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Boda, Phillip A.; Bathia, Shruti; Linn, Marcia C. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2021
Integrating sophisticated graphical analysis skills as they learn science is essential for K-12 students and emphasized in current standards. In this study, we iteratively designed a Graphing Integration Inventory (GII) over a three-year period, while also supporting students to develop their capabilities to use graphs to learn science content in…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Graphs, Teaching Methods, Science Instruction
Abedi, Jamal; Zhang, Yu; Rowe, Susan E.; Lee, Hansol – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2020
Research indicates that the performance-gap between English Language Learners (ELLs) and their non-ELL peers is partly due to ELLs' difficulty in understanding assessment language. Accommodations have been shown to narrow this performance-gap, but many accommodations studies have not used a randomized design and are based on relatively small…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Achievement Gap, Mathematics Tests, Standards
Kyle, Kristopher; Choe, Ann Tai; Eguchi, Masaki; LaFlair, Geoff; Ziegler, Nicole – ETS Research Report Series, 2021
A key piece of a validity argument for a language assessment tool is clear overlap between assessment tasks and the target language use (TLU) domain (i.e., the domain description inference). The TOEFL 2000 Spoken and Written Academic Language (T2K-SWAL) corpus, which represents a variety of academic registers and disciplines in traditional…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Language Tests
Jensen, Bryant; Pérez Martínez, María Guadalupe; García Medina, Adán Moisés; Martínez, José Felipe; Benito Cox, Carolina; Larsen, Ross – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2020
Measures of teaching are used internationally to understand and improve quality in early education with little consideration for ecological validity. In this study, we analyze videos gathered in 58 K-1 classrooms in Central Mexico to evaluate the validity and reliability of scores from an observational tool developed in the U.S. and used…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Classroom Environment, Kindergarten, Grade 1
Staples, Shelley; Biber, Douglas; Reppen, Randi – Modern Language Journal, 2018
One of the central considerations in the validity argument for the TOEFL iBT is the relationship between the language on the exam and the language required for university courses. Corpus linguistics has recently been shown to be an effective way to explore this relationship, which can also be considered as an aspect of authenticity. Applying…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Computer Assisted Testing, English (Second Language), Language Tests
Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaías, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2018
The aim of the 2018 International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA) conference was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There have been advances in both cognitive…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Sarsani, Mahender Reddy – Journal on Educational Psychology, 2007
The present study was aimed to assess the teachers' encouragement in the classroom for the promotion of students' creativity. A survey method was used for the present research with a sample of 373 subjects from ninth class. For collection of data four instruments were used, namely Student Information Sheet (SIS), two tests of "Creative…
Descriptors: Teacher Behavior, Creativity, Surveys, Grade 9
Johnson, Granville B. – 1969
This teacher rating scale was sent to principals of alumni. The first six variables concern personality; the next 10 are directly associated with teaching. A factor analysis is being made. No statistical test of validity was made due to lack of a criterion measure. However, rater bias and test unreliability lower validity. (See TM 001 300 for…
Descriptors: Alumni, Classroom Communication, Creativity, Individual Characteristics

Aitken, Kenneth G. – 1976
This paper presents some reasons for reconsidering the use of discrete structure-point tests of language proficiency, and suggests an alternative basis for designing proficiency tests. Discrete point tests are one of the primary tools of the audio-lingual method of teaching a foreign language and are based on certain assumptions, including the…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Cloze Procedure, Communicative Competence (Languages), Error Analysis (Language)
Oller, John W., Jr. – 1977
This paper questions the purpose of testing in second language instruction. Comments are based on an examination of tests used by the Defense Language Institute for students of English as a second language. Two kinds of tests are used: the English Comprehension Level (ECL), used primarily as a basis for setting exit requirements, and "Book…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language), Formative Evaluation, Item Analysis