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Beveridge, Scott; Chan, Christian; DiNardo, Jeff; Glickman, Courtney – Rehabilitation Research, Policy, and Education, 2019
Background: Over the last 40 years advances in the field of rehabilitation counseling continue to play a major role in the professional identity, skills, and competencies of rehabilitation counselors. While advances have developed in several areas (e.g., multiculturalism, ethics) within the scope of rehabilitation counseling research and practice,…
Descriptors: Rehabilitation Counseling, Vocational Evaluation, Psychometrics, Counselors
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Dumas, Denis G.; McNeish, Daniel M. – Educational Researcher, 2017
Single-timepoint educational measurement practices are capable of assessing student ability at the time of testing but are not designed to be informative of student capacity for developing in any particular academic domain, despite commonly being used in such a manner. For this reason, such measurement practice systematically underestimates the…
Descriptors: Measurement Techniques, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Testing
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Camparo, James; Camparo, Lorinda B. – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2013
Though ubiquitous, Likert scaling's traditional mode of analysis is often unable to uncover all of the valid information in a data set. Here, the authors discuss a solution to this problem based on methodology developed by quantum physicists: the state multipole method. The authors demonstrate the relative ease and value of this method by…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Social Science Research, Evaluation Methods, Behavioral Science Research
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Briggs, Derek C. – Applied Measurement in Education, 2008
This article illustrates the use of an explanatory item response modeling (EIRM) approach in the context of measuring group differences in science achievement. The distinction between item response models and EIRMs, recently elaborated by De Boeck and Wilson (2004), is presented within the statistical framework of generalized linear mixed models.…
Descriptors: Science Achievement, Science Tests, Measurement, Error of Measurement
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Pfeiffer, Steven I.; Jarosewich, Tania – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2007
This study analyzes the standardization sample of a new teacher rating scale designed to assist in the identification of gifted students. The Gifted Rating Scales-School Form (GRS-S) is based on a multidimensional model of giftedness. Results indicate no age or race/ethnicity differences on any of the scales and small but significant differences…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Teacher Evaluation, Intelligence Quotient, Rating Scales
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Miller, Joel; Lin, Jeffrey – Crime & Delinquency, 2007
This article examines issues raised by the application of a generic actuarial juvenile risk instrument (the Model Risk Assessment Instrument) to New York City, a context different from the one in which it was developed. It describes practical challenges arising from the constraints of locally available data and local sensibilities and highlights…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Evaluation Methods, At Risk Persons, Recidivism
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Grinberg, Ilyse; Dawkins, Marva; Dawkins, Marvin P.; Fullilove, Constance – Adolescence (San Diego): an international quarterly devoted to the physiological, psychological, psychiatric, sociological, and educational aspects of the second decade of human life, 2005
Initial validation was sought for the Life-Challenges Questionnaire-Teen Form, a 120-item youth-risk assessment tool. The questionnaire was administered to 99 students enrolled in an adolescent detention facility and a comparison group of 305 students attending high school. The survey items included correlates of youth violence and categorized…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Violence, Adolescents, At Risk Persons
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Sneed, Carl D.; Morisky, Donald E.; Rotheram-Borus, Mary Jane; Lee, Sung-Jae; Ebin, V. J. Vicki J. – Journal of Adolescence, 2004
The functional equivalency for three indices of lifetime polydrug use was examined in a sample of adolescents (N=794). The following indices were included in analyses: (a) a count of lifetime self-report of substances used; (b) an index weighted by the severity of the substances used; and (c) a hierarchical index of substance use. Analyses for…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Pacific Islanders, Racial Differences, Indexes