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Tu, Yangjun; Wang, Juanjuan; Yao, Limin – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2019
This study details the development of the "Classroom Touch Concern Scale" (CTC), which was designed to measure individual differences among teachers regarding their feelings of concern when touching students in the classroom. The CTC incorporates two correlated dimensions: CTC associated with touching students of the same gender and CTC…
Descriptors: Likert Scales, Teacher Student Relationship, Nonverbal Communication, Tactual Perception
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Weiss, Lawrence G.; Gregoire, Jacques; Zhu, Jianjun – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2016
Many Flynn effect (FE) studies compare scores across different editions of Wechsler's IQ tests. When construct changes are introduced by the test developers in the new edition, however, the presumed generational effects are difficult to untangle from changes due to test content. To remove this confound, we use the same edition of Wechsler…
Descriptors: Generational Differences, Intelligence Tests, Comparative Analysis, Scores
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Marcotte, Amanda M.; Parker, Christopher; Furey, William; Hands, Jessica L. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2014
There is empirical evidence to suggest that oral language and vocabulary on entering kindergarten are the best predictors of later reading success. Identifying skills that are predictive of later achievement using psychometrically sound measurement methods is a necessary component of early intervention efforts. Currently, there are limited methods…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Skills, Preschool Children, Curriculum Based Assessment, Screening Tests
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Betts, Joseph; Pickart, Mary; Heistad, Dave – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2009
The assessment of early literacy and numeracy skills can provide useful and important information in pursuance of the goal to increase student academic achievement. At present, there have been promising results using curriculum-based measurement (CBM) for evaluating early literacy and early numeracy. There has been little research investigating…
Descriptors: Curriculum Based Assessment, Numeracy, Emergent Literacy, Construct Validity
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Swanson, Jennifer R.; Bradley-Johnson, Sharon; Johnson, C. Merle; O'Dell, Anna Rubenaker – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2009
Three studies examine the validity of the Preschool Form of the Cognitive Abilities Scale--Second Edition (CAS-2). Significant high concurrent criterion-related validity correlations, corrected for restricted range, are found between the CAS-2 and the Detroit Test of Learning Ability--Primary: Third Edition for 26 three-year-olds (r[subscript c] =…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Test Validity, Young Children, Adjustment (to Environment)
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Webb, Mi-Young Lee; Schwanenflugel, Paula J.; Kim, Seock-Ho – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2004
The purpose of this study was to determine the psychometric characteristics of a phonological awareness assessment for prekindergarten children using Messick's (1989) framework for unitary construct validity. Upon entry into prekindergarten, children were given rhyme discrimination, syllable segmentation, initial phoneme isolation, and phoneme…
Descriptors: Age, Phonemes, Phonology, Preschool Education