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Sims, Darcey M.; Lonigan, Christopher J. – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2012
Several forms of assessment tools, including behavioral rating scales and objective tests such as the Continuous Performance Test (CPT), can be used to measure inattentive and hyperactive/impulsive behaviors associated with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). However, research with school-age children has shown that the correlations…
Descriptors: Evidence, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Conceptual Tempo, Performance Tests
Huntley, Renee M.; And Others – 1979
An investigation of: (1) the relationship between the American College Test (ACT) English Usage Test scores and demonstrated writing proficiency, and (2) the relationships between and among other objective tests and writing proficiency was undertaken, using three samples of college freshmen. Although results indicated a moderately high…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Expository Writing, Higher Education, Language Proficiency
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Kane, Michael T. – Evaluation and the Health Professions, 1992
A proposed model for the validity of measures of professional competence treats validation as the evaluation of inferences drawn from test scores, focusing on evaluation, generalization, and extrapolation. The model is used to indicate strengths and weaknesses of assessments of professional competence: observations of performance, simulations, and…
Descriptors: Competence, Evaluation Methods, Generalization, Inferences