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Anna Kay Steadman – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The Performance Assessment and Evaluation System (PAES) is used by all major universities in the state of Utah to measure the effective teaching skills of preservice candidates as they progress through their teaching preparation program. The resulting ratings are used to make high-stakes decisions relating to course completion as well as…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Evaluation, Teaching Skills, Elementary School Teachers
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Lambie, Glenn W.; Mullen, Patrick R.; Swank, Jacqueline M.; Blount, Ashley – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2018
Supervisors evaluated counselors-in-training at multiple points during their practicum experience using the Counseling Competencies Scale (CCS; N = 1,070). The CCS evaluations were randomly split to conduct exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis, resulting in a 2-factor model (61.5% of the variance explained).
Descriptors: Counselor Training, Counseling, Measures (Individuals), Competence
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Pentimonti, Jill M.; Zucker, Tricia A.; Justice, Laura M.; Petscher, Yaacov; Piasta, Shayne B.; Kaderavek, Joan N. – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2012
Participation in shared-reading experiences is associated with children's language and literacy outcomes, yet few standardized assessments of shared-reading quality exist. The purpose of this study was to describe the psychometric characteristics of the Systematic Assessment of Book Reading (SABR), an observational tool designed to characterize…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Construct Validity, Interrater Reliability, Factor Structure
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Ginns, Paul; Prosser, Michael; Barrie, Simon – Studies in Higher Education, 2007
The psychometric properties of a version of the Course Experience Questionnaire revised for students currently enrolled at the University of Sydney, the Student Course Experience Questionnaire (SCEQ), were assessed, gathering students' perceptions on a number of scales, including Good Teaching, Clear Goals and Standards, Appropriate Assessment,…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Student Attitudes, Psychometrics, Teacher Effectiveness
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Hughes, Garry L.; Prien, Erich P. – Personnel Psychology, 1989
The relationship between job skills and specific tasks is difficult to analyze, since any one task may require multiple skills. In this study, a sequence of statistical evaluations was conducted to examine the reliability of a subject matter expert panel's association of tasks and job skills and the factor structure of the task by job skill…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Factor Analysis, Factor Structure, Interrater Reliability
Micceri, Theodore – 1984
This paper investigates the reliability of the Florida Performance Measurement Systems' Summative Observation instrument. Developed for the Florida Beginning Teacher Evaluation Program, it provides behavioral ratings for teachers in a classroom setting. Data came from ratings of videotapes of nine teachers conducting actual lessons by nine teams…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Classroom Observation Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
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McGhee, Debbie E.; Lowell, Nana – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2003
This study compares mean ratings, inter-rater reliabilities, and the factor structure of items for online and paper student-rating forms from the University of Washington's Instructional Assessment System. (Contains 3 figures and 2 tables.)
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Factor Structure, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Test Items
Bejar, Isaac I. – 1985
The feasibility of reducing scoring costs for the Test of Spoken English (TSE) by using one rater was investigated. Currently, two raters are used. It was found that, because of the possibility of different standards used by potential raters, it does not appear feasible to use a single rater as the sole determiner of speaking proficiency under the…
Descriptors: Analysis of Covariance, Cost Effectiveness, English (Second Language), Evaluation Criteria
Carlson, Sybil B.; And Others – 1985
Four writing samples were obtained from 638 foreign college applicants who represented three major foreign language groups (Arabic, Chinese, and Spanish), and from 60 native English speakers. All four were scored holistically, two were also scored for sentence-level and discourse-level skills, and some were scored by the Writer's Workbench…
Descriptors: Arabic, Chinese, College Entrance Examinations, Computer Software