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Han, Chao – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2023
Aptitude testing is used to select candidates with the greatest potential for professional interpreter training. Implicit in this practice is the expectation that aptitude test scores predict future performance. As such, the predictive validity of score-based inferences and decisions constitutes an important rationale for aptitude testing.…
Descriptors: Predictive Validity, Aptitude Tests, Cohort Analysis, Research Reports
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Nicolas Pichot; Boris Forthmann; Eric Bonetto; Thomas Arciszewski; Nathalie Bonnardel; Sara Jaubert; Jean B. Pavani – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2024
The term "creative" is commonly used in everyday language and in academic discourse to discuss the nature of artistic and innovative productions. This usage inherently implies the existence of a variable of creativity that allows different creative works to be compared. The standard definition of creativity asserts that a production must…
Descriptors: Creativity, Test Construction, Test Validity, Productive Thinking
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Aprile D. Benner; Shanting Chen; Celeste C. Fernandez; Mark D. Hayward – Sociological Methods & Research, 2024
Discrimination is associated with numerous psychological health outcomes over the life course. The nine-item Everyday Discrimination Scale (EDS) is one of the most widely used measures of discrimination; however, this nine-item measure may not be feasible in large-scale population health surveys where a shortened discrimination measure would be…
Descriptors: Social Discrimination, Measures (Individuals), Construct Validity, Research Methodology
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Uluyol, Çelebi; Orak, Esma; Gökçearslan, Sahin; Ramazanoglu, Mehmet – Participatory Educational Research, 2023
This study is designed to reveal the research trends of graduate theses published in the field of computer programming in K-12 between 2018 and 2022. Document analysis was used for data collection in this study. The data was divided into 9 categories, and the results demonstrated that the scholars in the Departments of Computer Educational and…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Programming, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education
Kyle Thomas Sterrett – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Most social communication tests used to measure change in young children with autism spectrum disorder have not undergone rigorous psychometric evaluation. Notably, and most relevant to the early intervention literature, there is little information on the sensitivity of these measures to change over time, despite their frequent use. Further, most…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Diagnostic Tests, Observation, Adjustment (to Environment)
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Raykov, Tenko; Marcoulides, George A.; Li, Tenglong – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2017
The measurement error in principal components extracted from a set of fallible measures is discussed and evaluated. It is shown that as long as one or more measures in a given set of observed variables contains error of measurement, so also does any principal component obtained from the set. The error variance in any principal component is shown…
Descriptors: Error of Measurement, Factor Analysis, Research Methodology, Psychometrics
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Gagnon, Ryan J.; Stone, Garrett A.; Garst, Barry A. – Journal of Outdoor Recreation, Education, and Leadership, 2017
Critically examining common statistical approaches and their strengths and weaknesses is an important step in advancing recreation and leisure sciences. To continue this critical examination and to inform methodological decision making, this study compared three approaches to determine how alternative approaches may result in contradictory…
Descriptors: Recreation, Recreational Programs, Educational Research, Research Methodology
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Cunha, Ana C. B.; Berkovits, Michelle D.; Albuquerque, Karolina A. – Infants and Young Children, 2018
Developmental assessment scales are important tools for determining developmental delays and planning preventive interventions. One broad assessment scale used to evaluate child development is the Battelle Developmental Inventories (BDIs). The BDI-2 has a standardized version in English with good psychometric properties and a translated version in…
Descriptors: Child Development, Measures (Individuals), Young Children, Literature Reviews
Potsi, Autoanneta – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2016
This book explores the Capability Approach (CA) as an alternative critical lens through which to regard early childhood education (ECE) curricula. The CA framework is a counter narrative to the narrow instrumentalism that reduces education to a mere process of academic skills acquisition for a future workplace. Primarily the book draws on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Ability, Curriculum Design
Wagemaker, Hans, Ed. – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2020
Although International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement-pioneered international large-scale assessment (ILSA) of education is now a well-established science, non-practitioners and many users often substantially misunderstand how large-scale assessments are conducted, what questions and challenges they are designed to…
Descriptors: International Assessment, Achievement Tests, Educational Assessment, Comparative Analysis
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Hall, S. S.; Hammond, J. L.; Hirt, M.; Reiss, A. L. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2012
Background: Clinical trials of medications to alleviate the cognitive and behavioural symptoms of individuals with fragile X syndrome (FXS) are now underway. However, there are few reliable, valid and/or sensitive outcome measures available that can be directly administered to individuals with FXS. The majority of assessments employed in clinical…
Descriptors: Outcome Measures, Test Validity, Feedback (Response), Reinforcement
DeBarger, Angela Haydel; DiBello, Louis; Minstrell, Jim; Feng, Mingyu; Stout, William; Pellegrino, James; Haertel, Geneva; Harris, Christopher; Ructinger, Liliana – Online Submission, 2011
This paper describes methods for an alignment study and psychometric analyses of a formative assessment system, Diagnoser Tools for physics. Diagnoser Tools begin with facet clusters as the interpretive framework for designing questions and instructional activities. Thus each question in the diagnostic assessments includes distractors that…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Educational Diagnosis, Validity, Psychometrics
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Lam, Tony C. M. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2009
D'Eon et al. concluded that change in performance self-assessment means from before to after a workshop can detect workshop success in their and other situations. In this commentary, their recommendation is refuted by showing that (a) self-assessments with balanced over- and underestimations are still biased and should not be used to evaluate…
Descriptors: Workshops, Success, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Test Bias
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Marley, Scott C. – Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 2010
Recent articles in "The Journal for Specialists in Group Work" have discussed credibility indicators for quantitative and qualitative studies (Asner-Self, 2009; Rubel & Villalba, 2009). This article extends upon these contributions by discussing measurement issues that are relevant to producers and consumers of quantitative group research. This…
Descriptors: Credibility, Psychological Evaluation, Validity, Data Collection
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Blijd-Hoogewys, E. M. A.; van Geert, P. L. C.; Serra, M.; Minderaa, R. B. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2008
Although research on Theory-of-Mind (ToM) is often based on single task measurements, more comprehensive instruments result in a better understanding of ToM development. The ToM Storybooks is a new instrument measuring basic ToM-functioning and associated aspects. There are 34 tasks, tapping various emotions, beliefs, desires and mental-physical…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Interrater Reliability, Psychometrics, Research Methodology
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