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von Davier, Alina A.; Holland, Paul W.; Thayer, Dorothy T. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2004
The Non-Equivalent-groups Anchor Test (NEAT) design has been in wide use since at least the early 1940s. It involves two populations of test takers, P and Q, and makes use of an anchor test to link them. Two linking methods used for NEAT designs are those (a) based on chain equating and (b) that use the anchor test to post-stratify the…
Descriptors: Equated Scores, Evaluation Research, Comparative Testing, Population Groups
Allegrante, John P.; Airhihenbuwa, Collins O.; Auld, M. Elaine; Birch, David A.; Roe, Kathleen M.; Smith, Becky J. – Health Education & Behavior, 2004
During the past 40 years, health education has taken significant steps toward improving quality assurance in professional preparation through individual certification and program approval and accreditation. Although the profession has begun to embrace individual certification, program accreditation in health education has been neither uniformly…
Descriptors: Health Education, Colleges, Public Health, Quality Control
McClure, Kathleen; Pine, Julian M.; Lieven, Elena V. M. – Journal of Child Language, 2006
In the current debate about the abstractness of children's early grammatical knowledge, Tomasello & Abbott-Smith (2002) have suggested that children might first develop "weak" or "partial" representations of abstract syntactic structures. This paper attempts to characterize these structures by comparing the development of constructions around…
Descriptors: Verbs, Child Language, Program Validation, Investigations
Westen, Drew; Nakash, Ora; Thomas, Cannon; Bradley, Rebekah – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2006
The relevance of attachment theory and research for practice has become increasingly clear. The authors describe a series of studies with 3 aims: (a) to validate measures of attachment for use by clinicians with adolescents and adults (b) to examine the relation between attachment and personality pathology, and (c) to ascertain whether factor…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Pathology, Adolescents, Personality Problems
Tyler, Ann A. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2006
Purpose: This commentary, written in response to Alan Kamhi's paper, "Treatment Decisions for Children with Speech-Sound Disorders," further considers the "what" or goal selection process of decision making with the aim of efficiency--getting the most change in the shortest time. Method: My comments reflect a focus on the client values piece of…
Descriptors: Intervention, Reader Response, Inferences, Clinical Diagnosis
Fey, Marc E. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2006
Purpose: This paper is a personal reaction to Gillam and Gillam's treatise on evidence-based decision making in schools. This evaluation focuses principally on the costs and benefits of clinicians' search for external evidence, potential problems associated with efforts to grade that evidence, and the integration of this evidence with "internal"…
Descriptors: Speech Language Pathology, Child Language, Language Impairments, Reader Response
Holden, Gary; Barker, Kathleen; Rosenberg, Gary; Onghena, Patrick – Research on Social Work Practice, 2007
Objective: Assessing the achievement of social work educational outcomes is a requirement of the Council on Social Work Education's Educational Policy and Standards (EPAS). The Evaluation Self-Efficacy Scale (ESE) was created to assess student progress in advanced concentration courses focused on evaluation and thereby provide data regarding…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Outcomes of Education, Pretests Posttests, Construct Validity
Bledsoe, Sarah E.; Weissman, Myrna M.; Mullen, Edward J.; Ponniah, Kathryn; Gameroff, Marc J.; Verdeli, Helen; Mufson, Laura; Fitterling, Heidi; Wickramaratne, Priya – Research on Social Work Practice, 2007
Objectives: A national survey finds that 62% of social work programs do not require didactic and clinical supervision in any empirically supported psychotherapy (EST). The authors report the results of analysis of national survey data using two alternative classifications of EST to determine if the results are because of the definition of EST used…
Descriptors: Definitions, Clinical Supervision (of Teachers), Psychotherapy, Social Work
US Department of Education, 2006
This issue of the Emergency Response and Crisis Management (ERCM) Technical Assistance Center's "ERCMExpress" promotes emergency exercises as an effective way to validate school safety plans. Simulations of emergency situations, or emergency exercises, are integral to a sound school safety plan. They offer opportunities for district and schools to…
Descriptors: Drills (Practice), School Safety, Emergency Programs, Crisis Management
Evaluating the Latent Structure of the MMPI-2 F(p) Scale in a Forensic Sample: A Taxometric Analysis
Strong, David R.; Glassmire, David M.; Frederick, Richard I.; Greene, Roger L. – Psychological Assessment, 2006
P. A. Arbisi and Y. S. Ben-Porath (1995) originally proposed that the Infrequency Psychopathology scale, F(p), be used as the final step in an algorithm to determine the validity of a Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) protocol. The current study used taxometric procedures to determine the latent structure of F(p) among…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Test Validity, Psychopathology, Measures (Individuals)
Harned, Kay – 1986
This report describes a process to determine the degree to which labor market information guided the program decisions of local planning and advisory groups in Illinois' Education for Employment system. The first part focuses on the program approval application and local validation process. It offers recommendations for the sequential contents of…
Descriptors: Career Education, Decision Making, Educational Planning, Labor Market
Southwest Educational Development Lab., Austin, TX. – 1979
This report documents the proceedings of a conference on the validation of exemplary educational programs, products, and practices presented by the Regional Exchange of the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (SEDL/RX). It is different from other conference syntheses, as it includes the process for creating the conference as well as the…
Descriptors: Conferences, Evaluation Methods, Guides, Program Validation
Apling, Richard N. – 1989
Contributing to the debate on the nature of the reauthorization of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act, this report discusses three proposals that would establish standards of performance for vocational education and analyzes experiences from performance standards implemented as part of other social and educational programs, such as the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Assessment, Educational Policy, Federal Aid
Frost, Dean E. – 1985
Fiedler's Contingency Model of Leadership Effectiveness, which asserts that leadership effectiveness is a function of leadership style and situational context, is the basis for a leadership training program called Leader Match. This study attempts to replicate previous research which has demonstrated improved performance attributable to the Leader…
Descriptors: Fire Fighters, Leadership Effectiveness, Leadership Styles, Leadership Training
Adkins, Deberie Gomez; And Others – 1984
Schools of the Dallas Independent School District have developed procedures to implement and monitor school improvement measures. The district aims to improve student achievement in four areas: functional literacy, mathematics, reading, and basic language arts. Participants in instructional improvement include teachers, principals, administrators,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Improvement, Program Evaluation