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Nguyen, Mike Hoa; Ramirez, Joseph J.; Laderman, Sophia – Educational Researcher, 2023
Minority-serving institutions (MSIs) are unique in their ability to support the educational advancement of students of color. Approximately one in five postsecondary institutions are eligible for funding under an MSI designation, yet more than half of all undergraduate students of color are enrolled in such colleges and universities. However,…
Descriptors: Minority Serving Institutions, Institutional Characteristics, Definitions, Classification
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Kane, Michael T. – Educational Researcher, 2008
Lissitz and Samuelsen (2007) have proposed an operational definition of "validity" that shifts many of the questions traditionally considered under validity to a separate category associated with the utility of test use. Operational definitions support inferences about how well people perform some kind of task or how they respond to some kind of…
Descriptors: Test Use, Definitions, Validity, Classification
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Hoge, Robert D. – Educational Researcher, 1988
Questions the adequacy with which the giftedness construct is defined in applied educational settings, and the adequacy of the validation data available for these gifted identification procedures. (Author/BJV)
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Classification, Construct Validity, Data Interpretation