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Neitzel, Jennifer; Early, Diane; Sideris, John; LaForrett, Doré; Abel, Michael B.; Soli, Margaret; Davidson, Dawn L.; Haboush-Deloye, Amanda; Hestenes, Linda L.; Jenson, Denise; Johnson, Cindy; Kalas, Jennifer; Mamrak, Angela; Masterson, Marie L.; Mims, Sharon U.; Oya, Patti; Philson, Bobbi; Showalter, Megan; Warner-Richter, Mallory; Kortright Wood, Jill – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2019
The Early Childhood Environment Rating Scales, including the "Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale--Revised" (Harms et al., 2005) and the "Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale, Third Edition" (Harms et al., 2015) are the most widely used observational assessments in early childhood learning environments. The most recent…
Descriptors: Rating Scales, Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality, Scoring
Ashley Marinez – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The purpose of the current study was to determine interrater reliability (IRR) of Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) Curriculum-based Measures (R-CBM) when used with Spanish-speaking English Learner (EL) students. The ORF R-CBM probes obtained from AIMSweb are measures of a student's reading accuracy skills and reading fluency skills. Certified school…
Descriptors: Interrater Reliability, English (Second Language), Reading Fluency, Curriculum Based Assessment
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van Rijn, Peter; Graf, Edith Aurora; Arieli-Attali, Meirav; Song, Yi – ETS Research Report Series, 2018
In this study, we explored the extent to which teachers agree on the ordering and separation of levels of two different learning progressions (LPs) in English language arts (ELA) and mathematics. In a panel meeting akin to a standard-setting procedure, we asked teachers to link the items and responses of summative educational assessments to LP…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Student Evaluation, Summative Evaluation, Language Arts
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Oh, Yoonkyung; Osgood, D. Wayne; Smith, Emilie P. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2015
The importance of afterschool hours for youth development is widely acknowledged, and afterschool settings have recently received increasing attention as an important venue for youth interventions, bringing a growing need for reliable and valid measures of afterschool quality. This study examined the extent to which the two observational tools,…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Program Effectiveness, Observation, Rating Scales
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Wang, Ning; Wilhite, Stephen; Martino, Daniel – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2016
This study examined the possible relationship between emotional competence and transformational leadership in K-12 school leaders as a function of self-other agreement. The study found that, for those school leaders whose self-assessment of their leadership agreed with that of their subordinates, the self-ratings of emotional competence were…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Emotional Intelligence, Transformational Leadership, Elementary Secondary Education
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Chaplin, Duncan; Gill, Brian; Thompkins, Allison; Miller, Hannah – Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, 2014
Responding to federal and state prompting, school districts across the country are implementing new teacher evaluation systems that aim to increase the rigor of evaluation ratings, better differentiate effective teaching, and support personnel and staff development initiatives that promote teacher effectiveness and ultimately improve student…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Public Schools, Teacher Evaluation, Student Surveys
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Polignano, Joy C.; Hojnoski, Robin L. – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2012
There has been increased attention to the development of assessment measures for evaluating mathematical skills in young children in order to inform instruction and intervention. However, existing tools have focused primarily on number sense with little attention to other areas of mathematical thinking such as geometry and algebra. The purpose of…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Curriculum Based Assessment, Test Reliability, Test Validity
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Roman Lantzy, Christine A.; Lantzy, Alan – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2010
Pediatric View is an evaluation project that began in 1999 and is located at Western Pennsylvania Hospital in Pittsburgh. The purpose of Pediatric View is to provide developmental and functional vision evaluations to children who have ocular or cortical visual impairments. The evaluations are generally two hours in length, and a detailed report…
Descriptors: Intervention, Visual Impairments, Vision, Infants
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Awan, Shaheen N.; Stine, Carolyn L – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2011
The purpose of this study was to determine possible differences in voice onset time (VOT) between speakers of standard American English (AE) and Indian English (IE) in a continuous speech context. The participants were 20 AE speakers, who were native to the Northeastern Pennsylvania region, and 20 IE speakers from the Indian subcontinent who had…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, North American English, Indians, Dialects
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Few, Lauren R.; Miller, Joshua D.; Morse, Jennifer Q.; Yaggi, Kirsten E.; Reynolds, Sarah K.; Pilkonis, Paul A. – Assessment, 2010
Despite substantial research use, measures of the five-factor model (FFM) are infrequently used in clinical settings due, in part, to issues related to administration time and a reluctance to use self-report instruments. The current study examines the reliability and validity of the Five-Factor Model Score Sheet (FFMSS), which is a 30-item…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Personality Problems, Test Reliability, Test Validity
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Fiore, Thomas A.; Nimkoff, Tamara; Munk, Tom; Carlson, Elaine – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2013
The "Personnel Development Program to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities" is authorized under Section 662 of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and is known as the Personnel Development Program (PDP). The PDP is administered by the U.S. Department of Education's (ED's) Office of Special…
Descriptors: Staff Development, Federal Programs, Program Evaluation, Special Education
Gersten, Russell; Dimino, Joe; Jayanthi, Madhavi; Newman-Gonchar, Rebecca – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2009
The purpose of this professional development study was to examine the impact of Teacher Study Groups on the teacher practice, teacher knowledge, and student outcomes, specifically in the areas of reading comprehension and vocabulary. The multi-site study was conducted in three large urban school districts from three states: California (CA),…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Reading Comprehension, Teacher Characteristics, Vocabulary
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Moore, Michelle W.; Tompkins, Connie A.; Dollaghan, Christine A. – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2010
The purpose of this paper was to examine the psychometric properties of a non-word repetition task (NRT), the Late-8 Non-word Repetition Task (L8NRT). This task was designed similarly to the NRT, but contains only Late-8 consonants to increase articulatory demands and avoid ceiling effects in studies with adolescents and adults. Thirty college…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Mastery Tests, Repetition, College Students
Cecchetti, Alfred A. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Objective: This dissertation developed an automatic classification procedure, as an example of a novel tool for an informationist, which extracts information from published abstracts, classifies abstracts into their "fields of study," and then determines the researcher's "field of study" and "level of activity." …
Descriptors: Medical Research, Medical Schools, Medicine, Classification
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Vlach, Haley A.; Carver, Sharon M. – Early Childhood Research & Practice, 2008
Education programs have fostered advanced levels of graphic representation ability in young children but have not detailed the specific mechanisms responsible for the accelerated growth. Research suggests that between 6 and 8 years of age children begin to observe more carefully before drawing and that observation prompts aid children's…
Descriptors: Childrens Art, Observation, Scores, Early Childhood Education
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