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The Stability of Kindergarten Teachers' Effectiveness: A Generalizability Study Comparing the Framework for Teaching and the Classroom Assessment Scoring System
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Mantzicopoulos, Panayota; French, Brian F.; Patrick, Helen; Watson, J. Samuel; Ahn, Inok – Educational Assessment, 2018
To meet recent accountability mandates, school districts are implementing assessment frameworks to document teachers' effectiveness. Observational assessments play a key role in this process, albeit without compelling evidence of their psychometric rigor. Using a sample of kindergarten teachers, we employed Generalizability theory to investigate…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten, Teacher Effectiveness, Generalizability Theory
Measuring Depression at the End of Life: Is the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale a Valid Instrument?
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Olden, Megan; Rosenfeld, Barry; Pessin, Hayley; Breitbart, William – Assessment, 2009
Depression at the end of life is a common mental health issue with serious implications for quality of life and decision making. This study investigated the reliability and validity of one of the most frequently used measures of depression, the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAM-D) in 422 patients with terminal cancer admitted to a palliative…
Descriptors: Quality of Life, Validity, Suicide, Rating Scales
Assessing Decision-Making Risk and Information Needs in Evaluation.
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Brown, Robert D.; Prentice, David G. – Evaluation Review, 1987
This article reports on how short scales can be used to assess the perceived risks that exist for decision makers, their perception of the decision context and their perceived information needs. Three scales are described: (1) a Decision Risk Scale; (2) a Decision Context Inventory; and (3) a Need for Information Inventory. (JAZ)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Higher Education, Information Needs, Nurses
Academic Grades: Their Subjective Scale Structure Based on College Student Impressions
Stone, LeRoy A. – Psychol Rep, 1969
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Decision Making, Evaluation Criteria, Grading
Types of Judges and Cue Utilization in Judgments of Intelligence
Wiggins, Nancy; and others – J Personality Soc Psychol, 1969
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cues, Decision Making, Education
School Participant Empowerment Scale: Assessment of Level of Empowerment within the School Environment.
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Short, Paula M.; Rinehart, James S. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1992
Three studies involving 79 teacher leaders, 4 school empowerment experts, and 387 secondary school teachers indicate that the 38-item School Participant Empowerment Scale (SPES) may tap 6 dimensions of empowerment within the school organization identified in the literature. The SPES effectively measures perceived empowerment in school settings.…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Decision Making, Educational Environment, Factor Analysis
High School Students' Career Decision-Making Process: Development and Validation of the Study Choice Task Inventory
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Germeijs, Veerle; Verschueren, Karine – Journal of Career Assessment, 2006
During adolescence, one important career-related decision is the choice of a study in higher education. In this article, a new set of measures for different tasks (i.e., orientation, exploration, commitment) that can be distinguished during this career decision-making process was constructed: the Study Choice Task Inventory (SCTI). A sample of 946…
Descriptors: High School Students, Career Choice, Decision Making, Adolescents
A Model for Differential Norming of Faculty Evaluations for Promotion and Tenure Decisions.
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Arreola, Raoul A.; Heinrich, Darlene – 1977
Florida State University instituted a mandatory system to be used in making promotion and tenure decisions, in which teaching faculty were rated by their students. Under an agreement with Michigan State University, the Student Instructional Rating System (SIRS) was adapted for use on the Florida State campus. Since the data were to be used to…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Students, Decision Making, Evaluation Methods
Faculty Ratings as a Measure of Administrator Quality. AIR Forum 1981 Paper.
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Hengstler, Dennis D.; And Others – 1981
The reliability, factor structure, and discriminatory power of faculty perceptions of the performance of departmental administrators were investigated, using the Administrator Evaluation Survey (AES) developed at the University of Illinois. Faculty from a major research university in the midwest, a smaller state university in the midwest, and a…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Black Colleges