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Elliott, Stephen Nelson; Lei, Pui-Wa; Anthony, Christopher. J.; DiPerna, James Clyde – School Psychology Review, 2023
Universal screening of students is increasing as programs are implemented for improving social emotional learning (SEL) skills. Assessments used to conduct SEL screenings focus on social emotional strengths; however, such assessments can provide a broader characterization of students' wellbeing by concurrently screening for emotional behavior…
Descriptors: Screening Tests, Social Emotional Learning, Well Being, Behavior Problems
Deborah Renae Hollingsworth – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Adolescent mental health is a growing concern in the United States. Children who experience mental health issues struggle in the school environment if their needs are not met. Teachers play a critical role in the classroom when identifying students who struggle with mental health issues. The purposes of this convergent, parallel mixed-methods…
Descriptors: Screening Tests, Social Emotional Learning, Mental Health, Student Welfare
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Kimmia Lyon; Jessica B. Koslouski; Sandra M. Chafouleas; Amy M. Briesch; Jacqueline M. Caemmerer – Grantee Submission, 2025
Existing educational assessments have typically been developed without appropriate attention to the intended and unintended consequences of measure implementation and interpretation. We are developing the Expanding Screening to Support Youth (ESSY) Whole Child Screener using a mixed methods approach that attends to the intended and unintended…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Screening Tests, Validity, Grade 3
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Lappalainen, Kristiina; Savolainen, Hannu; Sointu, Erkko T.; Epstein, Michael H. – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2014
This study investigated the cross-informant agreement among student self-report, teacher report, and parent report on the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire translated into Finnish (SDQ-Fin) and estimated mean convergent and divergent correlations with a sample of fifth-grade Finnish students (N = 588) and the cross-informant agreement among…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Questionnaires, Finno Ugric Languages, Grade 5
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Read, John; von Randow, Janet – International Journal of English Studies, 2013
The increasingly diverse language backgrounds of their students are creating new challenges for English-medium universities. One response in Australian and New Zealand institutions has been to introduce post-entry language assessment (PELA) to identify incoming students who need to enhance their academic language ability. One successful example of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Tests, Academic Discourse, Diagnostic Tests
Baly, Michael W. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation is comprised of three manuscripts and presents a line of research aimed at improving the measurement of bullying in schools. The first manuscript investigated the impact of an educational video on self-reports of bullying. A sample of 1,283 middle school students in randomly assigned classrooms either watched or did not watch an…
Descriptors: Bullying, Measurement Techniques, Video Technology, Self Disclosure (Individuals)
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Hatami, Gissou; Motamed, Niloofar; Ashrafzadeh, Mahshid – Social Indicators Research, 2010
Validity and reliability of Persian adaptation of MSLSS in the 12-18 years, middle and high school students (430 students in grades 6-12 in Bushehr port, Iran) using confirmatory factor analysis by means of LISREL statistical package were checked. Internal consistency reliability estimates (Cronbach's coefficient [alpha]) were all above the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Youth Problems, Life Satisfaction, Measures (Individuals)
Howell, Kenneth W. – Diagnostique, 1990
The Test of Mathematical Abilities is used to identify students (ages 8-18) who are above or below age peers in 5 areas (attitude toward math, vocabulary, computation, general information, and story problems). This paper describes the test's administration, summation of data, standardization, reliability, and validity. (JDD)
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Diagnostic Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted
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Mooij, Ton – Early Child Development and Care, 2000
A pilot study examined the reliability and predictive validity of a screening instrument for Dutch kindergartners. Findings indicated acceptable reliability and predictive validity. Parents could accurately screen their child's language proficiency level, pre-arithmetic level, and degree of extraversion at school entry. Teachers could predict…
Descriptors: Extraversion Introversion, Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Kindergarten Children