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Teck Kiang Tan – Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 2024
The procedures of carrying out factorial invariance to validate a construct were well developed to ensure the reliability of the construct that can be used across groups for comparison and analysis, yet mainly restricted to the frequentist approach. This motivates an update to incorporate the growing Bayesian approach for carrying out the Bayesian…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Factor Analysis, Programming Languages, Reliability
Becerra, Beatriz; Núñez, Paola; Vergara, Claudia; Santibáñez, David; Krüger, Dirk; Cofré, Hernán – Research in Science Education, 2023
Despite the importance of evolution to understand biology, there is significant evidence that many biology teachers have difficulties to successfully teach this topic. The purpose of this study is to describe procedures by which a paper-and-pencil instrument to assess teachers' pedagogical content knowledge for evolution (PCK[subscript evo]) was…
Descriptors: Evolution, Science Instruction, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Construct Validity
Nghia, Tran Le Huu; Duyen, Nguyen Thi My – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2019
Developed as an integral component of many higher education programs, internships provide a multitude of benefits for participating students. However, there is a lack of tools designed to measure internship-related learning outcomes. Therefore, this article will present the process of constructing and validating a scale that can be used to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Internship Programs, Construct Validity, Outcomes of Education
Liu, Tzu-Ying – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2017
In recent years, with the rapid development of mobile devices, mobile learning (m-learning) has becoming another popular topic. There is a strong need for both researchers and educators to be aware of adult learners' attitudes toward English mobile learning, yet relevant studies on mobile learning to promote English learning for adult learners are…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Telecommunications
Flood, Luci N.; Bulgrin, Amanda; Morgan, Betsy L. – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2013
The rise in the prevalence of autism creates a need for a reliable and valid measure of attitudes towards autism. The current study describes the development of a brief 16-item measure of Societal Attitudes towards Autism (SATA) that exhibits sound psychometric properties and has a demonstrated ability to discriminate between expert and general…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Autism, Attitude Measures
Behizadeh, Nadia – Educational Researcher, 2014
The dangers of a single story in current U.S. large-scale writing assessment are that assessment practice does not align with theory and this practice has negative effects on instruction and students. In this article, I analyze the connections or lack of connections among writing theory, writing assessment, and writing instruction, critique the…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Evaluation, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education
Schilder, D. – Center on Enhancing Early Learning Outcomes, 2013
In this "FastFacts," a state asks the Center on Enhancing Early Learning Outcomes (CEELO) to recommend experts in the field of assessing young children who are English Language Learners (ELL) to train administrators and psychologists working in district preschool programs for young children with special needs? This is particularly…
Descriptors: Screening Tests, Identification, English Language Learners, Bilingualism
Assessment and Accountability Comprehensive Center, 2007
This body of evidence summary reports the results of the evaluation of technical evidence in support of the California English Language Development Test (CELDT), as analyzed against a validated list of technical adequacy criteria. The table presented in this paper outlines the types of validity, reliability, and bias and sensitivity evidence…
Descriptors: Evidence, Validity, Language Acquisition, Language Proficiency
Greco, Laurie A.; Lambert, Warren; Baer, Ruth A. – Psychological Assessment, 2008
The authors describe the development and validation of the Avoidance and Fusion Questionnaire for Youth (AFQ-Y), a child-report measure of psychological inflexibility engendered by high levels of cognitive fusion and experiential avoidance. Consistent with the theory underlying acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), items converged into a…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Validity, Measures (Individuals), Item Analysis

Harrison, Allison W.; Rainer, R. Kelly, Jr. – Computers in Human Behavior, 1996
Discussion of user satisfaction with computers focuses on a study that tested the construct validity and reliability of the End User Computing Satisfaction Instrument. Highlights include the relationship of user satisfaction and computer attitudes, computer anxiety, computer skill, and computer usage; and implications for the management of…
Descriptors: Administration, Computer Anxiety, Computer Attitudes, Computers
de Bildt, Annelies; Kraijer, Dirk; Sytema, Sjoerd; Minderaa, Ruud – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2005
The psychometric properties of the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales Survey Form were studied in a total population of children and adolescents with MR, and in the specific levels of functioning (n=826, age 4-18 years). The original division into (sub)domains, as assigned by the authors, was replicated in the total population and in the mild and…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Measures (Individuals), Children, Adolescents
Langlois, Marietta A.; Petosa R. Linyak; Hallam, Jeffrey S. – Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse, 2006
The purpose of this study was to develop a valid and reliable instrument to measure the Social Cognitive Theory (SCT) constructs of smoking refusal skill-efficacy, positive smoking refusal outcome expectations & importance and negative smoking refusal outcome expectations & importance. This article details the rigorous instrument development…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Evaluation Methods, Expectation, Resistance (Psychology)
Haney, Walt; Russell, Michael; Bebell, Damian – Harvard Educational Review, 2004
In this article, Walt Haney, Michael Russell, and Damian Bebell summarize a decade of work using student drawings as a way to both document and change education and schooling. After a brief summary of more than one hundred years of literature on children's drawings, the authors point out that drawings have been little recognized as a medium of…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Freehand Drawing, Documentation, Reliability