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Kim, Sunny; Koegel, Robert L.; Koegel, Lynn K. – Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 2017
Although the literature suggests that it is feasible to train paraprofessionals to effectively implement social interventions for students with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), there is a paucity of research that addresses the social validity of these programs. The present study replicated and extended previous research on paraprofessional…
Descriptors: Socialization, Fidelity, Paraprofessional School Personnel, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Gervais, Matthew M. – Field Methods, 2017
Experimental economic games reveal significant population variation in human social behavior. However, most protocols involve anonymous recipients, limiting their validity to fleeting interactions. Understanding human relationship dynamics will require methods with the virtues of economic games that also tap recipient identity-conditioned…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Games, Social Networks, Communities of Practice
Fisher, Dara R.; Bagiati, Aikaterini; Sarma, Sanjay – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2017
As nations have sought to keep pace with rapid technological innovation, governments have renewed their focus on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education, with emphasis on developing both technical and non-technical skills in STEM students. This article examines which engineering-relevant skills may be developed by…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Engineering Education, Skill Development, Professional Education
Wheadon, Jacob; Wright, Geoff A.; West, Richard E.; Skaggs, Paul – Journal of Technology Education, 2017
This study discusses the need, development, and validation of the Innovation Test Instrument (ITI). This article outlines how the researchers identified the content domain of the assessment and created test items. Then, it describes initial validation testing of the instrument. The findings suggest that the ITI is a good first step in creating an…
Descriptors: Innovation, Program Validation, Evaluation Needs, Test Construction
Román-Calderón, Juan Pablo; Ospina-Londoño, Mónica Patricia; Garcés-Ceballos, José David – Learning Environments Research, 2017
The article explores the validity and reliability of an instrument for measuring for the School Environment (SE) among 3610 teachers in Medellín, Colombia during 2011. A multilevel exploratory factorial analysis established through 20 items that the instrument identifies four dimensions of SE on an individual level: communication between school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Environment, Teacher Surveys, Program Validation
Farahian, Majid – Issues in Educational Research, 2017
In an attempt to develop a metacognitive writing questionnaire, Farahian (2015) conducted a study which was based on the results obtained from a semi-structured interview (Maftoon, Birjandi & Farahian, 2014). After running various exploratory factor analyses (EFA) to validate the questionnaire two general scales of knowledge and regulation of…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Metacognition, Test Construction, Program Validation
Kong, Anthony Pak-Hin; Chan, John; Lau, Johnny King-L.; Bickerton, Wai-Ling; Weekes, Brendan; Humphreys, Glyn – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2018
The "Birmingham Cognitive Screen" (BCoS) is a neuropsychological battery designed to assess impairment to a variety of cognitive domains including language in patients with brain injuries. Twenty-two stroke participants and 16 gender-, age-, and education-matched controls were recruited in Hong Kong. The stroke participants were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sino Tibetan Languages, Neuropsychology, Intellectual Disability
Singh, Madhu – UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2018
Since 2011, millions of Syrians have fled brutal conflict in their homeland to seek refuge in other countries. Millions more remain internally displaced. More than 5.7 million children and youth are in need of educational assistance as a result of this bloody and protracted war (OCHA, 2015) and, with no political solution in sight, it seems likely…
Descriptors: Empowerment, Competence, Refugees, Foreign Countries
Gropper, George L. – Educational Technology, 2017
What would it take for instructional design to qualify as a bona fide applied discipline? First and foremost, a fundamental requirement is a testable and tested theoretical base. Untested rationales until verified remain in limbo. Secondly, the discipline's applied prescriptions must be demonstrably traceable to the theoretical base once it is…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Intellectual Disciplines, Educational Technology, Technology Integration
Ding, Yan; Gao, Yaping; Lu, Fang – American Journal of Distance Education, 2017
This paper aims to examine whether and how the US-based Quality Matters (QM) Higher Education Rubric-Design Standards for Online and Blended Courses apply to the Chinese higher education environment. Suitability and matchability of QM Standards are respectively examined through a questionnaire and course reviews at Fudan University, a leading…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Online Courses, Educational Quality, Academic Standards
Travers, Jason C. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2017
Special education professionals are charged with using evidence-based practices, but various unproven, disproven, and pseudoscientific interventions continue to proliferate. Unproven and ineffective interventions emerge and are adopted for various reasons. Ineffective interventions are inevitably harmful and require professionals to adopt a…
Descriptors: Special Education, Evidence, Evidence Based Practice, Misconceptions
Almuna Salgado, Felipe – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2016
This paper aims to revisit and clarify the term problem context and to develop a theoretical classification of the construct of levels of context use (LCU) to analyse how the context of a problem is used to formulate a problem in mathematical terms and to interpret the answer in relation to the context of a given problem. Two criteria and six…
Descriptors: Mathematics Activities, Context Effect, Problem Solving, Problem Sets
UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2019
The publication "Global inventory of regional and national qualifications frameworks 2019 -- Volume II: National and regional cases" gathers information on progress in establishing national qualifications frameworks (NQFs), as well as the challenges and success factors in implementation. It shows how countries around the globe are…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Regional Characteristics, Qualifications, National Standards
Zhang, Dake; Wang, Qiu; Stegall, Joanna; Losinki, Mickey; Katsiyannis, Antonis – Remedial and Special Education, 2018
Although there have been numerous instruments for assessing teacher efficacy in teaching general education students, there is a need to develop and validate an instrument that specifically assesses teachers' efficacy in teaching students with disabilities. This study constructed and evaluated the psychometric properties of the "Student…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Teacher Competency Testing, Self Concept Measures, Self Efficacy
Zhang, Ran; Zwaal, Wichard; Otting, Hans – Studies in Higher Education, 2018
This study assessed the validity and reliability of the Meyer, Shanahan, and Laugksch's Conceptions of Research Inventory using data collected from 227 undergraduate hotel management students in the Netherlands. The results of a series of exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses showed substantial empirical support for the five-factor…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Hospitality Occupations, Business Administration Education, Test Reliability