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Pérez Cañado, María Luisa; Rascón Moreno, Diego; Cueva López, Valentina – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2023
This paper makes available to the broader educational community the instruments which have been originally designed and validated within the European project "CLIL for all: Attention to diversity in bilingual education" ("ADiBE") to determine how diversity is being catered to across a broad array of CLIL contexts in European…
Descriptors: Content and Language Integrated Learning, Barriers, Best Practices, Diversity
Carrie L. Bonilla – Hispania, 2024
This article details the challenges and best practices of evaluating second language learners for placement into postsecondary Spanish language courses. The literature on testing for placement purposes in second language acquisition and language testing provides a great deal of insight, but language programs must make many decisions as well that…
Descriptors: Spanish, Language Tests, Placement Tests, Test Validity
Olivia Nicastro – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Advanced practice provider (APP) fellowship programs are comprehensive programs designed for physician assistants (PAs) and nurse practitioners (NPs) to acquire the necessary knowledge and skills to deliver safe, high-quality care in their specialized areas of practice (Advanced Practice Provider Fellowship Accreditation TM, 2023). An APP…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Content Validity, Simulation, Fellowships
Mohammed Ambusaidi – ProQuest LLC, 2022
There is an increased demand on nursing faculty to provide quality teaching and assessment. Nursing faculty are required to ensure accurate assessment of learning through testing and outcome measurement that are critical elements of the evaluation process. Likewise, nursing faculty should implement a logical evaluation system. However, the…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, College Faculty, Test Construction, Test Validity
Peterson, Christina Hamme; Peterson, N. Andrew; Powell, Kristen Gilmore – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2017
Cognitive interviewing (CI) is a method to identify sources of confusion in assessment items and to assess validity evidence on the basis of content and response processes. We introduce readers to CI and describe a process for conducting such interviews and analyzing the results. Recommendations for best practice are provided.
Descriptors: Test Items, Test Construction, Interviews, Test Validity
Bahr, Michael W.; Quach, Heather L.; Mirth, Christina A.; Birkett, Kristina A.; Gillum, Michelle E.; Underwood, Heather M. – Professional Development in Education, 2020
This study focused on the development of the Problem-Solving Team Effectiveness Scale, a measure used by practitioners to assess the professional learning of a problem-solving team (PST) engaging in the technical aspects of intervention selection, implementation, and evaluation. Several best practices by PSTs were initially identified through a…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Likert Scales, Consultants, Consultation Programs
Watson, Joshua C. – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2017
Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) is a data reduction technique used to condense data into smaller sets of summary variables by identifying underlying factors potentially accounting for patterns of collinearity among said variables. Using an illustrative example, the 5 general steps of EFA are described with best practices for decision making…
Descriptors: Evidence, Factor Structure, Factor Analysis, Test Construction
College Board, 2023
Over the past several years, content experts, psychometricians, and researchers have been hard at work developing, refining, and studying the digital SAT. The work is grounded in foundational best practices and advances in measurement and assessment design, with fairness for students informing all of the work done. This paper shares learnings from…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Psychometrics, Computer Assisted Testing, Best Practices
Egbert, Jesse – Language Testing, 2017
The use of corpora and corpus linguistic methods in language testing research is increasing at an accelerated pace. The growing body of language testing research that uses corpus linguistic data is a testament to their utility in test development and validation. Although there are many reasons to be optimistic about the future of using corpus data…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Computational Linguistics, Best Practices
Hazel, Cynthia E.; Newman, Daniel S.; Barrett, Courtenay A. – Journal of Educational & Psychological Consultation, 2016
The evidence base for school-based consultation practice and training is limited by a small number of studies, possibly due to unique challenges in researching consultation. For example, there are myriad variables to measure and idiosyncratic cultural and contextual factors to account for when investigating what works, for whom, and in what…
Descriptors: Consultation Programs, Surveys, Research, School Activities
Rupp, André A. – Applied Measurement in Education, 2018
This article discusses critical methodological design decisions for collecting, interpreting, and synthesizing empirical evidence during the design, deployment, and operational quality-control phases for automated scoring systems. The discussion is inspired by work on operational large-scale systems for automated essay scoring but many of the…
Descriptors: Design, Automation, Scoring, Test Scoring Machines
Kingsley, Laurie; Romine, William – European Journal of Educational Research, 2014
Schools and teacher induction programs around the world routinely assess teaching best practice to inform accreditation, tenure/promotion, and professional development decisions. Routine assessment is also necessary to ensure that teachers entering the profession get the assistance they need to develop and succeed. We introduce the Item-Level…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Beginning Teacher Induction, Best Practices
Deane, Thomas; Nomme, Kathy; Jeffery, Erica; Pollock, Carol; Birol, Gülnur – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2016
We followed established best practices in concept inventory design and developed a 12-item inventory to assess student ability in statistical reasoning in biology (Statistical Reasoning in Biology Concept Inventory [SRBCI]). It is important to assess student thinking in this conceptual area, because it is a fundamental requirement of being…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Measures (Individuals), Test Construction, Statistics
Derscheid, Linda E.; Kim, So-Yeun; Zittel, Lauriece L.; Umoren, Josephine; Henry, Beverly W. – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2014
Childhood obesity remains a problem in the United States. Preschool teachers can help to attenuate it but need to have the confidence or self-efficacy to provide healthy practices. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to (a) develop and validate a preschool teacher self-efficacy tool to examine teachers' confidence in addressing the nutrition…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Teacher Effectiveness, Knowledge Level, Child Health
Katz, Irvin R.; Tannenbaum, Richard J. – Journal of Applied Testing Technology, 2014
Web-based standard setting holds promise for reducing the travel and logistical inconveniences of traditional, face-to-face standard setting meetings. However, because there are few published reports of setting standards via remote meeting technology, little is known about the practical potential of the approach, including technical feasibility of…
Descriptors: Standard Setting, Comparative Analysis, Feasibility Studies, Program Implementation
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