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Tenko Raykov; Bingsheng Zhang – Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2024
Multidimensional measuring instruments are often used in behavioral, social, educational, marketing, and biomedical research. For these scales, the paper discusses how to find the optimal score based on their components that is associated with the highest possible reliability. Within the framework of structural equation modeling, an approach to…
Descriptors: Multidimensional Scaling, Measurement Equipment, Measurement Techniques, Test Reliability
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Finch, Holmes – Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 2022
Researchers in many disciplines work with ranking data. This data type is unique in that it is often deterministic in nature (the ranks of items "k"-1 determine the rank of item "k"), and the difference in a pair of rank scores separated by "k" units is equivalent regardless of the actual values of the two ranks in…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Statistical Inference, Models, College Faculty
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Hurtado, Sylvia; Pryor, John H. – College and University, 2011
The primary users of the current college ranking systems do not seem to be high-school students and families, but college presidents, board members, and development officers. As structured, the commercial ranking systems imply a precision that is not corroborated by research on what matters in college, nor can college quality be accurately summed…
Descriptors: College Choice, Educational Quality, Program Effectiveness, School Effectiveness
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Galaczi, Evelina D.; ffrench, Angela; Hubbard, Chris; Green, Anthony – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2011
The process of constructing assessment scales for performance testing is complex and multi-dimensional. As a result, a number of different approaches, both empirically and intuitively based, are open to developers. In this paper we outline the approach taken in the revision of a set of assessment scales used with speaking tests, and present the…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Research Methodology, Foreign Countries, Statistical Analysis
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Derrington, Mary Lynne; Sanders, Kellie – AASA Journal of Scholarship & Practice, 2011
A disconnect exists between principal leadership expectations and the actual practice of supervision and evaluation of principals. Increased principal responsibilities and rigorous standards require that a new approach to principal evaluation be considered. The authors provide a framework for a multi-dimensional approach to principal supervision…
Descriptors: Supervisor Supervisee Relationship, Leadership, Principals, Administrator Evaluation
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Rahman, Anna N.; Applebaum, Robert A. – Gerontologist, 2009
The Minimum Data Set (MDS) is a uniform instrument used in nursing homes to assess residents. In January 2008, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services published a draft of a new MDS--version 3.0. This article traces the instrument's development and the design decisions that shaped it, discusses the MDS's manifest functions--data collection…
Descriptors: Nursing Homes, Data, Quality of Life, Total Quality Management
Baber, Lorenzo D.; Castro, Erin L.; Bragg, Debra D. – Office of Community College Research and Leadership, 2010
The purpose of this brief is to understand the Illinois College and Career Readiness (CCR) Act in light of David Conley's college readiness model. Although not mentioned specifically by the Illinois statute, evaluation results gathered by the Office of Community College Research and Leadership (OCCRL) show alignment between a number of programs…
Descriptors: College Preparation, Evaluation Methods, School Readiness, Readiness
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Chaaban, Jad M. – Social Indicators Research, 2009
This paper develops an empirical methodology for the construction of a synthetic multi-dimensional cross-country comparison of the performance of governments around the world in improving the livelihood of their younger population. The devised "Youth Welfare Index" is based on the nonparametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) methodology and…
Descriptors: Nonparametric Statistics, Research Methodology, Evaluation Methods, Comparative Education
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Kim, Se-Kang; Davison, Mark L.; Frisby, Craig L. – Multivariate Behavioral Research, 2007
This paper describes the Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) parameterization of the Profile Analysis via Multidimensional Scaling (PAMS) model to demonstrate validation of profile pattern hypotheses derived from multidimensional scaling (MDS). Profile Analysis via Multidimensional Scaling (PAMS) is an exploratory method for identifying major…
Descriptors: Profiles, Factor Analysis, Multidimensional Scaling, Evaluation Methods
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Hahs-Vaughn, Debbie; Zygouris-Coe, Vicky; Fiedler, Rebecca – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2007
Online professional development is multidimensional. It encompasses: a) an online, web-based format; b) professional development; and most likely c) specific objectives tailored to and created for the respective online professional development course. Evaluating online professional development is therefore also multidimensional and as such both…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Online Courses, Blended Learning, Evaluation Methods
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McMahon, Tim; Barrett, Terry; O'Neill, Geraldine – Teaching in Higher Education, 2007
This paper begins by reviewing some of the different models of third-party observation of university teaching that can be found in the literature. Having analysed these, it argues that--if "peer" is taken to indicate equality of status--only one is genuinely a model of peer-observation. It proposes an alternative categorisation of third-party…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Classroom Observation Techniques, Multidimensional Scaling, Peer Evaluation
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Sireci, Stephen G. – Educational Assessment, 1998
Describes content-validity theory and illustrates new and traditional approaches for conducting content-validity studies. Newer approaches are based on multidimensional scaling analysis of item-similarity ratings, while traditional approaches are based on ratings of item-objective congruence and relevance. (Author/SLD)
Descriptors: Content Validity, Data Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Multidimensional Scaling
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Goldman, Mark S.; Darkes, Jack – Psychological Assessment, 2004
Despite several decades of activity, alcohol expectancy research has yet to merge measurement approaches with developing memory theory. This article offers an expectancy assessment approach built on a conceptualization of expectancy as an information processing network. The authors began with multidimensional scaling models of expectancy space,…
Descriptors: Memory, Information Processing, Multidimensional Scaling, Expectation
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Rosas, Scott R. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2005
The emergence of theory-driven evaluation has drawn attention to the need for practical ways for evaluators to construct program theory to achieve the benefits of the approach. This article illustrates the use of concept mapping as a technique to explicate underlying program theory in the context of family support programs. In this example, 29…
Descriptors: Family Support, Professional Personnel, Evaluators, Multidimensional Scaling
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McMillen, Paula; Deitering, Anne-Marie – Public Services Quarterly, 2007
Since 2001, librarians at Oregon State University's Valley Library have been working to build a "teaching library" supported by a clearly articulated instruction program. From the start, we believed that we needed to assess the teaching library's impact, not only to determine the success or failure of our efforts but also to demonstrate…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Information Literacy, Library Instruction, Teaching Methods
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