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Download full textTang, Xiaodan; Schultz, Matthew – Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 2020
This study aims to examine the potential impacts on repeat examinees' performance by reusing simulation-based items in a high-stakes standardized assessment. We examined change patterns of item scores, ability estimate, score pattern change, response time and compared the performance of repeat examinees who have received repeat items and those who…
Descriptors: Test Items, Repetition, Simulation, Standardized Tests
Direct linkSarroub, Loukia K.; England, William R. – Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research, 2020
Operationalizing space is challenging because the factors impacting education are often located at different scales. Combining Geographic Information Systems and ethnographic analyses allows researchers to conduct studies at both micro- and macro-scales, thus illuminating the connections between local and global phenomena. In our first case, we…
Descriptors: Geographic Information Systems, Ethnography, Refugees, Migration
Green Saraisky, Nancy; Pizmony-Levy, Oren – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2020
Organizational networks shape education policy by influencing power holders and elites, but do they have similar effects on grassroots activists? We use data from the National Survey on Opting Out (2016 and 2018; n = 2,909) to examine the role of organizational networks in mobilizing activists in the opt-out movement (a movement in which parents…
Descriptors: Activism, Organizations (Groups), Social Networks, Educational Policy
Gill, Scherto – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2020
During the COVID-19 lockdown, schools are closed, exams have been cancelled, and teaching and learning are taking an unprecedented form. In this process, two realities are brought to light. On the one hand, the pandemic highlights the widening gaps in society and the part that the educational system plays in privileging students from advantageous…
Descriptors: Testing, Testing Problems, COVID-19, Pandemics
Farmer, Cristan A.; Kaat, Aaron J.; Thurm, Audrey; Anselm, Irina; Akshoomoff, Natacha; Bennett, Amanda; Berry, Leandra; Bruchey, Aleksandra; Barshop, Bruce A.; Berry-Kravis, Elizabeth; Bianconi, Simona; Cecil, Kim M.; Davis, Robert J.; Ficicioglu, Can; Porter, Forbes D.; Wainer, Allison; Goin-Kochel, Robin P.; Leonczyk, Caroline; Guthrie, Whitney; Koeberl, Dwight; Love-Nichols, Jamie; Mamak, Eva; Mercimek-Andrews, Saadet; Thomas, Rebecca P.; Spiridigliozzi, Gail A.; Sullivan, Nancy; Sutton, Vernon R.; Udhnani, Manisha D.; Waisbren, Susan E.; Miller, Judith S. – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2020
Although norm-referenced scores are essential to the identification of disability, they possess several features which affect their sensitivity to change. Norm-referenced scores often decrease over time among people with neurodevelopmental disorders who exhibit slower-than-average increases in ability. Further, the reliability of norm-referenced…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Norm Referenced Tests, Scores, Ability
Vierula, Jonna; Haavisto, Elina; Hupli, Maija; Talman, Kirsi – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2020
Higher education student selection has significant societal, institutional and individual impacts. Thousands of applicants apply only for nursing, one of the major higher education disciplines. As the nursing profession is characterised by cognitive requirements, higher education institutions assess the learning skills of nursing applicants.…
Descriptors: Nursing Students, Learning Strategies, Admission Criteria, Student Evaluation
Sutter, Claudia C.; Campbell, Laurie O.; Lambie, Glenn W. – Computers in the Schools, 2020
The present study investigated the predictability of a computer-adaptive, curriculum-based reading assessment for measuring second-grade students' overall and comprehension reading achievement on a standardized reading achievement test. Specifically, second-grade student scores (N = 428) of the Istation's Indicators of Progress for Early Reading…
Descriptors: Prediction, Standardized Tests, Reading Tests, Grade 2
Nesrin Sahin; Juli K. Dixon; Robert C. Schoen – School Science and Mathematics, 2020
This observational study used data from 270 second-grade students to investigate the association between students' strategy use for multidigit addition and subtraction and their mathematics achievement. Based on strategies they used during a mathematics interview, students were classified into the following strategy groups: (a) standard algorithm,…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Standardized Tests, Performance Factors, Grade 2
Sandsør, Astrid Marie Jorde; Zachrisson, Henrik Daae; Karoly, Lynn A.; Dearing, Eric – Educational Researcher, 2023
We study a decade of achievement gaps for fifth-, eighth-, and 10th-grade students in Norway using administrative population data. Norway is a wealthy and egalitarian country with a homogeneous educational system, yet achievement gaps between students at the 90th and 10th percentiles of parental income and between students whose parents have at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Gap, Grade 5, Grade 8
Tolga Gök – Journal of Science Learning, 2023
The study investigated the effects of a combination of Peer Discussion and Isomorphic Problems (PD-IPs) on high school students' graph understanding and conceptual learning. The study was conducted on kinematics and Newton's Laws of Motion with 67 high school students from two groups. The experimental group (EG) consisted of 34 students, while the…
Descriptors: High School Students, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Discussion Groups, Academic Achievement
Qaisar Khan; Sadia Ashraf – Bulletin of Education and Research, 2023
Assessment methods have more effects on the strategy of study; if an exam requires the recall of factual information, then students adopt the surface-level approach or rote learning (Newble & Jaeger, 1983). Measuring the learning outcomes of students is paramount for learning and teaching improvement. However, in the Pakistani education…
Descriptors: Testing Programs, Standardized Tests, High Stakes Tests, Rote Learning
Michael Norman Voth – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this study is to examine how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the learning of students in public education through the analysis of standardized assessment performance before and during COVID-19. The study also compares virtual learning and face-to-face students' change in performance on the standardized assessments. To answer the…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Scores, Academic Achievement, Middle School Students
Bray, Karen – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this quantitative study was to test the relationship between instructional related expenditures and student performance on a state mandated exam while controlling for various district-level and student-level variables for school districts in the state of Texas. The study had two research questions regarding student performance in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Standardized Tests, Achievement Tests, Statistical Analysis
Amanda Slaysman – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The problem addressed in this study was that in response to low standardized test scores, instructional strategies were required to be implemented in English Language Arts (ELA), but teachers in Grades 1 through 5 in the study site experienced challenges using these strategies to meet student learning needs. The explored teachers' experiences and…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Teachers, Grade 1
Beachy, Rachel; Guo, Daibao; Wright, Katherine Landau; McTigue, Erin M. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2023
Despite many calls, there is little research addressing teachers' knowledge of reading assessments and how they utilize assessments for reading instruction. Therefore, the current research developed and validated a reliable measure of teachers' perceptions and knowledge of reading assessments, called the "Perceptions and Knowledge of…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Elementary School Teachers, Preschool Teachers, High School Teachers
