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Direct linkEstaji, Masoomeh; Hashemi, Mina – Language Testing in Asia, 2022
This study intended to explore the different types of phraseological units in IELTS academic writing task 2 and probe into the IELTS candidates' perceptions of phraseological competence. To this end, a corpus entailing 100 essays (26,423 words) written for IELTS writing task 2 was scrutinized, through which phraseological units were extracted and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Academic Language, Student Attitudes
Mtshali, Muntuwenkosi Abraham; Ngwenya, Jabulisile Cynthia; Myende, Thandanani Hansford – Perspectives in Education, 2022
The purpose of this study is to examine teachers' perceptions of teacher factors affecting the dwindling Grade 12 learners' performance in Business Studies National Senior Certificate (NSC) examinations at the rural Umbumbulu circuit of Umlazi district, in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The study employed a qualitative research…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Grade 12, Academic Achievement, Business Education
Download full textGeiser, Saul – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2022
Eligibility is a policy construct unique to California. UC and CSU are the only US universities that distinguish between eligibility for admission and admission itself and set separate requirements for each. The eligibility construct derives originally from California's 1960 Master Plan for Higher Education, which famously mandated that UC admit…
Descriptors: State Colleges, College Admission, Eligibility, High School Graduates
Florida Department of Education, 2022
This technical assistance paper provides policy and guidance to individuals with test administration responsibilities in adult education programs. The Florida assessment policies and guidelines presented in this technical assessment paper are appropriate for state and federal reporting. Therefore, guidance and procedures regarding the selection…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Evaluation, Testing, Educational Policy
Buschman, Matthew Walker – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The COVID-19 Pandemic has presented the educational system with challenges that have caused adaptive instruction techniques for all student populations in one way or another. The researcher chose to focus specifically on the impact of adaptive instruction as a result of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the area of mathematics by evaluating student growth…
Descriptors: Educational Change, COVID-19, Pandemics, Standardized Tests
David J. Francis; Paulina A. Kulesz; Shiva Khalaf; Martin Walczak; Sharon R. Vaughn – Grantee Submission, 2022
Intervention research in education is sometimes criticized for the use of experimenter developed assessments, especially when these are over aligned with treatment. At the same time, intervention researchers sometimes prefer locally developed assessments because they appear to be more sensitive to treatment effects even when the test is not…
Descriptors: Intervention, Standardized Tests, Test Items, Grade 8
F. Alethea Marti; Nadereh Pourat; Christopher Lee; Bonnie T. Zima – Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 2022
While many standardized assessment measures exist to track child mental health treatment outcomes, the degree to which such tools have been adequately tested for reliability and validity across race, ethnicity, and class is uneven. This paper examines the corpus of published tests of psychometric properties for the ten standardized measures used…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Outcome Measures, Psychometrics, Standardized Tests
Jilli Jung; Maithreyi Gopalan – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2022
Youth voter turnout remains stubbornly low and unresponsive to civic education. Rigorous evaluations of the adoption of civic tests for high school graduation by some states on youth voter turnout remain limited. We estimate the impact of a recent, state-mandated civics test policy--the Civics Education Initiative (CEI)--on youth voter turnout by…
Descriptors: Youth, Student Participation, Citizen Participation, Voting
Tang, Xiaodan; Schultz, Matthew – Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 2020
This study aims to examine the potential impacts on repeat examinees' performance by reusing simulation-based items in a high-stakes standardized assessment. We examined change patterns of item scores, ability estimate, score pattern change, response time and compared the performance of repeat examinees who have received repeat items and those who…
Descriptors: Test Items, Repetition, Simulation, Standardized Tests
Sarroub, Loukia K.; England, William R. – Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research, 2020
Operationalizing space is challenging because the factors impacting education are often located at different scales. Combining Geographic Information Systems and ethnographic analyses allows researchers to conduct studies at both micro- and macro-scales, thus illuminating the connections between local and global phenomena. In our first case, we…
Descriptors: Geographic Information Systems, Ethnography, Refugees, Migration
Green Saraisky, Nancy; Pizmony-Levy, Oren – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2020
Organizational networks shape education policy by influencing power holders and elites, but do they have similar effects on grassroots activists? We use data from the National Survey on Opting Out (2016 and 2018; n = 2,909) to examine the role of organizational networks in mobilizing activists in the opt-out movement (a movement in which parents…
Descriptors: Activism, Organizations (Groups), Social Networks, Educational Policy
Gill, Scherto – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2020
During the COVID-19 lockdown, schools are closed, exams have been cancelled, and teaching and learning are taking an unprecedented form. In this process, two realities are brought to light. On the one hand, the pandemic highlights the widening gaps in society and the part that the educational system plays in privileging students from advantageous…
Descriptors: Testing, Testing Problems, COVID-19, Pandemics
Farmer, Cristan A.; Kaat, Aaron J.; Thurm, Audrey; Anselm, Irina; Akshoomoff, Natacha; Bennett, Amanda; Berry, Leandra; Bruchey, Aleksandra; Barshop, Bruce A.; Berry-Kravis, Elizabeth; Bianconi, Simona; Cecil, Kim M.; Davis, Robert J.; Ficicioglu, Can; Porter, Forbes D.; Wainer, Allison; Goin-Kochel, Robin P.; Leonczyk, Caroline; Guthrie, Whitney; Koeberl, Dwight; Love-Nichols, Jamie; Mamak, Eva; Mercimek-Andrews, Saadet; Thomas, Rebecca P.; Spiridigliozzi, Gail A.; Sullivan, Nancy; Sutton, Vernon R.; Udhnani, Manisha D.; Waisbren, Susan E.; Miller, Judith S. – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2020
Although norm-referenced scores are essential to the identification of disability, they possess several features which affect their sensitivity to change. Norm-referenced scores often decrease over time among people with neurodevelopmental disorders who exhibit slower-than-average increases in ability. Further, the reliability of norm-referenced…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Norm Referenced Tests, Scores, Ability
Vierula, Jonna; Haavisto, Elina; Hupli, Maija; Talman, Kirsi – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2020
Higher education student selection has significant societal, institutional and individual impacts. Thousands of applicants apply only for nursing, one of the major higher education disciplines. As the nursing profession is characterised by cognitive requirements, higher education institutions assess the learning skills of nursing applicants.…
Descriptors: Nursing Students, Learning Strategies, Admission Criteria, Student Evaluation
Sutter, Claudia C.; Campbell, Laurie O.; Lambie, Glenn W. – Computers in the Schools, 2020
The present study investigated the predictability of a computer-adaptive, curriculum-based reading assessment for measuring second-grade students' overall and comprehension reading achievement on a standardized reading achievement test. Specifically, second-grade student scores (N = 428) of the Istation's Indicators of Progress for Early Reading…
Descriptors: Prediction, Standardized Tests, Reading Tests, Grade 2
