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Sebok, Stefanie S.; Roy, Marguerite; Klinger, Don A.; De Champlain, André F. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2015
Examiner effects and content specificity are two well known sources of construct irrelevant variance that present great challenges in performance-based assessments. National medical organizations that are responsible for large-scale performance based assessments experience an additional challenge as they are responsible for administering…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Site Selection, Medical Students, Physicians
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Pandya, Samta P. – Religious Education, 2018
Based on a one-year longitudinal experimental study with 3,782 kindergarten school children across 15 countries, this article examines the association between prayer and happiness. Results show that the post-test scores on the faces scale were higher for the participant group who had taken the prayer lessons vis-à-vis the comparison group.…
Descriptors: Scores, Cross Cultural Studies, Christianity, Pretests Posttests
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Sandstrom, Gillian M.; Rawn, Catherine D. – Teaching of Psychology, 2015
When students chatter in class it can be disruptive, but could that chatter also have some redeeming qualities? We asked students to keep track of their social interactions in a particular class. On days when students had more social interactions than usual, they reported a greater sense of belonging, which was, in turn, related to greater class…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Interaction, Interpersonal Communication, Student Attitudes
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Lau, Kwok-chi; Lam, Terence Yuk-ping – International Journal of Science Education, 2017
This study analysed 10 top-performing regions in PISA 2015 on their science performances and instructional practices. The regions include Singapore, Japan, Estonia, Taipei, Finland, Macao, Canada, Hong Kong, China and Korea. The science performances of the 10 regions and their teaching practices are described and compared. The construct of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Educational Practices, Science Achievement
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Chahine, Saad; Holmes, Bruce; Kowalewski, Zbigniew – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2016
The Objective Structured Clinical Exam (OSCE) is a widely used method of assessment in medical education. Rater cognition has become an important area of inquiry in the medical education assessment literature generally, and in the OSCE literature specifically, because of concerns about potential compromises of validity. In this study, a novel…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Licensing Examinations (Professions), Evaluators, Medical Students
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Maslej, Marta M.; Rain, Marina; Fong, Katrina; Oatley, Keith; Mar, Raymond A. – Creativity Research Journal, 2014
Empirical studies of personality traits in creative writers have demonstrated mixed findings, perhaps due to issues of sampling, measurement, and the reporting of statistical information. The goal of this study is to quantify the personality structure of aspiring creative writers according to a modern hierarchal model of trait personality. A…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Personality Traits, Correlation, Hierarchical Linear Modeling
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Fung, Karen; ElAtia, Samira – TESL Canada Journal, 2015
Using Hierarchical Linear Modelling (HLM), this study aimed to identify factors such as ESL/ELL/EAL status that would predict students' reading performance in an English language arts exam taken across Canada. Using data from the 2007 administration of the Pan-Canadian Assessment Program (PCAP) along with the accompanying surveys for students and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Predictor Variables, English (Second Language)
Bass, Gwen – Ronald H. Fredrickson Center for School Counseling Outcome Research & Evaluation, 2015
The Ronald H. Fredrickson Center for School Counseling Outcome Research & Evaluation provides quarterly research briefs that summarize the exemplary outcome research completed in the field of school counseling. This research brief summarizes "Do School Bullying and Student-Teacher Relationships Matter for Academic Achievement? A…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Peer Relationship, Teacher Student Relationship, Bullying
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Lam, Shui-fong; Jimerson, Shane; Wong, Bernard P. H.; Kikas, Eve; Shin, Hyeonsook; Veiga, Feliciano H.; Hatzichristou, Chryse; Polychroni, Fotini; Cefai, Carmel; Negovan, Valeria; Stanculescu, Elena; Yang, Hongfei; Liu, Yi; Basnett, Julie; Duck, Robert; Farrell, Peter; Nelson, Brett; Zollneritsch, Josef – School Psychology Quarterly, 2014
The objective of the present study was to develop a scale that is appropriate for use internationally to measure affective, behavioral, and cognitive dimensions of student engagement. Psychometric properties of this scale were examined with data of 3,420 students (7th, 8th, and 9th grade) from 12 countries (Austria, Canada, China, Cyprus, Estonia,…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Foreign Countries, Learner Engagement, Psychometrics