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Guhn, Martin; Gadermann, Anne; Zumbo, Bruno D. – Early Education and Development, 2007
The present study investigates whether the Early Development Instrument (Offord & Janus, 1999) measures school readiness similarly across different groups of children. We employ ordinal logistic regression to investigate differential item functioning, a method of examining measurement bias. For 40,000 children, our analysis compares groups…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Kindergarten, Child Development, Program Validation
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Huynh, Huynh; Barton, Karen E. – Applied Measurement in Education, 2006
This study examined the effect of oral administration accommodations on test structure and student performance on the Reading test of the South Carolina High School Exit Examination (HSEE). The examination was given at Grade 10 and was untimed; hence, students were permitted as much time as they needed to answer all the questions. Three groups of…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Exit Examinations, Learning Disabilities, Academic Achievement
Sternberg, Robert J.; Grigorenko, Elena L.; Birney, Damian P.; Fredine, Nancy; Jarvin, Linda; Jeltova, Ida – National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented, 2007
The goal of this research project was to investigate the use of dynamic assessment to increase equity, fairness, and accuracy in the testing of abilities and achievement. Dynamic tests have been found to reveal developing expertise in underrepresented minorities around the world that is not revealed by conventional static tests. The…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Grade 4, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans
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Van den Bergh, Veerle; Mortelmans, Dimitri; Spooren, Pieter; Van Petegem, Peter; Gijbels, David; Vanthournout, Gert – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2006
Because of an increasing quality concern for higher education, additional attention is being paid to new educational principles with a more student- and competence-centred vision. Project-based education is one of the learning environments congruent with these principles. Ideally, the students in this learning environment are assessed by suitable…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Educational Principles, Student Evaluation, Teacher Attitudes
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Yang, Haiwen; Harlow, Steven; Maddux, Cleborne; Smaby, Marlowe – Counseling and Values, 2006
This study compared worldviews of Chinese international students who have been in the United States for 1 year or less, Chinese international students who have been in the United States for 4 years or more, and European American students. Worldview was assessed with the Scale to Assess Worldview (F. A. Ibrahim & H. Kahn, 1987). Results…
Descriptors: World Views, Foreign Students, Cross Cultural Studies, Chinese
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Aberg-Bengtsson, Lisbeth; Erickson, Gudrun – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2006
The research project presented in this article was set in the Swedish school context and carried out on a set of compulsory national tests for English, Swedish, and mathematics used at the end of compulsory school. The aims were: (a) to gain a deeper knowledge of the internal structure of the tests and (b) to separate individual performance from…
Descriptors: Individual Testing, Factor Analysis, Structural Equation Models, Foreign Countries
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Van Moere, Alistair – Language Testing, 2006
This article investigates a group oral test as administered at a university in Japan to find if it is appropriate to use scores for higher stakes decision making. It is one component of an in-house English proficiency test used for placing students, evaluating their progress, and making informed decisions for the development of the English…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Generalizability Theory, Achievement Tests, English (Second Language)
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Towles-Reeves, Elizabeth; Garrett, Brent; Burdette, Paula J.; Burdge, Mike – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2006
In conjunction with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 1997 (IDEA; PL 105-17), the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002 (NCLB; PL 107-110) calls for enhancements to existing assessment and accountability systems within specific timelines. The NCLB Act also stresses the importance of using reliable and valid data for decision making.…
Descriptors: Individualized Education Programs, Alternative Assessment, Accountability, Academic Accommodations (Disabilities)
Francis, David J.; Rivera, Mabel; Lesaux, Nonie; Kieffer, Michael; Rivera, Hector – Center on Instruction, 2006
The fundamental principles underlying the "No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001" focus on high standards of learning and instruction with the goal of increasing academic achievement--reading and math in particular--within all identified subgroups in the K-12 population. One of these subgroups is the growing population of English…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Intervention, Federal Legislation, Academic Achievement
Brennan, Robert L., Ed. – Praeger, 2006
"Educational Measurement" has been the bible in its field since the first edition was published by ACE in 1951. The importance of this fourth edition of "Educational Measurement" is to extensively update and extend the topics treated in the previous three editions. As such, the fourth edition documents progress in the field and…
Descriptors: Educational Testing, Educational Assessment, Test Validity, Test Reliability
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