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Tanisha Nichole McClaren – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The current proposed study sought to extend the work conducted by Ostrosky et al. (2022). The research extension aimed to include and determine the effectiveness of EBI using three instructional models as group contingencies. The results compared the lecture instructional model and interdependent and individualized EBI research results of 10- and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Comparative Analysis, Teaching Methods, Lecture Method
Yixi Wang – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Binary item response theory (IRT) models are widely used in educational testing data. These models are not perfect because they simplify the individual item responding process, ignore the differences among different response patterns, cannot handle multidimensionality that lay behind options within a single item, and cannot manage missing response…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Educational Testing, Data, Models
Yi Gui – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study explores using transfer learning in machine learning for natural language processing (NLP) to create generic automated essay scoring (AES) models, providing instant online scoring for statewide writing assessments in K-12 education. The goal is to develop an instant online scorer that is generalizable to any prompt, addressing the…
Descriptors: Writing Tests, Natural Language Processing, Writing Evaluation, Scoring
Jane Ann Schmidt – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Instructional coaching has been implemented in schools to improve student achievement; however, literature shows a lack of evidence of the efficacy of improving student reading achievement. The problem addressed in this study was that school districts have implemented instructional coaching to improve student reading achievement, but the…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Coaching (Performance), Grade 3, Elementary School Teachers
Stephanie B. Moore – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This three-manuscript dissertation attempts to answer the question: "How does students' English language proficiency (ELP) inform the availability, structure, and use of English language accommodations and intervention to support the academic achievement of English learner (EL) students?" The question is addressed using three independent…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Language Proficiency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Wang, Keyin – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The comparison of item-level computerized adaptive testing (CAT) and multistage adaptive testing (MST) has been researched extensively (e.g., Kim & Plake, 1993; Luecht et al., 1996; Patsula, 1999; Jodoin, 2003; Hambleton & Xing, 2006; Keng, 2008; Zheng, 2012). Various CAT and MST designs have been investigated and compared under the same…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Testing, Adaptive Testing, Test Items
Alexander James Kwako – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Automated assessment using Natural Language Processing (NLP) has the potential to make English speaking assessments more reliable, authentic, and accessible. Yet without careful examination, NLP may exacerbate social prejudices based on gender or native language (L1). Current NLP-based assessments are prone to such biases, yet research and…
Descriptors: Gender Bias, Natural Language Processing, Native Language, Computational Linguistics
Jin Soo Choi – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Nonverbal behavior is essential in human interaction (Gullberg, de Bot, & Volterra, 2008; McNeill, 1992, 2005). For second language speakers, nonverbal features can be helpful for successful and efficient communication (e.g., Dahl & Ludvigsen, 2014). However, due to the complexity of nonverbal features, language testing institutions have…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Language Proficiency, Videoconferencing, Second Language Learning
Fomenko, Julie Ann Schwein – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Twenty-first-century healthcare is a complex and demanding arena. Today's hospital environment is more complex than in previous years while patients move through the system at a much faster pace. Newly graduated nurses are challenged in their first year with the healthcare needs of complex patients. Nurse educators and nurse leaders differ in…
Descriptors: Simulation, Nurses, Nursing Education, Competence
Soohye Yeom – ProQuest LLC, 2023
With the wide introduction of English-medium instruction (EMI) to higher education institutions throughout East Asian countries, many East Asian universities are using English proficiency tests that were not originally designed for this context to make admissions and placement decisions. To support the use of these tests in this new EMI context,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Writing Tests
Whitman, Richard T. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Atomic weapons testing during the Cold War and accidents at nuclear power plants have resulted in the release of radioactive fallout over great distances. Little is known about levels of fallout deposited in Indiana. The reported study sampled soil in all 92 Indiana counties to determine the present level of cesium-137 from the 2 to 12 centimeter…
Descriptors: Soil Science, Radiation, Nuclear Physics, Nuclear Energy
Ayodele, Alicia Nicole – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Within polytomous items, differential item functioning (DIF) can take on various forms due to the number of response categories. The lack of invariance at this level is referred to as differential step functioning (DSF). The most common DSF methods in the literature are the adjacent category log odds ratio (AC-LOR) estimator and cumulative…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Test Bias, Test Items, Scores
Norouzian, Reza – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This dissertation consists of three manuscripts. The manuscripts contribute to a budding "methodological reform" currently taking place in quantitative second-language (L2) research. In the first manuscript, the researcher describes an empirical investigation on the application of two well-known effect size estimators, eta-squared (eta…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Second Language Learning, Language Research, Periodicals
Merrill, Trish – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Curriculum Based Measurements (CBM) are a widely-used tool for Response to Intervention (RTI) progress monitoring. In addition, they can be used in the determination of learning disabilities and special education qualification. The most widely used type of CBM is a measure of oral reading fluency (ORF). This type involves having a student read out…
Descriptors: Curriculum Based Assessment, Oral Reading, Reading Fluency, Comparative Analysis
McCall, Megan O'Neill – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study examined the effects of cooperative testing versus traditional or individual testing and the impacts on academic achievement, motivation toward science, and study time for 9th grade biology students. Research questions centered on weekly quizzes given in a flipped classroom format for a period of 13 weeks. The study used a mixed methods…
Descriptors: Individual Testing, Group Testing, Academic Achievement, Learning Motivation