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Direct linkCheng, Sanyin; Zhang, Li-Fang – American Annals of the Deaf, 2014
The present study pioneered in adopting test accommodations to validate the Thinking Styles Inventory-Revised II (TSI-R2; Sternberg, Wagner, & Zhang, 2007) among Chinese university students with hearing impairment. A series of three studies were conducted that drew their samples from the same two universities, in which accommodating test…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Testing Accommodations, Hearing Impairments, College Students
Lane, Suzanne; Leventhal, Brian – Review of Research in Education, 2015
This chapter addresses the psychometric challenges in assessing English language learners (ELLs) and students with disabilities (SWDs). The first section addresses some general considerations in the assessment of ELLs and SWDs, including the prevalence of ELLs and SWDs in the student population, federal and state legislation that requires the…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Evaluation Problems, English Language Learners, Disabilities
Scarpati, Stanley E.; Wells, Craig S.; Lewis, Christine; Jirka, Stephen – Journal of Special Education, 2011
The purpose of this study was to use differential item functioning (DIF) and latent mixture model analyses to explore factors that explain performance differences on a large-scale mathematics assessment between examinees allowed to use a calculator or who were afforded item presentation accommodations versus those who did not receive the same…
Descriptors: Testing Accommodations, Test Items, Test Format, Validity
Download full textSteinberg, Jonathan; Cline, Frederick; Sawaki, Yasuyo – Educational Testing Service, 2011
This study examined the scores on a state standards-based Grade 5 Science assessment obtained by a group of students without learning disabilities who took the standard form of the test and by three groups of students with learning disabilities: one taking the standard form of the test without accommodations or modifications, a second taking the…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, State Standards, Educational Improvement, Science Tests
Camara, Wayne – Journal of Applied Testing Technology, 2009
The five papers in this special issue of the "Journal of Applied Testing Technology" address fundamental issues of validity when tests are modified or accommodations are provided to English Language Learners (ELL) or students with disabilities. Three papers employed differential item functioning (DIF) and factor analysis and found the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Factor Analysis, English (Second Language), Cognitive Ability
Steinberg, Jonathan; Cline, Frederick; Ling, Guangming; Cook, Linda; Tognatta, Namrata – Journal of Applied Testing Technology, 2009
This study examines the appropriateness of a large-scale state standards-based English-Language Arts (ELA) assessment for students who are deaf or hard of hearing by comparing the internal test structures for these students to students without disabilities. The Grade 4 and 8 ELA assessments were analyzed via a series of parcel-level exploratory…
Descriptors: Test Bias, Language Arts, State Standards, Partial Hearing
