning, Program Effectiveness, Effect Size
Ferrao, Maria – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2010
The Bologna Declaration brought reforms into higher education that imply changes in teaching methods, didactic materials and textbooks, infrastructures and laboratories, etc. Statistics and mathematics are disciplines that traditionally have the worst success rates, particularly in non-mathematics core curricula courses. This research project,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Assisted Testing, Educational Technology, Educational Assessment
Reardon, Sean F. – Education and the Public Interest Center, 2009
"How New York City's Charter Schools Affect Achievement" estimates the effects on student achievement of attending a New York City charter school rather than a traditional public school and investigates the characteristics of charter schools associated with the most positive effects on achievement. Because the report relies on an…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Achievement Rating
Khoo, Siek-Toon; Muthen, Bengt – 1997
The aim of this paper is to explore methods for evaluating the effects of randomized interventions in a longitudinal design. The focus is on methods for modeling the possibly nonlinear relationship between treatment effect and baseline and evaluating the treatment effect taking this nonlinear relationship into account. A control/treatment growth…
Descriptors: Error of Measurement, Evaluation Methods, Interaction, Longitudinal Studies
Sawaki, Yasuyo – Language Testing, 2007
This is a construct validation study of a second language speaking assessment that reported a language profile based on analytic rating scales and a composite score. The study addressed three key issues: score dependability, convergent/discriminant validity of analytic rating scales and the weighting of analytic ratings in the composite score.…
Descriptors: Generalizability Theory, Speech Communication, Student Placement, Construct Validity
Schumacker, Randall E. – 1992
The regression-discontinuity approach to evaluating educational programs is reviewed, and regression-discontinuity post-program mean differences under various conditions are discussed. The regression-discontinuity design is used to determine whether post-program differences exist between an experimental program and a control group. The difference…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Simulation, Control Groups, Cutting Scores
