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Hall, Matthew L.; De Anda, Stephanie – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: The purposes of this study were (a) to introduce "language access profiles" as a viable alternative construct to "communication mode" for describing experience with language input during early childhood for deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children; (b) to describe the development of a new tool for measuring DHH…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Children, Profiles
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de Vocht, Miikka; Laherto, Antti – European Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2017
In order to facilitate policy-driven reforms in science education, it is important to understand how teaching innovations diffuse among teachers and how that adoption process can be catalysed. Little is known about the set of attitudes that makes teachers early or late adopters. In this study, the Concerns-Based Adoption Model (C-BAM) was employed…
Descriptors: Profiles, Teacher Attitudes, Professionalism, Science Instruction
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Bridgeman, Brent; Cho, Yeonsuk; DiPietro, Stephen – Language Testing, 2016
Data from 787 international undergraduate students at an urban university in the United States were used to demonstrate the importance of separating a sample into meaningful subgroups in order to demonstrate the ability of an English language assessment to predict the first-year grade point average (GPA). For example, when all students were pooled…
Descriptors: Grade Prediction, English Curriculum, Language Tests, Undergraduate Students
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Halpin, Peter F.; Torrente, Catalina – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2014
Using reliable and valid measures of students' outcomes which are sensitive to change is critical for obtaining interpretable and therefore useful results from evaluations of school-based interventions. While measurement development for use in experimental evaluations receives a great deal of attention in the U.S., it lags behind in low-income…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outcome Measures, Outcomes of Education, Cluster Grouping
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Demetriou, Andreas; Kyriakides, Leonidas – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2006
This study examines the organization and development of 5 domains of reasoning (categorical, quantitative, spatial, causal, and propositional) and the construct validity of a test designed to measure development from early adolescence to early adulthood. The theory underlying the test is first summarized and the conceptual design of the test is…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Epistemology, Validity, Factor Analysis
Hunter, John E.; Gerbing, David W. – 1979
Confirmatory factor analysis is presented as providing appropriate techniques for the analysis and evaluation of questionnaires and tests if the content of the measure can be identified as consisting of groups of items, with each group measuring only a single trait. This approach is contrasted with latent trait theory which assumes (and does not…
Descriptors: Cluster Analysis, Cluster Grouping, Cognitive Measurement, Factor Analysis
Hattie, John A.; And Others – 1986
Measures of both preferred and actual classroom and school environment were administered to 1,675 secondary school students in New South Wales (Australia). Shortened versions of the My Class Inventory, Classroom Environment Scale, and Individualized Classroom Environment Questionnaire, as well as the Quality of School Life questionnaire were…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affective Measures, Age Differences, Analysis of Variance