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National Center on Improving Literacy, 2022
There are many available screeners for reading and other education or social-emotional outcomes. This brief outlines important things to consider when choosing and using a screener.
Descriptors: Screening Tests, Literacy, Social Emotional Learning, Decision Making
Austin, G.; Bates, S.; Duerr, M. – WestED (NJ1), 2005
The California Healthy Kids Survey (CHKS) is a comprehensive youth health risk and resilience data collection service sponsored by the California Department of Education (CDE). This part of the guidebook will assist practitioners in understanding, interpreting, and deriving the maximum benefit from the CHKS results. It provides a basic road map…
Descriptors: Information Dissemination, Validity, Reliability, Data Analysis
Merriam, Sharan B. – 1998
This book offers a resource guide for qualitative researchers in education, discussing data collection techniques, data analysis, reporting, and the issues of validity, reliability, and ethics. Part 1 reviews the nature and design of qualitative research; it discusses various types of qualitative research (including case studies), and how to…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Evaluation Methods
Gabriel, Roy M.; And Others – 1990
This consumer's guide provides descriptive information about currently available surveys of student alcohol and other drug (AOD) use. Its purposes are to inform schools and communities about the instruments available to survey student AOD use, and to delineate the issues faced by educators while selecting or developing a survey instrument to…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Data Interpretation, Drug Abuse, Elementary Secondary Education
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Tague-Sutcliffe, Jean – Information Processing and Management, 1992
This overview of the research process for the novice information retrieval (IR) researcher provides guidance on selecting a research question, choosing the type of test, defining variables, developing or using databases, finding and processing queries, assigning treatments to experimental units, collecting and analyzing the data, and presenting…
Descriptors: Databases, Efficiency, Experiments, Information Retrieval
Reilly, Richard R.; And Others – 1977
Principles and guidelines for the use of expert judgment of experiential learning are outlined. The report deals with a number of basic issues that apply to expert judgment, such as the role of the evaluator in defining criteria, and structuring the assessment procedure so that it will be reliable and valid. The importance of establishing…
Descriptors: Adults, Bias, College Students, Essays
Gorth, William Phillip; Perkins, Marcy R. – 1979
This resource document represents the integration of both practice and theory related to minimum competency testing (MCT), and is largely based on information collected in a nationwide survey of MCT programs. Chapter 1, To Implement or Not to Implement MCT, by Marcy R. Perkins, presents a definition of MCT and a discussion of the perceived…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Competence, Diffusion, Elementary Secondary Education