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Download full textAudrey Amrein-Beardsley; Zarrina T. Azizova; Norman P. Gibbs; Chukwu Ikegwuonu; Jeongeun Kim; Deborah Michele La Torre; Matthew R. Lavery; Margarita Pivovarova; Yi Zheng – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2025
In response to a call for research on using the SATs and ACTs for U.S.-based college and university admissions, researchers systematically interrogated the literature surrounding both tests, using a framework for validity evidence built upon the "Standards of Educational and Psychological Testing" and Kane's contemporary view of…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Test Validity, Psychometrics, Decision Making
Mucuk, Makbule Duran; Sahin, Ekrem Sedat – African Educational Research Journal, 2023
The aim of this study was to develop a valid and reliable measurement instrument to find out adolescents' relative deprivation levels and to determine the statistical characteristics of the instrument. The Relative Deprivation Scale-Adolescent Form was prepared and applied to 586 adolescents within the scope of the study. Exploratory Factor…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Disadvantaged, Psychometrics, Test Validity
Direct linkAlane Soares Lockwood – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Closing equity gaps in student outcomes has been a key part of the national agenda in postsecondary education the last two decades as goals to increase the number of college graduates coincides with an increasing number, and future majority, of students from historically marginalized communities. Impactful support programs for students from…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Outcomes of Education, Postsecondary Education, Disadvantaged
Laura Nathans; Oluwatobi Mogbojuri; Emmanuel Addai; Bridget Walsh; Matthew Aguirre; Julie Lucero; Keira Hambrick – SAGE Open, 2024
This study involved development and validation of the Family Involvement in Graduate School measure, the first instrument to measure involvement of family in graduate students' educational process. The measure was originally designed with six subscales. It was developed based on Hoover-Dempsey et al.'s model of parent involvement. Feedback on the…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Factor Analysis, Family Involvement
Soomro, Kamal Ahmed; Kale, Ugur; Curtis, Reagan; Akcaoglu, Mete; Bernstein, Malayna – Education and Information Technologies, 2018
The phenomenon of "digital divide" is complex and multidimensional, extending beyond issues of physical access. The purpose of this study was to develop a scale to measure a range of factors related to digital divide among higher education faculty and to evaluate its reliability and validity. Faculty's Information and Communication…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, College Faculty, Disadvantaged, Measures (Individuals)
Matthew J. Salganik; Ian Lundberg; Alexander T. Kindel; Caitlin E. Ahearn; Khaled Al-Ghoneim; Abdullah Almaatouq; Drew M. Altschul; Jennie E. Brand; Nicole Bohme Carnegie; Ryan James Compton; Debanjan Datta; Thomas Davidson; Anna Filippova; Connor Gilroy; Brian J. Goode; Eaman Jahani; Ridhi Kashyap; Antje Kirchner; Stephen McKay; Allison C. Morgan; Alex Pentland; Kivan Polimis; Louis Raes; Daniel E. Rigobon; Claudia V. Roberts; Diana M. Stanescu; Yoshihiko Suhara; Adaner Usmani; Erik H. Wang; Muna Adem; Abdulla Alhajri; Bedoor AlShebli; Redwane Amin; Ryan B. Amos; Lisa P. Argyle; Livia Baer-Bositis; Moritz Büchi; Bo-Ryehn Chung; William Eggert; Gregory Faletto; Zhilin Fan; Jeremy Freese; Tejomay Gadgil; Josh Gagné; Yue Gao; Andrew Halpern-Manners; Sonia P. Hashim; Sonia Hausen; Guanhua He; Kimberly Higuera; Bernie Hogan; Ilana M. Horwitz; Lisa M. Hummel; Naman Jain; Kun Jin; David Jurgens; Patrick Kaminski; Areg Karapetyan; E. H. Kim; Ben Leizman; Naijia Liu; Malte Möser; Andrew E. Mack; Mayank Mahajan; Noah Mandell; Helge Marahrens; Diana Mercado-Garcia; Viola Mocz; Katariina Mueller-Gastell; Ahmed Musse; Qiankun Niu; William Nowak; Hamidreza Omidvar; Andrew Or; Karen Ouyang; Katy M. Pinto; Ethan Porter; Kristin E. Porter; Crystal Qian; Tamkinat Rauf; Anahit Sargsyan; Thomas Schaffner; Landon Schnabel; Bryan Schonfeld; Ben Sender; Jonathan D. Tang; Emma Tsurkov; Austin van Loon; Onur Varol; Xiafei Wang; Zhi Wang; Julia Wang; Flora Wang; Samantha Weissman; Kirstie Whitaker; Maria K. Wolters; Wei Lee Woon; James Wu; Catherine Wu; Kengran Yang; Jingwen Yin; Bingyu Zhao; Chenyun Zhu; Jeanne Brooks-Gunn; Barbara E. Engelhardt; Moritz Hardt; Dean Knox; Karen Levy; Arvind Narayanan; Brandon M. Stewart; Duncan J. Watts; Sara McLanahan – Grantee Submission, 2020
