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Gu, Zhengguo; Emons, Wilco H. M.; Sijtsma, Klaas – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2021
Clinical, medical, and health psychologists use difference scores obtained from pretest--posttest designs employing the same test to assess intraindividual change possibly caused by an intervention addressing, for example, anxiety, depression, eating disorder, or addiction. Reliability of difference scores is important for interpreting observed…
Descriptors: Test Reliability, Scores, Pretests Posttests, Computation
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Walker, Cindy M.; Göçer Sahin, Sakine – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2020
The purpose of this study was to investigate a new way of evaluating interrater reliability that can allow one to determine if two raters differ with respect to their rating on a polytomous rating scale or constructed response item. Specifically, differential item functioning (DIF) analyses were used to assess interrater reliability and compared…
Descriptors: Test Bias, Interrater Reliability, Responses, Correlation
Cromley, Jennifer G.; Dai, Ting; Fechter, Tia; Nelson, Frank E.; Van Boekel, Martin; Du, Yang – Grantee Submission, 2021
Making inferences and reasoning with new scientific information is critical for successful performance in biology coursework. Thus, identifying students who are weak in these skills could allow the early provision of additional support and course placement recommendations to help students develop their reasoning abilities, leading to better…
Descriptors: Science Tests, Multiple Choice Tests, Logical Thinking, Inferences
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Demir, Ergul – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2018
Purpose: The answer-copying tendency has the potential to detect suspicious answer patterns for prior distributions of statistical detection techniques. The aim of this study is to develop a valid and reliable measurement tool as a scale in order to observe the tendency of university students' copying of answers. Also, it is aimed to provide…
Descriptors: College Students, Cheating, Test Construction, Student Behavior
Nilsen, Trude; Slot, Pauline; Cigler, Hynek; Chen, Minge – OECD Publishing, 2020
Situational Judgement Questions (SJQs) measuring process quality were included in the OECD Starting Strong Teaching and Learning International Survey 2018 (TALIS Starting Strong 2018) to address concerns of self-report bias in large-scale international surveys. These SJQs provide the staff in early childhood education and care with situations…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Situational Tests, Administrator Surveys, Teacher Surveys
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Rios, Joseph A.; Sparks, Jesse R.; Zhang, Mo; Liu, Ou Lydia – ETS Research Report Series, 2017
Proficiency with written communication (WC) is critical for success in college and careers. As a result, institutions face a growing challenge to accurately evaluate their students' writing skills to obtain data that can support demands of accreditation, accountability, or curricular improvement. Many current standardized measures, however, lack…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Writing Tests, College Outcomes Assessment
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Dahlke, Katie; Yang, Rui; Martínez, Carmen; Chavez, Suzette; Martin, Alejandra; Hawkinson, Laura; Shields, Joseph; Garland, Marshall; Carle, Jill – Regional Educational Laboratory Southwest, 2017
The New Mexico Public Education Department developed the Kindergarten Observation Tool (KOT) as a multidimensional observational measure of students' knowledge and skills at kindergarten entry. The primary purpose of the KOT is to inform instruction, so that kindergarten teachers can use the information about their students' knowledge and skills…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Observation, Measures (Individuals), Kindergarten
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Liu, Ou Lydia; Mao, Liyang; Zhao, Tingting; Yang, Yi; Xu, Jun; Wang, Zhen – ETS Research Report Series, 2016
Chinese higher education is experiencing rapid development and growth. With tremendous resources invested in higher education, policy makers have requested more direct evidence of student learning. However, assessment tools that can be used to measure college-level learning are scarce in China. To mitigate this situation, we translated the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Critical Thinking, College Students
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Zhang, Xijuan; Savalei, Victoria – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2016
Many psychological scales written in the Likert format include reverse worded (RW) items in order to control acquiescence bias. However, studies have shown that RW items often contaminate the factor structure of the scale by creating one or more method factors. The present study examines an alternative scale format, called the Expanded format,…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Psychological Testing, Alternative Assessment, Test Items
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Dodeen, Hamzeh – Educational Assessment, 2013
Students' opinions continue to be a significant factor in the evaluation of teaching in higher education institutions. The purpose of this study was to psychometrically assess short students evaluation of teaching (SET) forms using the UAE University form as a model. The study evaluated the form validity, reliability, the overall question, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Test Validity, Test Reliability
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Gill, Brian; Shoji, Megan; Coen, Thomas; Place, Kate – Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, 2016
School districts and states across the Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic Region and the country as a whole have been modifying their teacher evaluation systems to identify more effective and less effective teachers and provide better feedback to improve instructional practice. The new systems typically include components related to…
Descriptors: Predictive Validity, Test Bias, Test Content, School Districts
ACT, Inc., 2013
This manual contains information about the American College Test (ACT) Plan® program. The principal focus of this manual is to document the Plan program's technical adequacy in light of its intended purposes. This manual supersedes the 2011 edition. The content of this manual responds to requirements of the testing industry as established in the…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Formative Evaluation, Evaluation Research, Test Bias
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Sato, Edynn; Rabinowitz, Stanley; Gallagher, Carole; Huang, Chun-Wei – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2010
This study examined the effect of linguistic modification on middle school students' ability to show what they know and can do on math assessments. REL West's study on middle school math assessment accommodations found that simplifying the language--or linguistic modification--on standardized math test items made it easier for English Language…
Descriptors: Test Items, Standardized Tests, Mathematics Tests, Testing Accommodations
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Frary, Robert B.; Zimmerman, Donald W. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1984
The correlation between bias components of test scores and unbiased observed scores is shown to be an effective predictor of changes in reliability and validity resulting from elimination of bias. Plausible assumptions about value of correlation and size of related variance components indicate that reducation in reliability and validity is a…
Descriptors: Correlation, Scores, Test Bias, Test Reliability
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Stricker, Lawrence J. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1974
Descriptors: Correlation, Factor Analysis, Individual Differences, Personality Measures
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