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Soubhik Barari; Ji Eun Park; Susan Paddock – NORC at the University of Chicago, 2025
Rankings of international higher education institutions have become influential, newsworthy metrics worldwide. This is unsurprising given the rising prevalence of cross-national college attendance. This report evaluates the methodologies of three major international ranking systems: the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU, or…
Descriptors: Reputation, Institutional Evaluation, Colleges, Research Methodology
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Huang, Jinyan; Dong, Yaxin; Han, Chunwei; Wang, Xiaojun – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2023
Using expert reviews and item response theory (IRT), this study evaluated the language- and culture-related construct-irrelevant variance and reliability of the 2019 TIMSS sense of school belonging scale (SSBS) for grades 4 and 8. The five items of the SSBS, which were identical for both grades, were reviewed for the language- and culture-related…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Test Reliability, Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries
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Sforza, Elisabetta; Onesimo, Roberta; Triumbari, Elizabeth Katherine; Leoni, Chiara; Giorgio, Valentina; Rigante, Donato; Proli, Francesco; Kuczynska, Eliza Maria; Ramsay, Maria; Zampino, Giuseppe – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2023
Background: The Montreal Children's Hospital Feeding Scale (MCH-FS) allows paediatricians and other health care professionals to identify feeding difficulties among children. Aim: To translate and adapt the MCH-FS into Italian, and to evaluate the validity and reliability of this Italian version of the Montreal Children's Hospital Feeding Scale…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Hospitals, Hospitalized Children, Food