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Clemens, Nathan H.; Fuchs, Douglas – Grantee Submission, 2021
Many seem to believe that researcher-made tests are unnecessary, if not inappropriate, for evaluating reading comprehension interventions. We suggest that this view reflects a zeitgeist in which researcher-made (proximal) tests that align with the researchers' interventions are closely scrutinized and often devalued, whereas commercially developed…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Reading Comprehension, Program Evaluation, Reading Programs
Fuchs, Douglas; And Others – 1981
Task complexity in terms of symbolic mediation (inner thought) as a determinant of differential test performance and the prediction of dissimilar functioning were examined. Preschool children with moderate to profound speech and/or language handicaps were tested using: (1) a sound-in-words subtest of the Test of Articulation (TA); (2) Action…
Descriptors: Educational Testing, Evaluation Criteria, Examiners, Language Handicaps
Fuchs, Lynn S.; Fuchs, Douglas – School Administrator, 1999
Test accommodations are changes in standardized test conditions to equalize opportunities between students with or without disabilities by achieving valid scores. The Individuals with Disabilities Act 1997 amendments require states and districts to include disabled students in accountability programs. Assumptions, practical implications,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
Fuchs, Douglas; Fuchs, Lynn S. – 1983
Prior research indicates that language-handicapped children obtain higher test scores when tested by personally familiar examiners than when tested by personally unfamiliar examiners. The present investigation inquired whether this finding is due to examinees' actual differential performance across the two examiner conditions, or whether it is the…
Descriptors: Examiners, Experimenter Characteristics, Language Handicaps, Performance Factors
Fuchs, Douglas; Fuchs, Lynn S. – 1985
This article presents a meta-analysis of the effects of examiner familiarity/unfamiliarity on children's performance during individual testing. Data came from 22 controlled studies involving 1489 subjects. In a typical study, the effect of examiner familiarity raised test performance by .35 standard deviations. Differential performance favoring…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Disabilities, Effect Size, Examiners
Fuchs, Douglas – 1985
This article presents a quantitative synthesis of examiner familiarity effects on Caucasian and minority students' test performance. Fourteen controlled studies were coded in terms of methodological quality (high vs. low) and race-ethnicity (Caucasian vs. Black and Hispanic). An analogue to analysis of variance conducted on weighted unbiased…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Blacks, Effect Size, Elementary Secondary Education
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Fuchs, Douglas; Fuchs, Lynn S. – Exceptional Children, 1989
Presented is a quantitative synthesis of examiner familiarity effects on Caucasian and minority students' test performance. Fourteen controlled studies were coded in terms of methodological quality and race-ethnicity. Caucasian students performed similarly in both familiar and unfamiliar examiner conditions, while Black and Hispanic children…
Descriptors: Blacks, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Examiners
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Fuchs, Douglas; And Others – Exceptional Children, 1987
This study analyzed user manuals and technical supplements of 27 aptitude and achievement tests to determine whether disabled children were included in development of the tests' norms, items, reliability indices, and validity indices. Most test developers provided scant evidence that their tests were valid for use with disabled students. (JDD)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
Fuchs, Lynn S.; Fuchs, Douglas – 1985
This meta-analysis explored how measuring student progress toward long vs. short-term goals affects achievement outcomes. Twenty-one controlled studies were coded in terms of measuring method (toward long- vs. short-term goals) and type of achievement outcome (probe-like vs. global achievement test). Analogues to analysis of variance conducted on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Criterion Referenced Tests, Disabilities, Effect Size