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Saoirse Lally; Natalia Banasik-Jemielniak; Ewa Haman; Stanislava Antonijevic – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2025
Background: The challenge of assessing all languages of multilingual children by clinicians who do not speak the children's heritage languages is a global problem amplified by the increase in recent migration as well as a lack of available assessment tools. Aim: To evaluate the feasibility of using a novel scoring schema to assist English-speaking…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Polish, English, Bilingualism
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Cátia Couço Lucas; Ana Paula da Silva Pereira; Leandro da Silva Almeida; Isabelle Beaudry-Bellefeuille – Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools & Early Intervention, 2024
This systematic review aims to verify whether tools designed to assess Ayres Sensory Integration constructs take into account the basic principles of current early childhood intervention approaches, namely the family-centered approach, child and family routines, and natural contexts. This systematic review was based on a standard protocol…
Descriptors: Sensory Integration, Preschool Children, Early Childhood Education, Family Involvement
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Walker, Joshua D.; Robinson, Daniel H. – Journal of Experimental Education, 2023
Two-stage testing (TST) involves individual testing followed by taking the same test in teams. Previously, Vogler and Robinson ("The Journal of Experimental Education," 84(4), 787-803, 2016) found that TST facilitated individual performance. The present study addressed methodological limitations in the Vogler and Robinson study in two…
Descriptors: Testing, Undergraduate Students, Test Wiseness, Repetition
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Leggett, Jack; Morgan, Bryan; Tang, Kam Ki – Journal of Economic Education, 2022
Modern economics courses require high mathematical proficiency, and low proficiency may reduce grades or cause students to avoid economics courses. The article's authors sought to improve students' mathematical skills and grades with a simple intervention based on repeated quizzing of building-block concepts. They analyzed data from four semesters…
Descriptors: Tests, Mathematical Concepts, Grades (Scholastic), Economics Education
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Okan Bulut; Guher Gorgun; Seyma Nur Yildirim-Erbasli – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2025
Background: Research shows that how formative assessments are operationalized plays a crucial role in shaping their engagement with formative assessments, thereby impacting their effectiveness in predicting academic achievement. Mandatory assessments can ensure consistent student participation, leading to better tracking of learning progress.…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Academic Achievement, Student Participation, Learning Processes
Jacqueline L. Moore – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Physical therapy (PT) education programs adopting online teaching and learning must ensure students acquire the necessary skills for optimal professional work readiness, including appropriate assessment and feedback in the online environment. The problem addressed in this study is the gap in research related to the use of GoReact video assessment…
Descriptors: Physical Therapy, Doctoral Students, College Graduates, Student Attitudes
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Amy Overbay; Christopher W. Thurley – Writing Center Journal, 2024
As institutions cope with the difficult task of managing scarce resources to support student learning, college writing centers, like other student services, need to be able to articulate and, at times, quantify the benefits they offer the populations they serve. This study examined outcomes associated with visiting the writing center at one…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Laboratories, Writing (Composition), Academic Achievement
Mattern, Krista; Radunzel, Justine – ACT, Inc., 2019
When applicants take the ACT® more than once, how do colleges and universities reconcile and make sense of the multiple scores? In terms of validity, fairness, and impact on subgroup differences, are certain score-use polices better than others? The focus of this issue brief is to summarize evidence on the validity and fairness of various…
Descriptors: Scoring, College Entrance Examinations, Test Validity, Evaluation Methods
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Gilchrist, Kristin H.; Hegarty-Craver, Meghan; Christian, Robert B.; Grego, Sonia; Kies, Ashley C.; Wheeler, Anne C. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2018
Repetitive sensory motor behaviors are a direct target for clinical treatment and a potential treatment endpoint for individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities. By removing the burden associated with video annotation or direct observation, automated detection of stereotypy would allow for longer term monitoring in ecologic…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities, Behavior Problems, Repetition
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Kun, András István – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2015
This paper introduces an empirical study testing three kinds of bias in higher education student assessment. All of them are connected to the repetitive use of the same test questions which may facilitate academic cheating. The "same tests effect" may appear if two or more groups of students are writing the same test one after the other…
Descriptors: Test Bias, College Students, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
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Guerin, Anne; Murphy, Brian – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2015
This paper examines the implications of a seven-week programme of repeated readings on the fluency levels of three struggling adolescent readers. The study focused from a broad conceptualization of fluency which recognizes that practice and assessment should address all components of fluency, i.e., prosody and comprehension, as well as rate and…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Adolescents, Qualitative Research, Evaluation Methods
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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
Online Submission, 2021
Each year, Austin Independent School District Department of Research and Evaluation (DRE) staff develop a plan of work to describe the scope of work for the coming year. The plans that make up this document identify programs to be evaluated and services to be provided by DRE staff and provide the blueprints for evaluation that staff will follow…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Program Descriptions, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
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Salmon, Lynda G. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2014
This article reviews extant literature with the purpose of identifying factors that affect the potential efficacy of electronic books to support literacy development during early childhood. Selection criteria include experimental, quasi-experimental, and observational studies from peer-reviewed journals from 2000 to 2013 with a target population…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Electronic Publishing, Literacy Education, Young Children
Fang, Gang – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Camouflage fabrics are produced on a large scale for use in the US military and other applications. One of the highest volume camouflage fabrics is known as the Universal Camouflage Pattern (UCP) which is produced for the US Department of Defense. At present, no standard measurement-based color quality control method exists for camouflage…
Descriptors: Color, Deception, Armed Forces, Clothing
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