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Wendy Castillo; Rachel Renbarger; Sasha Mejia-Bradford; Christen Priddie; Juan Cruz; Brein Mosely; Katherine Aragon – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2025
Education policy research aimed at eliminating racism necessitates methodological innovation that fosters both equity-centered approaches and robust empirical analysis of the systemic nature of racism. Most quantitative research in educational psychology omits the racist environment that students in K-12 education exist in (DeCuir-Gunby &…
Descriptors: Racism, Elementary Secondary Education, Racial Discrimination, Surveys
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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Schönborn, K. J.; Höst, G. E.; Lundin Palmerius, K. E. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2015
As the application of nanotechnology in everyday life impacts society, it becomes critical for citizens to have a scientific basis upon which to judge their perceived hopes and fears of 'nano'. Although multiple instruments have been designed for assessing attitudinal and affective aspects of nano, surprisingly little work has focused on…
Descriptors: Molecular Structure, Technology, Test Construction, Test Validity
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Zeyneloglu, Simge; Terzioglu, Fusun – Hacettepe University Journal of Education, 2011
This research was conducted for the purpose of developing a scaling tool to determine university students' attitudes towards gender roles. University students' attitudes should first be determined in order to change this traditional view to gender and to achieve a more egalitarian view. The research sample was comprised of one university's…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Sex Role, Measures (Individuals), Sampling
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Hutchison, Dougal – Oxford Review of Education, 2008
There is a degree of instability in any measurement, so that if it is repeated, it is possible that a different result may be obtained. Such instability, generally described as "measurement error", may affect the conclusions drawn from an investigation, and methods exist for allowing it. It is less widely known that different disciplines, and…
Descriptors: Measurement Techniques, Data Analysis, Error of Measurement, Test Reliability
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Runyan, Desmond K.; Dunne, Michael P.; Zolotor, Adam J. – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2009
The "World Report on Children and Violence", (Pinheiro, 2006) was produced at the request of the UN Secretary General and the UN General Assembly. This report recommended improvement in research on child abuse. ISPCAN representatives took this charge and developed 3 new instruments. We describe this background and introduce three new measures…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Screening Tests, Child Welfare, Test Construction
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Berge, Jos M. F. Ten; Socan, Gregor – Psychometrika, 2004
To assess the reliability of congeneric tests, specifically designed reliability measures have been proposed. This paper emphasizes that such measures rely on a unidimensionality hypothesis, which can neither be confirmed nor rejected when there are only three test parts, and will invariably be rejected when there are more than three test parts.…
Descriptors: Test Reliability, Sampling, Psychometrics, Test Bias
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Eiting, Mindert H. – Applied Psychological Measurement, 1991
A method is proposed for sequential evaluation of reliability of psychometric instruments. Sample size is unfixed; a test statistic is computed after each person is sampled and a decision is made in each stage of the sampling process. Results from a series of Monte-Carlo experiments establish the method's efficiency. (SLD)
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Equations (Mathematics), Estimation (Mathematics), Mathematical Models
Skaggs, Gary; Bourque, Mary Lyn – 1998
Political and legislative pressures have posed a number of measurement issues and challenges to the development of sound, valid voluntary national tests (VNTs). This paper focuses on what appear to be the most difficult technical issues related to the VNT proposed by President Clinton in 1997. Technical issues refer to psychometric issues, as…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Classification, Difficulty Level
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Meyer, Kevin D.; Foster, Jeff L. – International Journal of Testing, 2008
With the increasing globalization of human resources practices, a commensurate increase in demand has occurred for multi-language ("global") personality norms for use in selection and development efforts. The combination of data from multiple translations of a personality assessment into a single norm engenders error from multiple sources. This…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Cultural Differences, Norms, Human Resources
Berenson, Gerald S.; And Others – 1987
This study investigated the measurement integrity of the "Heart Smart" cognitive tests. Designed for fourth, fifth, and sixth graders, the tests measure health-related knowledge involving physiology, nutrition, exercise, and behavioral skills. The report presents tables of specifications, test floors and ranges, a demographic profile of…
Descriptors: Cardiovascular System, Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Grade 5