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Kelly, Kate Tremain; Richardson, Mary; Isaacs, Talia – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2022
Comparative judgment is gaining popularity as an assessment tool, including for high-stakes testing purposes, despite relatively little research on the use of the technique. Advocates claim two main rationales for its use: that comparative judgment is valid because humans are better at comparative than absolute judgment, and because it distils the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Evaluative Thinking, High Stakes Tests
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Elif Sari; Turgay Han – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2024
Background: With the growing trend of integrating technology into teaching environments, using Automated Writing Evaluation (AWE) in writing instruction has been extensively studied over the last two decades. The studies on AWE mostly investigated its impact on students' writing proficiencies and revealed conflicting results. However, very few…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Miller, Scott A. – Infant and Child Development, 2013
This research examined children's performance on second-order false belief tasks as a function of the content area for the belief and the method of assessing understanding. A total of 70 kindergarten and first-grade children responded to four second-order stories. On two stories, the task was to judge a belief about a belief, and on two, the…
Descriptors: Young Children, Kindergarten, Elementary School Students, Grade 1
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Cebula, Katie R. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2012
Psychosocial adjustment in siblings of children with autism whose families were using a home-based, applied behavior analysis (ABA) program was compared to that of siblings in families who were not using any intensive autism intervention. Data gathered from parents, siblings and teachers indicated that siblings in ABA families experienced neither…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Siblings, Intervention, Autism
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Bridge, Jeffrey A.; McBee-Strayer, Sandra M.; Cannon, Elizabeth A.; Sheftall, Arielle H.; Reynolds, Brady; Campo, John V.; Pajer, Kathleen A.; Barbe, Remy P.; Brent, David A. – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2012
Objective: Decision-making deficits have been linked to suicidal behavior in adults. However, it remains unclear whether impaired decision making plays a role in the etiopathogenesis of youth suicidal behavior. The purpose of this study was to examine decision-making processes in adolescent suicide attempters and never-suicidal comparison…
Descriptors: Conceptual Tempo, Suicide, Identification, Personality
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Caglayan, Gunhan; Olive, John – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2010
This study examines eighth grade students' use of a representational metaphor (cups and tiles) for writing and solving equations in one unknown. Within this study, we focused on the obstacles and difficulties that students experienced when using this metaphor, with particular emphasis on the operations that can be meaningfully represented through…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Figurative Language, Grade 8, Equations (Mathematics)
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Brock, Rebecca L.; Barry, Robin A.; Lawrence, Erika; Dey, Jodi; Rolffs, Jaci – Assessment, 2012
This study examined the psychometric equivalence of paper-and-pencil and Internet formats of key questionnaires used in couple research. Self-report questionnaires assessing interpersonal constructs (relationship satisfaction, communication/conflict management, partner support, emotional intimacy) and intrapersonal constructs (individual traits,…
Descriptors: Satisfaction, Conflict, Intimacy, Questionnaires
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Burkitt, Esther; Barrett, Martyn – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2010
This study assessed children's graphic flexibility and their ability to report on their use of drawing strategies when drawing characterized figures. 253 children (129 boys, 124 girls) aged between 4 years 3 months and 11 year 10 months formed three groups, either drawing a man, a dog or a tree. Each group was asked to draw three emotionally…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Cognitive Development, Recall (Psychology), Children
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Crooke, Alexander Hew Dale; McFerran, Katrina Skewes – Australian Journal of Music Education, 2014
The potential for music programs to promote psychosocial wellbeing in mainstream schools is recognised in both policy and research literature. Despite this recognition, there is a dearth of consistent research evidence supporting this link. Authors attribute this lack of consistent evidence to limitations in the areas of research design and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music Education, Well Being, Psychological Patterns
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Frottier, Patrick; Koenig, Franz; Seyringer, Michaela; Matschnig, Teresa; Fruehwald, Stefan – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2009
The "Viennese Instrument for Suicidality in Correctional Institutions" (VISCI) presented here is based on the results of a large case-control study and on research on literature examining suicide prevention in general and in the prison population in particular. The aim of this study was to validate the properties of the VISCI to differentiate…
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, Prevention, Suicide, Institutionalized Persons
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Carter, Robert T.; Pieterse, Alex L.; Smith, Sidney, III – Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, 2008
The relationship between Black adult racial identity status profiles and anger expression was examined. Two profiles, Undifferentiated and Immersion-Emersion, emerged. A comparison of modes of anger expression revealed that the Immersion-Emersion dominant profile was associated with higher scores on Anger-Out and lower scores on Anger-Control.…
Descriptors: Racial Identification, Profiles, African Americans, Psychological Patterns
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Dockray, Samantha; Grant, Nina; Stone, Arthur A.; Kahneman, Daniel; Wardle, Jane; Steptoe, Andrew – Social Indicators Research, 2010
Measurement of affective states in everyday life is of fundamental importance in many types of quality of life, health, and psychological research. Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) is the recognized method of choice, but the respondent burden can be high. The day reconstruction method (DRM) was developed by Kahneman and colleagues ("Science,"…
Descriptors: Employed Women, Quality of Life, Evaluation Methods, Psychological Patterns
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Bedek, Michael; Seitlinger, Paul; Kopeinik, Simone; Albert, Dietrich – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2012
Digital educational games (DEGs) possess the potential of providing an appealing and intrinsically motivating learning context. Usually this potential is either taken for granted or examined through questionnaires or interviews in the course of evaluation studies. However, an "adaptive" game would increase the probability of a DEG being…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Games, Computer Games, Computer Simulation
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Taft, Casey T.; Watkins, Laura E.; Stafford, Jane; Street, Amy E.; Monson, Candice M. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2011
Objective: The authors conducted a meta-analysis of empirical studies investigating associations between indices of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and intimate relationship problems to empirically synthesize this literature. Method: A literature search using PsycINFO, Medline, Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress (PILOTS),…
Descriptors: Aggression, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Doctoral Dissertations, Error of Measurement
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Ungar, Michael; Liebenberg, Linda – Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 2011
An international team of investigators in 11 countries have worked collaboratively to develop a culturally and contextually relevant measure of youth resilience, the Child and Youth Resilience Measure (CYRM-28). The team used a mixed methods design that facilitated understanding of both common and unique aspects of resilience across cultures.…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Resilience (Psychology), Cultural Differences, Cross Cultural Studies
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