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W. Jake Thompson; Amy K. Clark – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2024
In recent years, educators, administrators, policymakers, and measurement experts have called for assessments that support educators in making better instructional decisions. One promising approach to measurement to support instructional decision-making is diagnostic classification models (DCMs). DCMs are flexible psychometric models that…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Instructional Improvement, Evaluation Methods, Models
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Yuan, Lu; Liu, Yanlou; Chen, Ping; Xin, Tao – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2022
Learning progressions can reflect students' continuous in-depth thinking development paths, and their establishment is an iterative process from the construction of hypothetical learning progressions to the verification of that hypotheses. Considering the limitations of the existing verification method of learning progressions based on a rule…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Mathematics Instruction, Fractions, Elementary School Students
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Van Norman, Ethan R. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2023
Sophisticated analytic strategies have been proposed as viable methods to improve the quantification of student improvement and to assist educators in making treatment decisions. The performance of three categories of latent growth modeling techniques (linear, quadratic, and dual change) to capture growth in oral reading fluency in response to a…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Student Reaction, Teaching Methods, Structural Equation Models
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Gordon, Edmund W. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2020
Drawing upon his experience, more than 60 years ago, as a psychometric support person to a very special teacher of brain damaged children, the author of this article reflects on the productive use of educational assessments and data from them to educate - assessment in the service of learning. Findings from the Gordon Commission on the Future of…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Student Evaluation, Special Education Teachers, Educational Assessment