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Han, Jae-Bum – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The primary goal of this dissertation is to develop and provide preliminary validation for a new measure of culturally responsive practice. This instrument, which is called the Culturally Responsive Practice Scale (CRPS), includes items that reflect ways that teachers teach multicultural students in their classrooms. To accomplish the goal, three…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Educational Practices, Secondary School Teachers, Foreign Countries
Kumazawa, Takaaki – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Although classroom assessment is one of the most frequent practices carried out by teachers in all educational programs, limited research has been conducted to investigate the dependability and validity of criterion-referenced tests (CRTs). The main purpose of this study is to develop a criterion-referenced test for first-year Japanese university…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Test Construction, Test Validity, English (Second Language)
Thomas, Lisa B. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Reading comprehension is a critical aspect of the reading process. Children who experience significant problems in reading comprehension are at risk for long-term academic and social problems. High-quality measures are needed for early, efficient, and effective identification of children in need of remediation in reading comprehension. Substantial…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Scoring Rubrics, Predictive Validity, Validity
Ganzeveld, Paula – ProQuest LLC, 2015
Curriculum-Based Measures in writing (CBM-W) assesses a variety of fluency-based components of writing. While support exists for the use of CBM measures in the area of writing, there is a need to conduct further validation studies to investigate the utility of these measures within elementary and secondary classrooms. Since only countable indices…
Descriptors: Curriculum Based Assessment, Writing Evaluation, Test Validity, Educational Quality
Greene, Travis – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to develop and validate an instrument through facet-factorial analysis to assess high school marching band performance. Forty-one items were chosen to define subscales for the Marching Band Performance Rating Scale - Music and 31 items for the Marching Band Performance Rating Scale - Visual. To examine the stability…
Descriptors: Music Activities, High School Students, Rating Scales, Validity
Stevens, Olinger; Leigh, Erika – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Scope and Method of Study: The purpose of the study is to use an empirical approach to identify a simple, economical, efficient, and technically adequate performance measure that teachers can use to assess student growth in mathematics. The current study has been designed to expand the body of research for math CBM to further examine technical…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Evaluation Methods, Student Evaluation, Measurement Techniques