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Handbook of Polytomous Item Response Theory Models
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Nering, Michael L., Ed.; Ostini, Remo, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2010
This comprehensive "Handbook" focuses on the most used polytomous item response theory (IRT) models. These models help us understand the interaction between examinees and test questions where the questions have various response categories. The book reviews all of the major models and includes discussions about how and where the models…
Descriptors: Guides, Item Response Theory, Test Items, Correlation
Assessing Movement Skills in Handicapped Children.
Knowles, Claudia Jane; Broadhead, Geoffrey B. – Education Unlimited, 1981
The article focuses on the assessment of fundamental movement skills in handicapped children and offers an assessing-teaching model which can help ameliorate movement difficulties. (SB)
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Models
Learning the Library: Taxonomy of Skills and Errors.
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Jakobovits, Leon A.; Nahl-Jakobovits, Diane – College and Research Libraries, 1987
A theoretical scheme classifies user behavior into three domains of library activity--affective, cognitive, and psychomotor--and three levels of learning--orientation, interaction, and internalization. Examples of library skills and errors in each of the nine major classes are given, and applications to library instruction are suggested.…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Classification, Cognitive Processes, Learning Activities
A Comparison of Verbal Instruction and Nonverbal Teacher Student Modeling in Instrumental Ensembles.
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Dickey, Marc R. – Journal of Research in Music Education, 1991
Explores the comparative effectiveness of verbal instruction and modeling instruction in instrumental music classrooms. Hypothesizes that modeling is more effective than verbal instruction. Concludes that modeling strategies and devices such as melodic echoes and rhythmic movement to music can lead to increased ear-to-hand skills and kinesthetic…
Descriptors: Bands (Music), Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, Kinesthetic Methods
The Right Stuff: Developmentally Appropriate Physical Education for Early Childhood Preschool through Grade Two for All Children.
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Wessel, Janet A.; Holland, Bernard V. – 1992
This paper focuses on physical education for students in preschool (3 to 5 years) and primary grades K-2 (5 to 7 years). It describes developmentally appropriate practices as a set of indicators for high quality play and motor skills programs for all children, including children with special needs. The paper also describes and recommends an…
Descriptors: Adapted Physical Education, Curriculum Development, Delivery Systems, Disabilities
Psychoeducational Assessment of the Multiply Handicapped Blind Child: Issues and Methods.
Langley, M. Beth – Education of the Visually Handicapped, 1978
Focus is on an assessment model that integrates process-oriented and eclectic approaches to cognitive, linguistic, motoric, and social assessment of this population. (Author/DLS)
Descriptors: Blindness, Child Development, Cognitive Processes, Conceptual Schemes
GATE: A Model Project for Implementing a Program for Gifted and Talented Education in Rural Schools.
Humphrey, Margaret; Loftus, Linda – 1979
The handbook provides a model for beginning and operating programs for talented/gifted students in rural schools, K-12, based on a program developed in Shasta County, California, in 1976-77 and disseminated nationwide in 1978-79. The model produces individualized programs planned by a committee composed of the student, classroom teacher(s),…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Committees, Creativity, Elementary Secondary Education