This article explores the use of children's photography as a method for conducting mathematics education research with young children. Collected as part of a study focusing on the experiences with measurement children have at the start of schooling, the photographs presented here were taken by children aged five and six years, from two Australian…

In this paper I explore how Margaret Beier, Lesley Miller, and Shu Wang make claims for the validity and reliability of the instrument they developed to explore the construct of "possible selves" as described in their manuscript, "Science Games and the Development of Scientific Possible Selves."

One challenge for music educators is to find techniques to help students "listen across time" to the examples they are assigned to study and to stay focused on a piece as they listen. Measurement tools to assess music listening have a long history, ranging from very simple to very complex, and very dated to very recent. This article traces the…

The Instrument for Analysis of Science Teaching (IAST) was developed as a 26-category system of interaction analysis. Following conceptualization and several research studies, the IAST was redeveloped with 14 basic categories (IAST Base) and an expanded 32-categories version (LAST v.2) which is based on subdividing the IAST Base categories. In…

Discusses reasons for questioning the underlying assumptions of instruments designed to measure knowledge of the nature of science. Recommends that researchers recognize that conflicting models of science exist, and that each instrument related to these models must specify all philosophic assumptions. (MLH)

This instrument for describing writing is designed for use by teachers and researchers at the secondary and college levels. The two main sections are an outline of the complete instrument and the instrument itself. Various categories of the instrument can be used to describe general, descriptive, and explanatory prose; other categories are related…

A methodology for developing a teaching effectiveness rating instrument is provided which elicits measures in terms decision makers believe important, avoids redundancy, includes items raters are able to rate (as perceived by decision makers), and includes concerned parties in the development of the instrument. Methodology consists of development…

An instrument to assess specific attitudes toward humanistic teaching strategies as well as toward science teaching was designed. (Author/GA)

This study designed the Environmental Chemistry Value Preference (ECVP) instrument to assess the value preferences of college non-science majors with respect to certain aspects of environmental chemistry and used the instrument to obtain the value preferences of various groups of non-science majors who had completed some chemistry courses. (BT)

An examination of typical situations concerning the status of a variable is followed by a discussion of the measurement and empirical problems involved in measuring current status. Arguments for more consideration of variability, particularly individual variation, are presented. Among the problems discussed are (1) describing large samples through…

The article considers: (1) three fundamental principles for measurement, (2) facts about typewriting and stenographic skills that bear on their measurement, (3) recommendations for testing in accord with those facts and with basic measurement principles, and (4) the establishment of standards and modes of scoring and grading. (Author)

This researcher investigated two problems: (1) the accuracy and validity of instruments which measure Piagetian levels of thought; and (2) the need for more detailed models of concrete and formal operational structures, both as they develop and consolidate, and in their most highly developed state. Several tasks such as the Piagetian correlations…

Describes the design of an instrument to measure the attitudes of teachers toward metrication, and reports on its reliability and validity. (GA)

Discusses the development, field testing, and validation of an instrument designed to assess secondary school students' understanding of the nature of scientific knowledge. (GA)