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Peer reviewedDorans, Neil J.; Lyu, C. Felicia; Pommerich, Mary; Houston, Walter M. – College and University, 1997
This study developed concordant relationships between American College Testing Program and Scholastic Assessment Test scores for students taking both examinations between October 1994 and December 1996. Fourteen universities and two state education departments participated in the study. Text provides information on data collection, sample…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Admission Criteria, College Entrance Examinations, Data Collection
Peer reviewedKlein, Stephen P. – Journal of Personnel Evaluation in Education, 1998
Discusses how recent court decisions and the move toward performance assessment may affect the adverse impact, reliability, validity, and pass-fail standards of teacher-certification tests. Recommendations are made for tests that combine multiple-choice items with open-ended tasks. (SLD)
Descriptors: Constructed Response, Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, Multiple Choice Tests
Zigler, Edward; Bennett-Gates, Dianne; Hodapp, Robert; Henrich, Christopher C. – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 2002
Analysis of data from 661 students with cultural-familial mental retardation yielded a 37-item, 7-scale personality instrument that confirmed five hypothesized factors of Positive Reaction Tendency, Negative Reaction Tendency, Effectance Motivator, Expectancy of Success, and Outerdirectedness and identified two additional factors of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Creativity, Emotional Response
Direct linkWadsworth, Martha E.; Rieckmann, Traci; Benson, Molly A.; Compas, Bruce E. – Journal of Community Psychology, 2004
This study tested the factor structure of coping and stress responses in Navajo adolescents and examined the reliability and validity of the Responses to Stress Questionnaire (RSQ; Connor-Smith, Compas, Wadsworth, Thomsen, & Saltzman, 2000) with this population. Confirmatory factor analyses revealed that a correlated five-factor model of…
Descriptors: Navajo (Nation), American Indians, Stress Management, Factor Structure
Carter, Shani D. – Human Resource Development Quarterly, 2005
The 1990s and early 2000s saw the increased development of advanced training, skills standards, and certification exams by private organizations in the United States. Employers began accepting these skill certifications in lieu of traditional on-the-job training, thereby encouraging employees to acquire more credentials. This article examines the…
Descriptors: Supply and Demand, On the Job Training, Certification, Educational Certificates
Tyson, Edgar H. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2006
Objective: This study tests the validity of the Rap-music Attitude and Perception (RAP) Scale, a 1-page, 24-item measure of a person's thoughts and feelings surrounding the effects and content of rap music. The RAP was designed as a rapid assessment instrument for youth programs and practitioners using rap music and hip hop culture in their work…
Descriptors: Music, Structural Equation Models, Test Validity, Factor Structure
Capella, Michele E.; Turner, Ronna C. – Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, 2004
Although state agencies are required by law to assess their consumers' satisfaction with vocational rehabilitation (VR), each state uses its own instrument to measure satisfaction. This not only makes comparisons across states impossible but also means that the quality of these instruments varies widely from state to state. As with other…
Descriptors: Vocational Rehabilitation, State Agencies, Test Construction, Satisfaction
Gottfredson, Stephen D.; Moriarty, Laura J. – Crime & Delinquency, 2006
Statistically based risk assessment devices are widely used in criminal justice settings. Their promise remains largely unfulfilled, however, because assumptions and premises requisite to their development and application are routinely ignored and/or violated. This article provides a brief review of the most salient of these assumptions and…
Descriptors: Risk, Justice, Criminals, Crime
Scahill, Lawrence; McDougle, Christopher J.; Williams, Susan K.; Dimitropoulos, Anastasia; Aman, Michael G.; McCracken, James T.; Tierney, Elaine; Arnold, L. Eugene; Cronin, Pegeen; Grados, Marco; Ghuman, Jaswinder; Koenig, Kathleen; Lam, Kristen S. L.; McGough, James; Posey, David J.; Ritz, Louise; Swiezy, Naomi B.; Vitiello, Benedetto – Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2006
Objective: To examine the psychometric properties of the Children's Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scales (CYBOCS) modified for pervasive developmental disorders (PDDs). Method: Raters from five Research Units on Pediatric Psychopharmacology (RUPP) Autism Network were trained to reliability. The modified scale (CYBOCS-PDD), which contains only…
Descriptors: Children, Severity (of Disability), Test Reliability, Behavior Disorders
Cox, Enid O.; Green, Kathy E.; Seo, Honglan; Inaba, Miyuki; Quillen, Alicia Alyla – Gerontologist, 2006
Purpose: Measures are lacking that address the challenges that people think they face in their roles as elderly care receivers. However, the development of a sense of efficacy in this role by mentally competent care receivers is critical to successful partnerships between caregivers and care receivers. The purpose of this article is to report the…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Caregivers, Geriatrics, Factor Structure
Kyriakides, Leonidas; Kaloyirou, Chrystalla; Lindsay, Geoff – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2006
Background: Bullying is a problem in schools in many countries. There would be a benefit in the availability of a psychometrically sound instrument for its measurement, for use by teachers and researchers. The Olweus Bully/Victim Questionnaire has been used in a number of studies but comprehensive evidence on its validity is not available. Aims:…
Descriptors: Mathematical Formulas, Probability, Victims of Crime, Student Behavior
Download full textCook, Bryan G.; Cameron, David L.; Tankersley, Melody – Journal of Special Education, 2007
The purpose of this investigation was twofold: (a) to explore the use of a new rating scale that measures teachers' attitudes toward their students and (b) to investigate the attitudes of inclusive teachers toward their students with disabilities using the rating scale. Fifty inclusive elementary teachers in 12 northeast Ohio schools rated all of…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Validity, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Inclusive Schools
Fisher, Celia B.; Fried, Adam L.; Anushko, Andrea – Journal of American College Health, 2007
Objective: The authors developed and validated measures of college drinking expectations, psychosocial influences, and values. Participants: Freshmen at college entry (N = 320) and the end of freshman year (N = 420) participated. Methods: The College Drinking Influences Survey, administered in paper and Web-based versions, consists of 3 distinct…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Measures (Individuals), Factor Analysis, Social Influences
Alderson, J. Charles; And Others – 1995
The guide is intended for teachers who must construct language tests and for other professionals who may need to construct, evaluate, or use the results of language tests. Most examples are drawn from the field of English-as-a-Second-Language instruction in the United Kingdom, but the principles and practices described may be applied to the…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, English (Second Language), Interrater Reliability, Language Tests
Armstrong, William B. – 1994
As part of an effort to statistically validate the placement tests used in California's San Diego Community College District (SDCCD) a study was undertaken to review the criteria- and content-related validity of the Assessment and Placement Services (APS) reading and writing tests. Evidence of criteria and content validity was gathered from…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College English, Community Colleges, Correlation
