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Xin Lin; Sarah R. Powell – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2024
Developing mathematics proficiency requires an understanding of mathematics vocabulary. Although previous research has developed several measures of mathematics vocabulary at different grade levels, no study focused solely on fraction vocabularies. We developed and tested a measure of fraction vocabulary for students in Grade 4 to determine the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Mathematics Skills, Fractions, Vocabulary
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Kim, Hun Ju; Lee, Sung Ja; Kam, Kyung-Yoon – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2023
This study verified validity and reliability of the School Function Assessment (SFA) using Rasch analysis in South Korean school-based occupational therapy sites serving children with intellectual disabilities and others. Participants were 103 elementary school children (grades 1 through 6) with disabilities. Rasch analysis revealed several…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Test Validity, Test Reliability, Occupational Therapy
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Tim Jacobbe; Bob delMas; Brad Hartlaub; Jeff Haberstroh; Catherine Case; Steven Foti; Douglas Whitaker – Numeracy, 2023
The development of assessments as part of the funded LOCUS project is described. The assessments measure students' conceptual understanding of statistics as outlined in the GAISE PreK-12 Framework. Results are reported from a large-scale administration to 3,430 students in grades 6 through 12 in the United States. Items were designed to assess…
Descriptors: Statistics Education, Common Core State Standards, Student Evaluation, Elementary School Students
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Hartono, Wahyu; Hadi, Samsul; Rosnawati, Raden; Retnawati, Heri – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2023
Researchers design diagnostic assessments to measure students' knowledge structures and processing skills to provide information about their cognitive attribute. The purpose of this study is to determine the instrument's validity and score reliability, as well as to investigate the use of classical test theory to identify item characteristics. The…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Test Validity, Item Response Theory, Content Validity
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Jéldrez, Elvira; Cain, Kate; Silva, Macarena; Strasser, Katherine – Reading Psychology, 2023
Reading motivation is multidimensional and a critical contributor to students' reading comprehension skill. Its multidimensionality is problematic, as there is currently no consensus on the dimensions underlying reading motivation, which are being tested through a variety of instruments that lack statistical validation. Our goal was to discuss the…
Descriptors: Reading Motivation, Test Validity, Test Reliability, Factor Structure
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Bozdag, Hüseyin Cihan; Türkoguz, Suat – International Online Journal of Primary Education, 2021
The study determines the conceptual understanding levels of primary school students on the concept of light according to the Rasch Model with a Four-tier Light Conceptual Understanding Test (LCUT). The participants were 355 (164 girls and 191 boys) primary school students studying at a public school in Izmir city center. In the study, the Rasch…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Item Response Theory
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Saglam, Abdulkadir; Yüksel, Ibrahim; Erbasan, Ömer – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2021
The aim of the study is to develop an achievement test consisting of the questions in verbal intelligence games whose validity and reliability have been ensured and which are in accordance with the learning outcomes of the states of substance and knowing the properties of substance via the five senses taking place in the unit "Let's Know…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Test Construction
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Guven Demir, Elif; Öksuz, Yücel – Participatory Educational Research, 2022
This research aimed to investigate animation-based achievement tests according to the item format, psychometric features, students' performance, and gender. The study sample consisted of 52 fifth-grade students in Samsun/Turkey in 2017-2018. Measures of the research were open-ended (OE), animation-based open-ended (AOE), multiple-choice (MC), and…
Descriptors: Animation, Achievement Tests, Test Items, Psychometrics
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Rintayati, Peduk; Lukitasari, Hafizhah; Syawaludin, Ahmad – International Journal of Instruction, 2021
Assessment of higher-order thinking skills (HOTS) provides few opportunities for students to develop more in-depth knowledge, serving students' ability to identify and solve their problems. One type of instrument for measuring HOTS objectively is the two-tier multiple-choice test (TTMCT). This research is part of the research and development…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Thinking Skills, Multiple Choice Tests
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Park, Eun-Young; Seo, Hyojeong; Blair, Kwang-Sun Cho; Kang, Min-Chae – SAGE Open, 2021
This study examined the validity of the Korean version of the Child Behavior Checklist (K-CBCL) with 180 children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in South Korea. Rasch analysis was applied to examine item fit, item difficulty, suitability of the response scale, and person and item separation indices of the K-CBCL. The results indicated that,…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Foreign Countries, Child Behavior
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Özdemir, Ezgi Çetinkaya; Akyol, Hayati – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2019
Reading comprehension has an important place in lifelong learning. It is an interactive process between the reader and the text. Students need reading comprehension skills at all educational levels and for all school subjects. Determining the level of students' reading comprehension skills is the subject of testing and evaluation. Tests used to…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Test Construction, Grade 4
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Sarwanto; Fajari, Laksmi Evasufi Widi; Chumdari – International Journal of Instruction, 2021
Critical thinking skills are the 21st-century life skills that are needed by students. However, in elementary schools, there are no instruments that are truly effective and efficient to measure critical thinking skills. This research aims to develop an open-ended question assessment instrument to measure students' critical-thinking skills, to test…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Teaching Methods, Questioning Techniques
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Weinberg, Paul J. – Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research, 2019
Reasoning about mechanism is central to disciplined inquiry in science and engineering and should thus be one of the foundations of a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education. In addition, mechanistic reasoning is one of the core competencies listed in the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) Engineering Concepts and…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Engineering Education, Equipment, Elementary School Students
Chen, Guanhua – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This study is part of a larger design study that iteratively improves a robotics programming curriculum as well as a computational thinking (CT) instrument. Its focus was majorly on CT assessment and particularly on an online CT instrument with logging functionality that can store a student's problem-solving process by recording interactions…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Test Construction, Cognitive Tests, Computer Assisted Testing
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Shamir, Haya – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2018
Assessing students' emerging literacy skills is crucial for identifying areas where a child may be falling behind and can lead directly to an increased chance of reading success. The Waterford Assessment of Core Skills (WACS), a computerized adaptive test of early literacy for students in prekindergarten through 2nd grade, addresses this need.…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Adaptive Testing, Reading Tests, Preschool Children
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