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An, Lily Shiao; Ho, Andrew Dean; Davis, Laurie Laughlin – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2022
Technical documentation for educational tests focuses primarily on properties of individual scores at single points in time. Reliability, standard errors of measurement, item parameter estimates, fit statistics, and linking constants are standard technical features that external stakeholders use to evaluate items and individual scale scores.…
Descriptors: Documentation, Scores, Evaluation Methods, Longitudinal Studies
Shute, Valerie J.; Moore, Gregory R.; Wang, Lubin – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2015
We are using stealth assessment, embedded in "Plants vs. Zombies 2," to measure middle-school students' problem solving skills. This project started by developing a problem solving competency model based on a thorough review of the literature. Next, we identified relevant in-game indicators that would provide evidence about students'…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Problem Solving, Educational Games, Bayesian Statistics
Creswell, John W. – Pearson Education, Inc., 2015
"Educational Research: Planning, Conducting, and Evaluating Quantitative and Qualitative Research" offers a truly balanced, inclusive, and integrated overview of the processes involved in educational research. This text first examines the general steps in the research process and then details the procedures for conducting specific types…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Qualitative Research, Statistical Analysis, Research Methodology
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Kelly-Riley, Diane; Elliot, Norbert; Rudniy, Alex – International Journal of ePortfolio, 2016
This research focuses on ePortfolio assessment strategies that yield important accountability and reporting information. Under foundational categories of reliability, validity, and fairness, we present methods of gathering evidence from ePortfolio scores and their relationship to demographic information (gender, race/ethnicity, and socio-economic…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Portfolio Assessment, Evaluation Methods, Accountability
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Lei, Wu; Qing, Fang; Zhou, Jin – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2016
There are usually limited user evaluation of resources on a recommender system, which caused an extremely sparse user rating matrix, and this greatly reduce the accuracy of personalized recommendation, especially for new users or new items. This paper presents a recommendation method based on rating prediction using causal association rules.…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Attribution Theory, Correlation, Evaluation Methods
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Thorpe, Angie; Lukes, Ria; Bever, Diane J.; He, Yan – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2016
In an age of assessment and accountability, academic libraries feel much pressure to prove their value according to new university measurements of student success. This study describes a methodology for how libraries may examine student interactions with services to assess whether library usage impacts student grade point averages (GPAs) and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Academic Achievement, Success, Measurement
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Kavgaoglu, Derya; Alci, Bülent – Educational Research and Reviews, 2016
The goal of this research which was carried out in reputable dedicated call centres within the Turkish telecommunication sector aims is to evaluate competence-based curriculums designed by means of internal funding through Stufflebeam's context, input, process, product (CIPP) model. In the research, a general scanning pattern in the scope of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evaluation Methods, Models, Curriculum Evaluation
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DiCerbo, Kristen E. – Educational Technology & Society, 2014
Interest in 21st century skills has brought concomitant interest in ways to teach and measure them. Games hold promise in these areas, but much of their potential has yet to be proven, and there are few examples of how to use the rich data from games to make inferences about players' knowledge, skills, and attributes. This article builds an…
Descriptors: Persistence, Evaluation Methods, Data Collection, Measurement Techniques
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Wu, Bian; Hu, Yiling; Gu, Xiaoqing; Lim, Cher Ping – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2016
As information and communication technology (ICT) continues to develop, it is essential for teachers to acquire ability for teaching with ICT. In China, new higher education (HE) teachers often lack teaching experience because there are limited teaching opportunities during their postgraduate studies. This status quo may compromise the quality of…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Higher Education, Beginning Teachers, College Faculty
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Lampi, Katja M.; Banerjee, P. Nina; Gissler, Mika; Hinkka-Yli-Salomaki, Susanna; Huttunen, Jukka; Kulmala, Ulla; Lindroos, Jarna; Niemela, Solja; Rihko, Maria; Ristkari, Terja; Saanakorpi, Kristiina; Sarlin, Tanja; Sillanmaki, Lauri; McKeague, Ian W.; Surcel, Helja-Marja; Helenius, Hans; Brown, Alan S.; Sourander, Andre – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2011
This article presents an overview of the Finnish Prenatal Study of Autism and Autism Spectrum Disorders (FIPS-A), a new study designed to examine the relationship between prenatal serologic factors, mediating and moderating developmental antecedents, and risk of autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The FIPS-A is based on register linkages between…
Descriptors: Autism, Pregnancy, Foreign Countries, Clinics
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McMullen, Jake A.; Veermans, Koen; Laine, Kaarina – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2014
Despite the recent technical and theoretical advances in the investigation of children's social relations, the inherent complexity of these methods may prevent their easy integration into the classroom. A simple and effective tool can be valuable for teachers who wish to investigate students' social realities in the classroom. Therefore, the…
Descriptors: Sociometric Techniques, Classroom Techniques, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Research
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Baker, Ryan S.; Hershkovitz, Arnon; Rossi, Lisa M.; Goldstein, Adam B.; Gowda, Sujith M. – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2013
We present a new method for analyzing a student's learning over time for a specific skill: analysis of the graph of the student's moment-by-moment learning over time. Moment-by-moment learning is calculated using a data-mined model that assesses the probability that a student learned a skill or concept at a specific time during learning (Baker,…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Probability, Skill Development
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Ferry, Matthew; Pamela Hodges – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2011
The purpose of this study was to examine teachers' social and emotional knowledge of students and how it functioned within the wider context of their daily work lives. Five elementary school physical education teachers participated in six rounds of observations with formal and informal interviews over one school year. Data were analyzed through…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers, Teaching Methods, Interviews
Mbella, Kinge Keka – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Mixed-format assessments are increasingly being used in large scale standardized assessments to measure a continuum of skills ranging from basic recall to higher order thinking skills. These assessments are usually comprised of a combination of (a) multiple-choice items which can be efficiently scored, have stable psychometric properties, and…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Test Format, Evaluation Methods, Multiple Choice Tests
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Torrens, Paul M.; Griffin, William A. – Environment and Behavior, 2013
The authors describe an observational and analytic methodology for recording and interpreting dynamic microprocesses that occur during social interaction, making use of space--time data collection techniques, spatial-statistical analysis, and visualization. The scheme has three investigative foci: Structure, Activity Composition, and Clustering.…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Geographic Information Systems, Geography, Visualization
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