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Chang, Wen-Chia Claire – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Preparing and supporting teachers to enact teaching practice that responds to diversity, challenges educational inequities, and promotes social justice is a pressing yet daunting and complex task. More research is needed to understand how and to what extent teacher education programs prepare and support teacher candidates to enhance the…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Educational Practices, Equal Education, Item Response Theory
Maherally, Uzma Nooreen – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a science assessment tool termed the Life Sciences Assessment (LSA) in order to assess preschool children's conceptions of basic life sciences. The hypothesis was that the four sub-constructs, each of which can be measured through a series of questions on the LSA, will make a significant…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Hypothesis Testing, Test Construction, Preschool Children
Reid, Melissa A. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this study was to examine the internal structure, relationships with other variables, and diagnostic accuracy of scores on the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule-Generic (ADOS-G; Lord et al., 1999) for the purpose of diagnostic decision-making. Participants were 462 children enrolled in a public school district in the southern…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Scores, Autism, Clinical Diagnosis
Longstreet, Phil L. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this manuscript is, first and foremost, to present new research in the Information Systems realm that will support future research into perceptions of Visual Appeal in an online environment. In furtherance of these goals, the research draws on Composition Theory to articulate a two-essay research agenda. Composition Theory states…
Descriptors: Aesthetics, Internet, Web Sites, Essays
Chou, Yu-Chi – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation consists of four chapters. Chapter 1 provides an introduction to the self-determination literature documenting the importance of promoting the self-determination of transition and secondary age students with disabilities, as well as a summary of research examining the self-determination of students with disabilities across…
Descriptors: Self Determination, Disabilities, Transitional Programs, Autism
Carney, Megan Strawsine – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This paper describes the confirmatory factor analysis, validity, and reliability data collection stage of the development of a scale to measure mainstream teachers' self-efficacy beliefs for teaching ELL (English Language Learner) students. Data were collected from 708 K through 12 teachers and pre-service teachers with varying degrees of…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, English Instruction, Rating Scales, Test Reliability