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Kötter, Thomas; Schulz, Johanna Christine; Pohontsch, Nadine Janis – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2022
Places to study at medical schools are scarce, which makes well-designed selection procedures employing criteria with predictive validity for good students and doctors necessary. In Germany, the pre-university grade point average (pu-GPA) is the main selection criterion for medical school application. However, this is criticised. According to a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Medical Students, Empathy, Interviews
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Roduta Roberts, Mary; Gotch, Chad M.; Cook, Megan; Werther, Karin; Chao, Iris C. I. – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2022
Performance-based assessment is a common approach to assess the development and acquisition of practice competencies among health professions students. Judgments related to the quality of performance are typically operationalized as ratings against success criteria specified within a rubric. The extent to which the rubric is understood,…
Descriptors: Protocol Analysis, Scoring Rubrics, Interviews, Performance Based Assessment
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Leanne R. Ketterlin-Geller; Muhammad Qadeer Haider; Jennifer McMurrer – Educational Assessment, 2024
This article illustrates and differentiates the unique role cognitive interviews and think-aloud interviews play in developing and validating assessments. Specifically, we describe the use of (a) cognitive interviews to gather empirical evidence to support claims about the intended construct being measured and (b) think-aloud interviews to gather…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction
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Herro, Danielle; Quigley, Cassie; Andrews, Jessica; Delacruz, Girlie – International Journal of STEM Education, 2017
Background: The shortage of skilled workers choosing STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) careers in the USA and worldwide has fueled a movement towards STEAM, in which the "A" addresses the arts and humanities. STEAM education has been proposed as a way to offer relevant problems to solve while drawing on creative and…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Art Education, Humanities, Elementary Secondary Education
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Arslan, Abdullah – International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2020
In this study, issues of validity and reliability of a wide range of instruments used to measure technological pedagogical content knowledge level of English teachers were discussed. To this end, the search in the databases of ERIC, ScienceDirect, Scopus, EBSCOhost, and Web of Science was conducted. As a result of applying a set of criteria to…
Descriptors: Validity, Reliability, Databases, Research Reports
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Alexander, Patricia A.; Dumas, Denis; Grossnickle, Emily M.; List, Alexandra; Firetto, Carla M. – Journal of Experimental Education, 2016
Relational reasoning is the foundational cognitive ability to discern meaningful patterns within an informational stream, but its reliable and valid measurement remains problematic. In this investigation, the measurement of relational reasoning unfolded in three stages. Stage 1 entailed the establishment of a research-based conceptualization of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Logical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Cognitive Processes
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Cervantes, Richard C.; Goldbach, Jeremy T.; Padilla, Amado M. – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2012
Despite progress in the development of measures to assess psychosocial stress experiences in the general population, a lack of culturally informed assessment instruments exist to enable clinicians and researchers to detect and accurately diagnosis mental health concerns among Hispanics. The Hispanic Stress Inventory (HSI) was developed…
Descriptors: Expertise, Focus Groups, Content Validity, Mental Health
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Hardré, Patricia L.; Hackett, Shannon – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2015
This manuscript chronicles the process and products of a redesign for evaluation of the graduate college experience (GCE) which was initiated by a university graduate college, based on its observed need to reconsider and update its measures and methods for assessing graduate students' experiences. We examined the existing instrumentation and…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Graduate Students, Student Experience, Evaluation Methods
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Honey, Emma; McConachie, Helen; Turner, Michelle; Rodgers, Jacqui – Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2012
The repetitive behaviour questionnaire (RBQ) (Turner, 1995) is one of the three most commonly used interview/questionnaire measures of repetitive behaviour (Honey et al., in preparation). Despite this there is a scarcity of information concerning its structure, reliability and validity. The psychometric properties of the RBQ were examined when…
Descriptors: Autism, Learning Disabilities, Construct Validity, Test Validity
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Hummel, Hans G. K.; Joosten-ten Brinke, Desirée; Nadolski, Rob J.; Baartman, Liesbeth K. J. – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2017
Serious games foster the acquisition of complex problem-solving skills. Assessment of such skills should be in line with instruction, and within a serious game environment its content validity should equal face-to-face assessment. Research on assessment in serious gaming has remained rather scarce. This article shows how assessment can be…
Descriptors: Content Validity, Educational Games, Computer Games, Computer Assisted Testing
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Ginsburg, Herbert P.; Lee, Young-Sun; Pappas, Sandra – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2016
This paper investigates the power of the computer guided clinical interview (CI) and new curriculum based measurement (CBM) measures to identify and help children at risk of low mathematics achievement. We use data from large numbers of children in Kindergarten through Grade 3 to investigate the construct validity of CBM risk categories. The basic…
Descriptors: Interviews, Curriculum Based Assessment, Evaluation Methods, At Risk Students
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Jüttner, Melanie; Neuhaus, Birgit Jana – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2013
The topic of "teacher professionalism" is one of the most crucial ones in quality education research. It has a potential to generate results that could inform and hence enhance the practice in classrooms. Thus, research in this field needs reliable instruments to measure the professional knowledge of our teachers to be able to generate…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Instruction, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Knowledge Base for Teaching
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Scahill, Lawrence; Aman, Michael G.; Lecavalier, Luc; Halladay, Alycia K.; Bishop, Somer L.; Bodfish, James W.; Grondhuis, Sabrina; Jones, Nancy; Horrigan, Joseph P.; Cook, Edwin H.; Handen, Benjamin L.; King, Bryan H.; Pearson, Deborah A.; McCracken, James T.; Sullivan, Katherine Anne; Dawson, Geraldine – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2015
Restricted interests and repetitive behaviors vary widely in type, frequency, and intensity among children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder. They can be stigmatizing and interfere with more constructive activities. Accordingly, restricted interests and repetitive behaviors may be a target of intervention. Several standardized…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Behavior Problems, Repetition
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Turner, Mark; Davila-Ross, Marina – Psychology Teaching Review, 2015
The ability to reason scientifically and communicate research appropriately is central to psychological literacy. Scientific research has little value unless scientists are able to convey results and their consequences clearly to others. In this study, we outline a method of assessing the development of psychological literacy in undergraduate…
Descriptors: Interviews, Research Projects, Psychological Studies, Verbal Communication
Schilder, D. – Center on Enhancing Early Learning Outcomes, 2013
In this "FastFacts," a state asks the Center on Enhancing Early Learning Outcomes (CEELO) to recommend experts in the field of assessing young children who are English Language Learners (ELL) to train administrators and psychologists working in district preschool programs for young children with special needs? This is particularly…
Descriptors: Screening Tests, Identification, English Language Learners, Bilingualism
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