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Direct linkDecker, Scott L. – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2008
This article reviews issues involved with using norm-referenced measures within an intervention validity model. Methodological examination of intervention validity has become more important as intervention methodologies have become part of federal legislation. However, current practice and federal guidelines often implicitly portray a dichotomy…
Descriptors: Intervention, Federal Legislation, Validity, Psychometrics
Kourtessis, Thomas; Tsigilis, Nikolaos; Maheridou, Maria; Ellinoudis, Theodoros; Kiparissis, Michael; Kioumourtzoglou, Efthimis – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2008
The purpose of this study was to assess the effectiveness of a short intervention program designed to enhance the educators' ability to identify children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD). Twenty early childhood and 20 physical education teachers (n = 40) participated in the study. Participants were randomly assigned into an…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Intervention, Program Effectiveness
Liow, Jong-Leng – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2008
Peer assessment has been studied in various situations and actively pursued as a means by which students are given more control over their learning and assessment achievement. This study investigated the reliability of staff and student assessments in two oral presentations with limited feedback for a school-based thesis course in engineering…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Student Evaluation, Grade Point Average, Peer Evaluation
Altink, Marieke E.; Arias-Vasquez, Alejandro; Franke, Barbara; Slaats-Willemse, Dorine I. E.; Buschgens, Cathelijne J. M.; Rommelse, Nanda N. J.; Fliers, Ellen A.; Anney, Richard; Brookes, Keeley-Joanne; Chen, Wai; Gill, Michael; Mulligan, Aisling; Sonuga-Barke, Edmund; Thompson, Margaret; Sergeant, Joseph A.; Faraone, Stephen V.; Asherson, Philip; Buitelaar, Jan K. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2008
Background: The dopamine receptor D4 ("DRD4") 7-repeat allele and maternal smoking during pregnancy are both considered as risk factors in the aetiology of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), but few studies have been conducted on their interactive effects in causing ADHD. The purpose of this study is to examine the gene by…
Descriptors: Siblings, Smoking, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Pregnancy
Booher-Jennings, Jennifer – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2008
Although high-stakes tests play an increasing role in students' schooling experiences, scholars have not examined these tests as sites for socialisation. Drawing on qualitative data collected at an American urban primary school, this study explores what educators teach students about motivation and effort through high-stakes testing, how students…
Descriptors: Hidden Curriculum, Testing, High Stakes Tests, Males
Rigotti, Thomas; Schyns, Birgit; Mohr, Gisela – Journal of Career Assessment, 2008
Occupational self-efficacy is an important resource for individuals in organizations. To be able to compare the occupational self-efficacy of employees across different countries, equivalent versions of the standard instruments need to be made available in different languages. In this article, the authors report on the structural and construct…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Construct Validity, Foreign Countries, Comparative Education
Napper, Lucy E.; Branson, Catherine M.; Fisher, Dennis G.; Reynolds, Grace L.; Wood, Michelle M. – Journal of Drug Education, 2008
This study examined the validity of a single-item measure of HIV risk stage of change that HIV prevention contractors were required to collect by the California State Office of AIDS. The single-item measure was compared to the more conventional University of Rhode Island Change Assessment (URICA). Participants were members of Los Angeles…
Descriptors: Testing Programs, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Test Validity, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
Park, Jooyong; Choi, Byung-Chul – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2008
A new computerised testing system was used at home to promote learning and also to save classroom instruction time. The testing system combined the features of short-answer and multiple-choice formats. The questions of the multiple-choice problems were presented without the options so that students had to generate answers for themselves; they…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Computer Assisted Testing, Instructional Effectiveness
Crisp, Victoria – Research Papers in Education, 2008
This research set out to compare the quality, length and nature of (1) exam responses in combined question and answer booklets, with (2) responses in separate answer booklets in order to inform choices about response format. Combined booklets are thought to support candidates by giving more information on what is expected of them. Anecdotal…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, High School Students, Test Format, Test Construction
Hargreaves, Melanie; Homer, Matt; Swinnerton, Bronwen – Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 2008
This paper explores gender differential performance in "gifted and talented" 9- and 13-year-olds in a mathematics assessment in England. Boys' and girls' attitudes to mathematics and their views about which gender is better at mathematics are also considered. The study employs the use of a matched sample of boys and girls so that school,…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Academically Gifted
Stoddard, Christiana; Kuhn, Peter – Economics of Education Review, 2008
Beyond some contracted minimum, salaried workers' hours are largely chosen at the worker's discretion and should respond to the strength of contract incentives. Accordingly, we consider the response of teacher hours to accountability and school choice laws introduced in US public schools over the past two decades. Total weekly hours of full-time…
Descriptors: Teacher Behavior, School Choice, Educational Change, Public Sector
Bilal Fouad Barakat – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2008
Much recent research has been directed at illuminating the role of education in major conflicts between ethnic groups. It is increasingly well understood that education does not necessarily have a positive, peace-supporting influence, but that the wrong kind of education can serve to reinforce divisions. However, in many conflicts there are…
Descriptors: Racial Segregation, Ethnic Groups, Conflict, Role of Education
Download full textZhao, Xin – English Language Teaching, 2009
If the purpose of language learning is communication, then improving students' reading comprehension competence becomes an overall goal in language teaching. This paper examines the online resources of reading comprehension tests with non-English major college students, and tackles the problem with the teaching method of integrating web-based…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
Levine, Mark; Guy, Paul; Straus, Peter; Levine, H. T. – American Journal of Business Education, 2009
The present study investigates whether pre-business students, after having completed a traditional in class freshmen introduction to global business course, express a difference in preference for such a course to be delivered online versus classroom or no preference at all. The study further explores whether four variables: 1) number of units of…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Preferences, Online Courses, Conventional Instruction
Nichols, Shirley J. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this quantitative correlational research study was to investigate, describe, and measure factors influencing retention of nontraditional first and second year students at a university located in the Midwestern United States. Retention of adult students has become a major issue for many institutions of higher education and many…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Intention, Statistical Analysis, School Holding Power
