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Dynamic Testing of Learning Potential of Children with Moderate to Severe Intellectual Disabilities: A Delphi Study
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M. L. Eding; M. Meeter; C. Schuengel – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2025
Education of children with moderate to severe intellectual disabilities requires adequate assessment of their educational needs and potential to learn. Dynamic testing using analogical reasoning tasks may be a promising way to perform such an assessment. However, it remains unclear how dynamic testing with these children may be done in practice.…
Descriptors: Delphi Technique, Moderate Intellectual Disability, Severe Intellectual Disability, Foreign Countries
A Brief Note on Evidence-Centered Design as a Mechanism for Assessment Development and Evaluation
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Bond, Lloyd – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2014
Lloyd Bond comments here on the Focus article in this issue of "Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives". The Focus article is entitled: "How Task Features Impact Evidence from Assessments Embedded in Simulations and Games" (Russell G. Almond, Yoon Jeon Kim, Gertrudes Velasquez, and Valerie J. Shute). Bond…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Task Analysis, Models, Design
The Application of Cognitive Diagnostic Approaches via Neural Network Analysis of Serious Educational Games
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Lamb, Richard L. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Serious Educational Games (SEGs) have been a topic of increased popularity within the educational realm since the early millennia. SEGs are generalized form of Serious Games to mean games for purposes other than entertainment but, that also specifically include training, educational purpose and pedagogy within their design. This rise in popularity…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Models, Artificial Intelligence, Neurological Organization
A Pilot Study of Higher-Order Thinking Skills Assessment Techniques in Science and Mathematics--Part I and Pilot-Tested Tasks--Part II. Final Report.
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Blumberg, Fran; And Others – 1986
In the 21st century, the population will need to possess basic skills in the areas of communication and higher problem-solving as well as have scientific and technological literacy; however, results from assessments by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) have indicated weak student performance in the area of thinking skills,…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education
Transitive Inferences within Seriation Problems Assessed by Explanations, Judgments, and Strategies.
Moore, Gary W. – 1978
A study was designed to develop an instrument and methodological procedure to assess transitive relations within seriation problems in elementary school children using three criteria: explanations, judgments, and strategies. A secondary analysis to assess transitivity used the three criteria according to whether the children were conservers, in…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation
Job Entry Level Competencies of a One Year Barber School Graduate. Final Report.
Swerman, Richard A.; Wurtzel, Norbert K. – 1977
To determine the competency level required of a one-year graduate from barber school and to obtain information that would enable vocational-technical schools to plan their curriculum to better meet student barber needs, a survey was conducted in Wisconsin of 629 barber shop managers, 75 journeymen, and 200 apprentices. Picked at random, these…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Barbers, Certification, Competency Based Education