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Henning, Marcus; Alyami, Mohsen; Melyani, Zeyad; Alyami, Hussain; Al Mansour, Ali – Journal of Academic Ethics, 2020
Establishing a reliable and valid measure of academic integrity that can be used in higher education institutions across the world is a challenging and ambitious task. However, solving this issue will likely have major ramifications for understanding dishonest action. It also enables the development of a standardised measure that can be used to…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Test Construction, Construct Validity, Test Reliability
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Ross, Gareth E.; Hocken, Kerensa; Auty, Jonathan M. – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2020
Adaptive functioning (AF) has been overlooked in the assessment of intellectual disability within the UK Prison Service, primarily because there are no reliable and valid measures of AF suitable for use with prison populations. This position is incompatible with the obligation of Her Majesty's Prison and Probation Service to provide specialist…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adjustment (to Environment), Intellectual Disability, Institutionalized Persons
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Simonsen, Brandi; Freeman, Jennifer; Kooken, Janice; Dooley, Kathryn; Gambino, Anthony J.; Wilkinson, Sarah; VanLone, Janet; Walters, Sharon; Byun, Sang Gyu; Xu, Xin; Lupo, Kelly; Kern, Laura – School Psychology, 2020
Effective classroom management is critical for student and teacher success. Because teachers receive limited preservice preparation and in-service support in classroom management, educational leaders (e.g., school psychologists, behavior coaches, mentor teachers, and administrators) need efficient and effective tools to identify teachers'…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Classroom Techniques, Teacher Evaluation, Rating Scales
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Jones, Brett D.; Khajavy, Gholam Hassan; Li, Ming; Mohamed, Hanaa Ezzat; Reilly, Peter – SAGE Open, 2023
This study examined whether the five scales of the MUSIC Model of Academic Motivation Inventory produced valid scores when used in university English language courses across four different countries. We surveyed 1,147 students in English language courses in Iran, Mexico, China, and Egypt and analyzed their responses by performing measurement…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Student Attitudes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Myers, Matthew C.; Wilson, Joshua – International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2023
This study evaluated the construct validity of six scoring traits of an automated writing evaluation (AWE) system called "MI Write." Persuasive essays (N = 100) written by students in grades 7 and 8 were randomized at the sentence-level using a script written with Python's NLTK module. Each persuasive essay was randomized 30 times (n =…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Automation, Writing Evaluation, Algorithms
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Aryadoust, Vahid – Language Testing, 2023
Construct validity and building validity arguments are some of the main challenges facing the language assessment community. The notion of construct validity and validity arguments arose from research in psychological assessment and developed into the gold standard of validation/validity research in language assessment. At a theoretical level,…
Descriptors: Testing Problems, Test Validity, Second Language Learning, Construct Validity
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Er, Zübeyde; Dinç Artut, Perihan; Bal, Ayten Pinar – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2023
The aim of this research is to develop a reliable and valid scale to determine the mathematical thinking skills of gifted students. In addition, with the developed scale, thinking skills of gifted students was examined in terms of various variables. In this context, the research was carried out on two different study groups. The first stage of…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Rating Scales, Test Construction, Construct Validity
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Chunlei Gao; Mingqing Jian; Ailin Yuan – SAGE Open, 2024
The Digital Stress Scale (DSS) is used to measure digital stress, which is the perceived stress and anxiety associated with social media use. In this study, the Chinese version of the DSS was validated using a sample of 721 Chinese college students, 321 males and 400 females (KMO = 0.923; Bartlett = 5,058.492, p < 0.001). Confirmatory factor…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Factor Analysis, Psychometrics, Anxiety
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Mohammadkhah, Ebrahim; Kiany, Gholam Reza; Tajeddin, Zia; ShayesteFar, Parvaneh – International Journal of Language Testing, 2022
The contemporary era of learning-oriented assessment (LOA) demands teacher professional efforts to appropriately and accurately assess learners' attainment and use the assessment results for the enhancement of learning. In second/foreign language (L2) discipline, this has recently brought language assessment literacy (LAL) to the forefront,…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Language Tests, Knowledge Base for Teaching
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Pásztor, Attila; Magyar, Andrea; Pásztor-Kovács, Anita; Rausch, Attila – Journal of Intelligence, 2022
The aims of the study were (1) to develop a domain-general computer-based assessment tool for inductive reasoning and to empirically test the theoretical models of Klauer and Christou and Papageorgiou; and (2) to develop an online game to foster inductive reasoning through mathematical content and to investigate its effectiveness. The sample was…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Logical Thinking, Computer Assisted Testing, Models
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Wolf, Mikyung Kim – Language Testing in Asia, 2022
In the US K-12 public school settings, each state's annual English language proficiency (ELP) assessment, as part of an educational accountability system, has tremendous impact on English learner (EL) students' academic paths and success. It is thus critical to establish a robust validation framework and empirical evidence to ensure that states'…
Descriptors: Correlation, Kindergarten, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Pritchard, Madeleine; Hilari, Katerina; Cocks, Naomi; Dipper, Lucy – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2018
Background: Discourse in adults with aphasia is increasingly the focus of assessment and therapy research. A broad range of measures is available to describe discourse, but very limited information is available on their psychometric properties. As a result, the quality of these measures is unknown, and there is very little evidence to motivate the…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Aphasia, Measures (Individuals), Discourse Analysis
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Aldridge, Jill M.; Galos, Siobhan – Learning Environments Research, 2018
Over the past 40 years, numerous instruments have been developed to assess the learning environment for a variety of purposes. Despite this plethora of available surveys, there are few that have been developed for use at the primary school level, and even fewer that have been comprehensively validated. This article describes the development of a…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Questionnaires, Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes
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Tang, Xiaodan; Yin, Yue; Lin, Qiao; Hadad, Roxana – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2018
Computational thinking (CT) has been recognized as an essential part of every child's education (Wing, 2006) and Bebras contest items have been frequently used to measure CT. Think alouds has emerged as a prominent method for identifying thought processes and correcting problems with assessments. As little research has examined validity evidence…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Measures (Individuals), Psychometrics
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Sawitri, Dian R.; Creed, Peter A.; Perdhana, Mirwan S. – Journal of Career Development, 2021
As there was no existing, psychometrically sound scale that directly assessed the discrepancies that young people experience between individual-set career goals and parent-set career goals, we developed and provided initial validation for a 15-item scale for use with young adults. In Study 1, items were developed, reviewed by experts, and…
Descriptors: Parent Aspiration, Psychometrics, Career Choice, Parent Child Relationship
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