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Amanda M. Snyder – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The ever-changing advances in technology require digital literacy skills for success in the workplace. To determine the critical digital literacy skills needed in the workplace today, the development of a reliable, valid instrument occurred using the nine steps of scale development by DeVellis and Thorpe (2021). Based on the SkillRise (2020a)…
Descriptors: Digital Literacy, Measures (Individuals), Job Skills, Test Reliability
Paul Alexander Siegel – ProQuest LLC, 2024
While multimodality and multiliteracies has been a concept for 25 years (Kalantzis & Cope, 2023; The New London Group, 1996), research on and application of the concept within text complexity measures has been limited. Attempts to assess multiliteracies and multimodality (Jacobs, 2013; Schmerbeck & Lucht, 2017; Wyatt-Smith & Kimber,…
Descriptors: Multiple Literacies, Learning Modalities, Test Validity, Test Reliability
McCluskey, Sydne – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Rater comparison analysis is commonly necessary in the social sciences. Conventional approaches to the problem generally focus on calculation of agreement statistics, which provide useful but incomplete information about rater agreement. Importantly, one-number agreement statistics give no indication regarding the nature of disagreements, nor do…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Structural Equation Models, Interrater Reliability, Beliefs
Feldberg, Zachary R. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Cognitive diagnostic models (CDMs) provide pedagogically relevant information in the form of a student profile of multiple binary categorizations of students into mastery or nonmastery statuses on latent traits called attributes. Federal educational accountability requires accountability measures to designate students into one of at least three…
Descriptors: Accountability, Standards, Cutting Scores, Models
Jordan, Altricia – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Data science, as a discipline can be used in any area. However, in order to utilize data science techniques, data scientist must be taught domain knowledge, referred to as a partner discipline, in the area with which the techniques are to be utilized. Using a quantitative analysis of publicly available information and survey methodology, this…
Descriptors: Data Science, Training, Scientists, Reliability
Fajetta M. Banks – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study, grounded in a phenomenological exploration, investigates whether current teacher evaluation methods account for subjectivism in teaching, learning, and evaluation within the context of Georgia's Teacher Keys Effectiveness System TKES. Through focus groups with instructional evaluators IEs, the study reveals the significant impact of…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Bias, Phenomenology
Terra Blevins – ProQuest LLC, 2024
While large language models (LLMs) continue to grow in scale and gain new zero-shot capabilities, their performance for languages beyond English increasingly lags behind. This gap is due to the "curse of multilinguality," where multilingual language models perform worse on individual languages than a monolingual model trained on that…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Computational Linguistics, Second Languages, Reliability
Eric Jones – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The assessment of human performance is not a new phenomenon. We have evidence that people have been required to prove their worth dating back at least to the Epic of Gilgamesh. What has changed, at least on a large scale, is the importance given to quantitative evidence in the evaluation process. For example, many employers have begun subjecting…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Evaluation Methods, Semiotics, Theories
Sara Mashat – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Ferrari (2010) stated 20-25% of people self-identified as chronic procrastinators, which is a common self-regulatory failure involving stalling the initiation or completion of important duties or responsibilities until the last minute, after a predetermined deadline, or indefinitely (Dryden, 2000). This study is the first attempt to translate and…
Descriptors: Arabic, Time Management, Self Management, Psychometrics
Abdulrahman Alshammari – ProQuest LLC, 2024
A critical component of modern software development practices, particularly continuous integration (CI), is the halt of development activities in response to test failures which requires further investigation and debugging. As software changes, regression testing becomes vital to verify that new code does not affect existing functionality.…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Programming, Coding, Test Reliability
Jiayi Deng – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Test score comparability in international large-scale assessments (LSA) is of utmost importance in measuring the effectiveness of education systems and understanding the impact of education on economic growth. To effectively compare test scores on an international scale, score linking is widely used to convert raw scores from different linguistic…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Scoring Rubrics, Scoring, Error of Measurement
Lewis, Samala B. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation measures the multicultural teaching competency (MTC) and the frequency at which science educators use culturally relevant educational practices (CREPs). This study's mixed-method, convergent design is grounded in critical theory, and the MTC and culturally relevant education (CRE) framework. Findings suggest that the CREPs-F…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Culturally Relevant Education, Teacher Competencies, Science Teachers
Jessica A. Hosey – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Nonacademic staff in higher education, also known as support staff, is a necessary and under-researched workforce essential for the success of higher education institutions. The higher education needs emphasized by the COVID-19 pandemic, state budget cuts, and increasing levels of turnover from the nonacademic population highlight the need for a…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, School Personnel, Higher Education, Occupational Mobility
Steven D. Caminiti – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Research has focused on the various reasons why high school principals leave their positions, yet minimal research has been done on the reasons why they stay. The problem of inconsistency of high school principals' tenure within the first 4 years of service was addressed in this study. Deci and Ryan's self-determination theory was used in this…
Descriptors: High Schools, Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Tenure
Katie L. McDermott – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Nursing education programs are faced with urgent demands to transition to competency-based education (CBE) to address the limitations of the nursing workforce. The AACN (2021) has developed the Essentials, or the core competencies for graduating entry- and advanced-level nurses to inform CBE. A concept analysis of Foundational Competence was…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Employment Qualifications, Nurses, Nursing Education
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