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Suzanna Dooley; Tammy Hopper; Rachael Doyle; Orla Gilheaney; Margaret Walshe – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2025
Background: Individuals with dementia have communication limitations resulting from cognitive impairments that define the syndrome. Whereas there are numerous cognitive assessments for individuals with dementia, there are far fewer communication assessments. The Profiling Communication Ability in Dementia (P-CAD) was developed to address this gap.…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Communication Problems, Dementia, Intellectual Disability
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Parker, David C.; Stewart, Lisa H.; Thomson, Susan; Kaminski, Ruth A. – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2021
Vocabulary skills are important for overall reading competence, but vocabulary assessment approaches that inform instructional decision-making and are sensitive to improvement are limited. This article describes a process for developing vocabulary measures designed to facilitate data-driven decision-making for kindergarten and first-grade students…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Kindergarten, Grade 1, Elementary School Students
Beula M. Magimairaj; Philip Capin; Sandra L. Gillam; Sharon Vaughn; Greg Roberts; Anna-Maria Fall; Ronald B. Gillam – Grantee Submission, 2022
Purpose: Our aim was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the online administered format of the Test of Narrative Language--Second Edition (TNL-2; Gillam & Pearson, 2017), given the importance of assessing children's narrative ability and considerable absence of psychometric studies of spoken language assessments administered online.…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Language Tests, Story Telling, Language Impairments
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Tavares, Walter; Brydges, Ryan; Myre, Paul; Prpic, Jason; Turner, Linda; Yelle, Richard; Huiskamp, Maud – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2018
Assessment of clinical competence is complex and inference based. Trustworthy and defensible assessment processes must have favourable evidence of validity, particularly where decisions are considered high stakes. We aimed to organize, collect and interpret validity evidence for a high stakes simulation based assessment strategy for certifying…
Descriptors: Competence, Simulation, Allied Health Personnel, Certification
Beula M. Magimairaj; Philip Capin; Sandra L. Gillam; Sharon Vaughn; Greg Roberts; Anna-Maria Fall; Ronald B. Gillam – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2022
Purpose: Our aim was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the online administered format of the Test of Narrative Language--Second Edition (TNL-2; Gillam & Pearson, 2017), given the importance of assessing children's narrative ability and considerable absence of psychometric studies of spoken language assessments administered online.…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Language Tests, Story Telling, Language Impairments
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Davis, Larry; Norris, John – ETS Research Report Series, 2021
The elicited imitation task (EIT), in which language learners listen to a series of spoken sentences and repeat each one verbatim, is a commonly used measure of language proficiency in second language acquisition research. The "TOEFL® Essentials"™ test includes an EIT as a holistic measure of speaking proficiency, referred to as the…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Language Proficiency, Speech Communication, Language Tests
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Cohen, Yoav; Levi, Effi; Ben-Simon, Anat – Applied Measurement in Education, 2018
In the current study, two pools of 250 essays, all written as a response to the same prompt, were rated by two groups of raters (14 or 15 raters per group), thereby providing an approximation to the essay's true score. An automated essay scoring (AES) system was trained on the datasets and then scored the essays using a cross-validation scheme. By…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Automation, Scoring, Computer Assisted Testing
Benton, Stephen L.; Li, Dan – IDEA Center, Inc., 2018
This technical report describes the results of analyses performed on data collected from 2013 to 2017, using the IDEA Feedback System for Administrators (FSA). The FSA is used to gather impressions from core constituents about an administrator's performance of relevant administrative roles, as well as her/his leadership style, interpersonal…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Administrators, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role
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Maxwell, Bruce; Boon, Helen; Tanchuk, Nicolas; Rauwerda, Bryan – Journal of Moral Education, 2021
This article documents the adaptation, piloting and validation of a measure of teachers' ethical sensitivity. To create the test, we modified a measure from dentistry drawing on literature in teacher professional ethics and drew on the expertise of professional ethics scholars and practitioners. Based on the results of Rasch analysis combined with…
Descriptors: Ethics, Moral Values, Scores, Teacher Education Programs
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Berger, Jean-Louis; Karabenick, Stuart A. – Educational Assessment, 2016
Despite their significant contributions to research on self-regulated learning, those favoring online and trace approaches have questioned the use of self-report to assess learners' use of learning strategies. An important rejoinder to such criticisms consists of examining the validity of self-report items. The present study was designed to assess…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Metacognition, Learning Strategies, Self Disclosure (Individuals)
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Thawabieh, Ahmad M. – Journal of Curriculum and Teaching, 2017
This study aimed to compare between the students' self-assessment and teachers' assessment. The study sample consisted of 71 students at Tafila Technical University studying Introduction to Psychology course. The researcher used 2 students' self-assessment tools and 2 tests. The results indicated that students can assess themselves accurately if…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Student Evaluation, Psychology
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Tanner, Nicholas; Eklund, Katie; Kilgus, Stephen P.; Johnson, Austin H. – School Psychology Review, 2018
Data derived from universal screening procedures are increasingly utilized by schools to identify and provide additional support to students at risk for behavioral and emotional concerns. As screening has the potential to be resource intensive, effort has been placed on the development of efficient screening procedures, including brief behavior…
Descriptors: Screening Tests, At Risk Students, Behavior Problems, Emotional Problems
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Rios, Joseph A.; Sparks, Jesse R.; Zhang, Mo; Liu, Ou Lydia – ETS Research Report Series, 2017
Proficiency with written communication (WC) is critical for success in college and careers. As a result, institutions face a growing challenge to accurately evaluate their students' writing skills to obtain data that can support demands of accreditation, accountability, or curricular improvement. Many current standardized measures, however, lack…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Writing Tests, College Outcomes Assessment
Dockterman, Daniel Milo – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Student surveys have gained prominence in recent years as a way to give students a voice in their learning process, and teacher self-reports have always been an effective instrument for revealing the planning, intentions, and expectations behind a given lesson. Though student and teacher surveys are widely used, extant research in education has…
Descriptors: Outcome Measures, Teacher Evaluation, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Evaluation Methods
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Temel, Gülhan Orekici; Erdogan, Semra; Selvi, Hüseyin; Kaya, Irem Ersöz – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2016
Studies based on longitudinal data focus on the change and development of the situation being investigated and allow for examining cases regarding education, individual development, cultural change, and socioeconomic improvement in time. However, as these studies require taking repeated measures in different time periods, they may include various…
Descriptors: Investigations, Sample Size, Longitudinal Studies, Interrater Reliability
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