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Poulsen, Mads; Juul, Holger; Elbro, Carsten – Annals of Dyslexia, 2023
Different definitions and tests of dyslexia can cause unfairness and make life difficult for people with dyslexia as well as for the professionals. In 2012, the Danish government decided to support the fight against dyslexia. The government issued a public tender for the development of "a standardized, electronically administered test of…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, National Competency Tests, Foreign Countries, Test Construction
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Aarkrog, Vibe; Wahlgren, Bjarne – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2015
The article deals about the results of a study of school-based Assessment of Prior Learning of adults who have enrolled as students in a VET college in order to qualify for occupations as skilled workers. Based on examples of VET teachers' methods for assessing the students' prior learning in the programs for gastronomes, respectively child care…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Prior Learning, Adult Vocational Education, Student Evaluation
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Elklit, Ask; Nielsen, Louise Hjort; Lasgaard, Mathias; Duch, Christina – Journal of Loss and Trauma, 2013
Research on childhood posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is sparse. This is partly due to the limited availability of empirically validated measures for children who are insecure readers. The present study examined the reliability and validity of a cartoon-based measure of PTSD symptoms in children exposed to a disaster. Cartoons were generated…
Descriptors: Cartoons, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Psychometrics, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
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Clausen, Aksel Skovgaard – Qualitative Report, 2012
In this paper, I argue--with an example--that under certain conditions replacement of audio transcriptions with a combination of simultaneously taken and jointly produced notes can be done without affecting reliability, validity, and transparency. These conditions are: (1) professional or otherwise relatively "strong" interviewees…
Descriptors: Interviews, Notetaking, Qualitative Research, Hermeneutics
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Vach, Werner; Bleses, Dorthe; Jorgensen, Rune – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2010
Several research groups have previously constructed short forms of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDI) for different languages. We consider the specific aim of constructing such a short form to be used for language screening in a specific age group. We present a novel strategy for the construction, which is applicable…
Descriptors: Age, Test Reliability, Measures (Individuals), Error of Measurement
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Sedgwick, Carole – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2007
From June to November 2003 an exploratory survey was made of the assessment of written English in a small sample of English language degrees in Europe. All programmes had similar components, the study of English language and literature, cultural or area studies, and English language development. Some involved the study of another language.…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), English