How predictable are life trajectories? We investigated this question with a scientific mass collaboration using the common task method; 160 teams built predictive models for six life outcomes using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a high-quality birth cohort study. Despite using a rich dataset and applying machine-learning…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Family Life, Quality of Life, Disadvantaged
Toker, Deniz – TESL-EJ, 2019
The central purpose of this paper is to examine validity problems arising from the multiple-choice items and technical passages in the Test of English as a Foreign Language Internet-based Test (TOEFL iBT) reading section, primarily concentrating on construct-irrelevant variance (Messick, 1989). My personal TOEFL iBT experience, along with my…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Computer Assisted Testing
Diemer, Matthew A.; Rapa, Luke J.; Park, Catalina J.; Perry, Justin C. – Youth & Society, 2017
This article details the development and validation of a measure of critical consciousness, defined as the capacity of oppressed or marginalized people to critically analyze their social and political conditions, endorsement of societal equality, and action to change perceived inequities. In Study 1, an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) was…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Test Construction, Test Validity, Factor Analysis
Miguel Baptista Nunes Ed.; Pedro Isaias Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2022
These proceedings contain the papers of the 16th International Conference on e-Learning (EL 2022), which was organised by the International Association for Development of the Information Society, 19-21 July, 2022. This conference is part of the 16th Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 2022, 19-22 July, which had a total of…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Educational Technology, COVID-19
Gaudreault, Karen Lux; Richards, K. Andrew R.; Mays Woods, Amelia – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2017
Qualitative research conducted through occupational socialization theory has documented that physical educators feel marginalized and isolated in schools. We sought to propose and provide initial evidence of validity and reliability for the Physical Education Marginalization and Isolation Survey (PE-MAIS). Physical educators (n = 420) completed an…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Factor Structure, Physical Education, Socialization
Dockery, Alfred M.; Seymour, Richard; Koshy, Paul – Studies in Higher Education, 2016
As with other countries, Australia has been grappling with the identification, measurement and impact of disadvantage in higher education. In particular, the measurement of socio-economic status (SES) has been of central concern. The immediate solution in Australia has been the introduction of an "area" measure in which students' SES is…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Comparative Analysis, Disadvantaged, Socioeconomic Status
Misconceptions about the Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test: A Commentary of Concerns and Disagreements
Naglieri, Jack A.; Ford, Donna Y. – Roeper Review, 2015
Black and Hispanic students are undeniably underidentified as gifted and underrepresented in gifted education. The underrepresentation of the two largest groups of "minority" students is long-standing, dating several decades, and is a serious area of contention. Most debates focus on the efficacy of traditional intelligence tests with…
Descriptors: Misconceptions, Nonverbal Ability, Ability, Ability Identification
Ehrlich, Stacy B.; Pacchiano, Debra M.; Stein, Amanda G.; Luppescu, Stuart – University of Chicago Consortium on School Research, 2016
Decades of research evidence indicate that high-quality early education can positively affect the learning trajectories of disadvantaged young children. However, despite significant investments to improve what happens in the classroom, publicly funded pre-kindergarten programs continue to display instructional quality that is too weak to prepare…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Early Experience, Disadvantaged, Teacher Surveys
Peer reviewedAdler, Sol – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1973
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth, Examiners, Exceptional Child Education
Wolf, Judith G.; Sylves, David – 1975
The purpose of this study is the substantiation of the use of selective cognitive and affective measures for effective identification of degree and level of academic disadvantagement of Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP) students in New York State. This was accomplished by investigating the relationship between academic efficiency (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Diagnostic Tests
