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Goodwin, Amanda P.; Petscher, Yaacov; Tock, Jamie; McFadden, Sara; Reynolds, Dan; Lantos, Tess; Jones, Sara – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2022
Assessment of language skills for upper elementary and middle schoolers is important due to the strong link between language and reading comprehension. Yet, currently few practical, reliable, valid, and instructionally informative assessments of language exist. This study provides validation evidence for Monster, P.I., which is a gamified,…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Language Tests, Vocabulary
Petscher, Yaacov; Pfeiffer, Steven I. – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2020
The authors evaluated measurement-level, factor-level, item-level, and scale-level revisions to the "Gifted Rating Scales-School Form" (GRS-S). Measurement-level considerations tested the extent to which treating the Likert-type scale rating as categorical or continuous produced different fit across unidimensional, correlated trait, and…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Academically Gifted, Rating Scales, Factor Structure
Goodwin, Amanda; Petscher, Yaacov; Tock, Jamie – Journal of Research in Reading, 2021
Background: Middle school students use the information conveyed by morphemes (i.e., units of meaning such as prefixes, root words and suffixes) in different ways to support their literacy endeavours, suggesting the likelihood that morphological knowledge is multidimensional. This has important implications for assessment. Methods: The current…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Morphology (Languages), Metalinguistics, Student Evaluation
Goodwin, Amanda P.; Petscher, Yaacov; Tock, Jamie – Grantee Submission, 2021
Background: Middle school students use the information conveyed by morphemes (i.e., units of meaning such as prefixes, root words and suffixes) in different ways to support their literacy endeavours, suggesting the likelihood that morphological knowledge is multidimensional. This has important implications for assessment. Methods: The current…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Morphemes, Middle School Students, Knowledge Level
Petscher, Yaacov; Mitchell, Alison M.; Foorman, Barbara R. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2015
A growing body of literature suggests that response latency, the amount of time it takes an individual to respond to an item, may be an important factor to consider when using assessment data to estimate the ability of an individual. Considering that tests of passage and list fluency are being adapted to a computer administration format, it is…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Vocabulary, Item Response Theory, Reliability
Rosado, Javier I.; Pfeiffer, Steven; Petscher, Yaacov – Gifted Education International, 2015
The challenge of correctly identifying gifted students is a critical issue. Gifted education in Puerto Rico is marked by insufficient support and a lack of appropriate identification methods. This study examined the reliability and validity of a Spanish translation of the "Gifted Rating Scales-School Form" (GRS) with a sample of 618…
Descriptors: Identification, Gifted, Puerto Ricans, Grades (Scholastic)
Pentimonti, Jill M.; Zucker, Tricia A.; Justice, Laura M.; Petscher, Yaacov; Piasta, Shayne B.; Kaderavek, Joan N. – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2012
Participation in shared-reading experiences is associated with children's language and literacy outcomes, yet few standardized assessments of shared-reading quality exist. The purpose of this study was to describe the psychometric characteristics of the Systematic Assessment of Book Reading (SABR), an observational tool designed to characterize…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Construct Validity, Interrater Reliability, Factor Structure
Petscher, Yaacov; Foorman, Barbara R.; Truckenmiller, Adrea J. – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2017
The objective of the present study was to evaluate the extent to which students who took a computer adaptive test of reading comprehension accounting for testlet effects were administered fewer passages and had a more precise estimate of their reading comprehension ability compared to students in the control condition. A randomized controlled…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Comparative Analysis, Randomized Controlled Trials, Control Groups
Petscher, Yaacov; Cummings, Kelli Dawn; Biancarosa, Gina; Fien, Hank – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2013
The purpose of this article is to provide a commentary on the current state of several measurement issues pertaining to curriculum-based measures of reading (R-CBM). We begin by providing an overview of the utility of R-CBM, followed by a presentation of five specific measurements considerations: (a) the reliability of R-CBM oral reading fluency…
Descriptors: Measurement, Reading Fluency, Curriculum Based Assessment, Error of Measurement
Mitchell, Alison M.; Truckenmiller, Adrea; Petscher, Yaacov – Communique, 2015
As part of the Race to the Top initiative, the United States Department of Education made nearly 1 billion dollars available in State Educational Technology grants with the goal of ramping up school technology. One result of this effort is that states, districts, and schools across the country are using computerized assessments to measure their…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Educational Technology, Testing, Efficiency
Truckenmiller, Adrea J.; Petscher, Yaacov; Gaughan, Linda; Dwyer, Ted – Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2016
District and state education leaders frequently use screening assessments to identify students who are at risk of performing poorly on end-of-year achievement tests. This study examines the use of a universal screening assessment of reading skills for early identification of students at risk of low achievement on nationally normed tests of reading…
Descriptors: Prediction, Predictive Validity, Predictor Variables, Mathematics Achievement
Koon, Sharon; Petscher, Yaacov; Hughes, John – Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2015
The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which the measures that make up each of the three separate accountability indices of school performance in South Carolina could be used to create an overall, reliable index of school performance. Data from public elementary, middle, and high schools in 2012/13 were used in confirmatory factor…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Accountability, Educational Indicators, Performance Factors
Improving Comprehension Assessment for Middle and High School Students: Challenges and Opportunities
Sabatini, John; Petscher, Yaacov; O'Reilly, Tenaha; Truckenmiller, Adrea – Grantee Submission, 2015
For decades, standardized reading comprehension tests have consisted of a series of passages and associated multiple-choice questions. Although widely used in and out of the classroom, there continues to be considerable disagreement regarding how or whether such tests have net value in the service of advancing educational progress in reading. This…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, High School Students, Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests
Foorman, Barbara R.; Petscher, Yaacov; Schatschneider, Chris – Florida Center for Reading Research, 2015
The FAIR-FS consists of computer-adaptive reading comprehension and oral language screening tasks that provide measures to track growth over time, as well as a Probability of Literacy Success (PLS) linked to grade-level performance (i.e., the 40th percentile) on the reading comprehension subtest of the Stanford Achievement Test (SAT-10) in the…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Screening Tests, Reading Comprehension, Oral Language
Foorman, Barbara R.; Petscher, Yaacov; Schatschneider, Chris – Florida Center for Reading Research, 2015
The grades K-2 Florida Center for Reading Research (FCRR) Reading Assessment (FRA) consists of computer-adaptive alphabetic and oral language screening tasks that provide a Probability of Literacy Success (PLS) linked to grade-level performance (i.e., the 40th percentile) on the word reading (in kindergarten) or reading comprehension (in grades…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Tests, Kindergarten, Grade 1
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