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Kaja Haugen; Cecilie Hamnes Carlsen; Christine Möller-Omrani – Language Awareness, 2025
This article presents the process of constructing and validating a test of metalinguistic awareness (MLA) for young school children (age 8-10). The test was developed between 2021 and 2023 as part of the MetaLearn research project, financed by The Research Council of Norway. The research team defines MLA as using metalinguistic knowledge at a…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Test Construction, Elementary School Students, Metalinguistics
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Antonio P. Gutierrez de Blume; Diana Marcela Montoya Londoño; Virginia Jiménez Rodríguez; Olivia Morán Núñez; Ariel Cuadro; Lilián Daset; Mauricio Molina Delgado; Claudia García de la Cadena; María Beatríz Beltrán Navarro; Aníbal Puente Ferreras; Sebastián Urquijo; Walter Lizandro Arias – Metacognition and Learning, 2024
Metacognition is defined as a higher-order thinking skill that enables individuals to monitor, control, and regulate their thinking and behavior. In education, this skill is important, as learners need to self-regulate their learning behaviors for successful lifelong learning. Thus, it is essential for educators and learners alike to know their…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Measures (Individuals), Psychometrics, Standards
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W. Jake Thompson – Grantee Submission, 2024
Diagnostic classification models (DCMs) are psychometric models that can be used to estimate the presence or absence of psychological traits, or proficiency on fine-grained skills. Critical to the use of any psychometric model in practice, including DCMs, is an evaluation of model fit. Traditionally, DCMs have been estimated with maximum…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Classification, Psychometrics, Goodness of Fit
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Amin D. Lotfizadeh; Brendan Gard; Cynthia Rico; Alan Poling; Kristen R. Choi – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2025
Behavior analysts frequently use the Verbal Behavior Milestones Assessment and Placement Program (VB-MAPP) to assess the language and social skills of children with autism in everyday practice and in research. Despite the widespread use of the VB-MAPP, its psychometric characteristics have not been extensively investigated. To provide information…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Rating Scales, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Test Validity
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Igor Esnaola; Albert Sesé; Lorea Azpiazu; Yina Wang – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
Background: Modelling academic self-concept through second-order factors or bifactor structures is an important issue with substantive and practical implications; besides, the bifactor model has not been analysed with a Chinese sample and cross-cultural studies in the academic self-concept are scarce. Likewise, latent structure validity evidence…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Self Concept, Psychometrics, Validity
Dongmei Li; Shalini Kapoor; Ann Arthur; Chi-Yu Huang; YoungWoo Cho; Chen Qiu; Hongling Wang – ACT Education Corp., 2025
Starting in April 2025, ACT will introduce enhanced forms of the ACT® test for national online testing, with a full rollout to all paper and online test takers in national, state and district, and international test administrations by Spring 2026. ACT introduced major updates by changing the test lengths and testing times, providing more time per…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Testing, Change, Scoring
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Fanny Lalot; Diane M. Houston – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2025
Reviews of social comparison processes in school contexts have concluded that individual differences in propensity to compare with others are likely to be important in the classroom, but that there is a paucity of evidence testing this key proposition. To address this gap, we developed and validated a new measure of propensity to engage in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Individual Differences, Peer Relationship
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Qiongxi Zhang; Lisa Underwood; Elizabeth R. Peterson; John Fenaughty; Karen E. Waldie – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2024
Background: The Aggressive Student Culture Scale (ASCS) is a survey designed to measure the extent to which New Zealand (NZ) students experience aggressive behaviours within the school environment. The aim of this study is to assess the psychometric properties of the ASCS in the multidisciplinary "Growing Up in NZ" longitudinal study.…
Descriptors: Aggression, Gender Differences, Factor Structure, Comparative Analysis
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Shannon Ryan; Thomas J. Power; Laura Pendergast; Bridget Poznanski; Jenelle Nissley-Tsiopinis; Howard Abikoff; Richard Gallagher; Katie Tremont; Jaclyn Cacia; Jennifer A. Mautone – Grantee Submission, 2024
Organization, time management, and planning (OTMP) skills are behavioral manifestations of executive functioning linked to academic outcomes. Interventions to improve OTMP skills have shown favorable outcomes. The Children's Organizational Skills Scale parent and teacher forms (COSS-P, COSS-T) are widely used for assessing OTMP skills, but there…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Rating Scales, Executive Function, Time Management
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Shannon Ryan; Thomas J. Power; Laura Pendergast; Bridget Poznanski; Jenelle Nissley-Tsiopinis; Howard Abikoff; Richard Gallagher; Katie Tremont; Jaclyn Cacia; Jennifer A. Mautone – School Mental Health, 2024
Organization, time management, and planning (OTMP) skills are behavioral manifestations of executive functioning linked to academic outcomes. Interventions to improve OTMP skills have shown favorable outcomes. The Children's Organizational Skills Scale parent and teacher forms (COSS-P, COSS-T) are widely used for assessing OTMP skills, but there…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Rating Scales, Executive Function, Time Management
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Chantelle Bosch – Journal of Education and e-Learning Research, 2024
This study investigates the validity and reliability of the Intrinsic Motivation Inventory (IMI) in the context of blended learning. In the digital age, the fusion of online components with traditional classroom instruction has become integral to modern pedagogy, giving rise to blended learning--a flexible approach accommodating diverse learning…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Student Motivation, Economics Education, Blended Learning
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Rosemary Erlam; Lan Wei – Language Teaching Research, 2024
This study is a conceptual replication of Ellis' 'Measuring implicit and explicit knowledge of a second language: A psychometric study', published in "Studies in Second Language Acquisition" (2005), aiming to establish the importance of including belief statements (hypothesized to increase processing demands) in the design of Elicited…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Psychometrics
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Zhenyu Zhou; Oksana Mkrtichian – European Journal of Education, 2025
Academic stress, an endemic phenomenon in higher education, presents a multifaceted challenge, manifesting as cognitive overload, affective dysregulation and physiological destabilisation. It leads to recurrent feedback loops that reinforce anxiety and frustration, intensifying maladaptive stress responses. This study examines the extent to which…
Descriptors: Singing, Music, Anxiety, Rating Scales
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Nancy C. Marencin; Ashley A. Edwards; Nicole Patton Terry – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2024
Purpose: We investigated and compared the outcomes from two standardized, norm-referenced screening assessments of language (i.e., Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals Preschool--Second Edition [CELFP-2], Diagnostic Evaluation of Language Variation--Screening Test [DELV-ST]) with African American preschoolers whose spoken dialect differed…
Descriptors: African American Students, Preschool Children, Black Dialects, Diagnostic Tests