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O'Connor, Rollanda E.; Beach, Kristen D.; Sanchez, Victoria; Bocian, Kathleen M.; Flynn, Lindsay – Grantee Submission, 2015
We tested the effects of teaching reading skills through U.S. History content for 38 eighth-grade poor readers whose reading ability ranged from 2nd to 4th grade levels. Half of the students received special education services and half of the students were English Language Learners. Students were taught to decode multisyllabic words, learn…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Grade 8, Middle School Students, Reading Difficulties
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Rueger, Sandra Yu; Haines, Beth A.; Malecki, Christine Kerres – Assessment, 2010
The psychometric properties of two paper-and-pencil versions of the Children's Attributional Style Interview (i.e., CASI-I and CASI-II) were evaluated in a sample of 166 third and fourth graders and a sample of 245 sixth and seventh graders. The results demonstrated strong internal consistency reliability, convergent validity, and a factor…
Descriptors: Validity, Reliability, Factor Structure, Early Adolescents
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Gao, Zan; Liu, Yuanlong; Lodewyk, Ken; Zhang, Tao; Kosma, Maria – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2011
The purpose of this study was to examine the reliability and validity of outcome likelihood, outcome value, and outcome expectancy using data collected from students in secondary school physical education classes. Dependent measures were examined for construct, concurrent, and predictive validity, as well as internal and temporal reliability. The…
Descriptors: Evidence, Physical Education, Student Attitudes, Predictive Validity
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Zvoch, Keith; Stevens, Joseph J. – Evaluation Review, 2008
Several school performance indices were evaluated using achievement data from multiple longitudinally matched middle school student cohorts in a large district in the southwestern United States. Measures designed to index the within-cohort achievement status and growth of students as well as the status and growth-based changes that occur over…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Longitudinal Studies, Middle School Students, Educational Indicators
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McDaniel, Sara C.; Houchins, David E.; Terry, Nicole P. – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2013
Reading deficits among students with emotional and behavioral disorders (E/BD) are well documented. One approach to addressing these deficits has been providing students with intensive and explicit reading instruction. In this study, 31 students with E/BD and reading deficits in self-contained settings were provided with 8 weeks of…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Emotional Disturbances, Reading Difficulties, Statistical Significance
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Taylor, Catherine S.; Lee, Yoonsun – Applied Measurement in Education, 2010
Item response theory (IRT) methods are generally used to create score scales for large-scale tests. Research has shown that IRT scales are stable across groups and over time. Most studies have focused on items that are dichotomously scored. Now Rasch and other IRT models are used to create scales for tests that include polytomously scored items.…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Item Response Theory, Robustness (Statistics), Item Analysis
Buelin-Biesecker, Jennifer Katherine – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study compared the creative outcomes in student work resulting from two pedagogical approaches to creative problem solving activities. A secondary goal was to validate the Consensual Assessment Technique (CAT) as a means of assessing creativity. Linear models for problem solving and design processes serve as the current paradigm in classroom…
Descriptors: Technology Education, Creativity, Problem Solving, Teaching Methods
Duncan-Wiles, Daphne S. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
With the recent addition of engineering to most K-12 testable state standards, efficient and comprehensive instruments are needed to assess changes in student knowledge and perceptions of engineering. In this study, I developed the Students' Awareness and Perceptions of Learning Engineering (STAPLE) instrument to quantitatively measure fourth…
Descriptors: Engineering, Engineering Education, Student Attitudes, Measures (Individuals)
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Sung, Yao-Ting; Chang, Kuo-En; Chang, Tzyy-Hua; Yu, Wen-Cheng – Journal of Adolescence, 2010
Self- and peer assessments are becoming more popular in classrooms, but there are few data on the reliability and validity of such assessments performed by school children. Because these factors are greatly affected by the number of raters, we conducted two studies to determine the rating behaviours of teenagers in self- and peer assessments, and…
Descriptors: Generalizability Theory, Peer Evaluation, Validity, Reliability
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Ness, Bryan Michael; Sohlberg, McKay Moore; Albin, Richard W. – Remedial and Special Education, 2011
Students who struggle academically often struggle with assignment completion. Poor assignment completion is attributable to both student cognitive and motivational barriers. This study evaluates the effectiveness of an intervention designed to improve assignment completion for middle school students who struggle academically. Seventh graders with…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Homework, Intervention, Grade 7
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Curcic, Svjetlana; Johnstone, Robin S. – Computers in the Schools, 2016
This study examined the effects of an intervention in writing with digital interactive books. To improve the writing skills of seventh- and eighth-grade students with a learning disability in reading, we conducted a quasi-experimental study in which the students read interactive digital books (i-books), took notes, wrote summaries, and acted as…
Descriptors: Intervention, Writing Skills, Learning Disabilities, Cartoons
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Randler, Christoph; Hummel, Eberhard; Glaser-Zikuda, Michaela; Vollmer, Christian; Bogner, Franz X.; Mayring, Philipp – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2011
Research has shown that emotions play a significant role in the learning process and academic achievement. However, the fact that measurement of emotions during or after instruction usually requires written responses on lengthy research instruments has been given as a reason why researchers have tended to avoid research on this topic in…
Descriptors: Grades (Scholastic), Elementary Secondary Education, Test Validity, Motivation
Pardos, Zachary A.; Heffernan, Neil T. – International Working Group on Educational Data Mining, 2009
Researchers who make tutoring systems would like to know which sequences of educational content lead to the most effective learning by their students. The majority of data collected in many ITS systems consist of answers to a group of questions of a given skill often presented in a random sequence. Following work that identifies which items…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Bayesian Statistics, Statistical Analysis, Problem Sets
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Metin, Mustafa – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2010
The aim of this study is to develop a general attitude scale about environmental issues (GASE) for students in different grade levels. The research was carried out with the total 1225 students; 409 (33.4%) were primary school students in grades 5, 6, 7 and 8; 408 (33.3%) of the students were in grades 9, 10, 11 and 12 at high schools and the…
Descriptors: Expertise, Student Attitudes, Measures (Individuals), Factor Analysis
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Caldarella, Paul; Young, Ellie L.; Richardson, Michael J.; Young, Benjamin J.; Young, K. Richard – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2008
The Systematic Screening for Behavior Disorders (SSBD), a multistage screening system designed to identify elementary school--age children at risk for emotional and behavioral disorders, was evaluated for use with middle and junior high school students. During SSBD Stage 1, teachers identified 123 students in grades 6 through 9 with…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, High Risk Students, Behavior Disorders, Interrater Reliability
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