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Direct linkMaïano, Christophe; Morin, Alexandre J. S.; Gagnon, Cynthia; Olivier, Elizabeth; Tracey, Danielle; Craven, Rhonda G.; Bouchard, Stéphane – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2023
The objective of the study was to validate adapted versions of the Glasgow Anxiety Scale for people with Intellectual Disabilities (GAS-ID) simultaneously developed in English and French. A sample of 361 youth with mild to moderate intellectual disability (ID) (M = 15.78 years) from Australia (English-speaking) and Canada (French-speaking)…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Anxiety, French, English
Brown, Ted – Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools & Early Intervention, 2019
The Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency -- Second Edition (BOT-2) is a commonly used assessment of children's skills. It is important that assessments have validity evidence reported about them. The objective of the study was to investigate the structural validity of the BOT-2's eight subscales and four composite scales. A sample of 117…
Descriptors: Performance Tests, Psychomotor Skills, Test Validity, Children
Download full textStyles, Irene; Wildy, Helen; Pepper, Vivienne; Faulkner, Joanne; Berman, Ye'Elah – International Research in Early Childhood Education, 2014
The assessment of literacy and numeracy skills of students as they enter school for the first time is not yet established nation-wide in Australia. However, a large proportion of primary schools have chosen to assess their starting students on the Performance Indicators in Primary Schools-Baseline Assessment (PIPS-BLA). This series of three…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Knowledge, Performance Based Assessment, Test Bias
Forster, Patricia A. – Research in Science Education, 2005
The issue of unfairness arises in high-stakes public examinations when students choose questions from alternatives that are offered and marks on the alternatives turn out to be discrepant. This paper addresses and defines unfairness and discrepancy in the context of alternative questions in Physics Tertiary Entrance Examinations (TEE) in Western…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physics, Identification, High Stakes Tests
Peer reviewedWigglesworth, Gillian – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 1994
Multifaceted Rasch analysis was used to determine whether bias was evident in the way a group of raters graded two different versions of an oral interaction test, undertaken by the same candidates. Results indicate that certain raters consistently rated the tape version of the test more harshly while others rated the live one more harshly. (10…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Foreign Countries, Graphs, Interaction Process Analysis
Peer reviewedLynch, Brian K. – Language Testing, 1997
Addresses the question of whether any test can be defended as ethical or moral. Defines ethicality in terms of issues such as harm, consent, confidentiality of data, and fairness and presents frameworks for determining equity of educational opportunity. An assessment project in Australia is examined in relation to these concerns. (24 references)…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Equal Education, Ethics
