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Guidelines for the Selection of Physical Literacy Measures in Physical Education in Australia
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Barnett, Lisa M.; Dudley, Dean A.; Telford, Richard D.; Lubans, David R.; Bryant, Anna S.; Roberts, William M.; Morgan, Philip J.; Schranz, Natasha K.; Weissenteiner, Juanita R.; Vella, Stewart A.; Salmon, Jo; Ziviani, Jenny; Okely, Anthony D.; Wainwright, Nalda; Evans, John R.; Keegan, Richard J. – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2019
Assessment of physical literacy poses a dilemma of what instrument to use. There is currently no guide regarding the suitability of common assessment approaches. The purpose of this brief communication is to provide a user's guide for selecting physical literacy assessment instruments appropriate for use in school physical education and sport…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Guidelines, Physical Education, Test Selection
Selection and Validation of Attitude Scales for Curriculum Evaluation
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Fraser, Barry J. – Science Education, 1977
Defines educational importance, multidimensionality, and economy to be essential criteria in the selection of attitude scales for curriculum evaluation. Five scales meeting the requirements are selected and tested with 1,158 Australian seventh-grade students. Scores on the attitude scales and correlations of scores with socioeconomic status,…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Attitudes, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Research
The Assessment of Children's Cognitive Processing Capabilities.
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Romberg, Thomas A.; Collis, Kevin F. – 1980
This paper reports the results of the second of a series of collaborative studies examining how children acquire the skills to represent and solve verbal addition and subtraction problems. The purpose of this study was to identify the cognitive processing capabilities of a group of Tasmanian (Australian) children. Fifteen cognitive tests were…
Descriptors: Addition, Age Differences, Arithmetic, Cognitive Processes
The Assessment of Children's M-Space.
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Romberg, Thomas A.; Collis, Kevin F. – 1980
The purpose of this study was to identify the working memory capacity (M-space) for a group of 139 children (4 to 8 years of age) enrolled at Sandy Bay Infant School in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Four M-space tests -- The Counting Span Test (Case and Kurland, 1978), Mr. Cucui Test (DeAvila and Havassy, 1974), the Digit Placement Test (Case,…
Descriptors: Addition, Age Differences, Arithmetic, Cognitive Development
Measuring Educational Achievement in TAFE. Diploma of Teaching (Technical). Directed Study Booklet.
Watson, A. – 1984
This booklet was designed to help teacher education students identify and explain certain basic principles of educational measurement and apply them to the development of a valid and reliable assessment program that measures the achievement of a set of educational objectives from a curriculum that they teach. It is intended for use in the Sydney…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Adult Education, Behavioral Objectives