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Qian, X. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2018
Background: This study aimed to examine whether verbal responsiveness in special education teachers varied among subgroups of children with autism spectrum disorder (n = 112) who differed in cognitive and language abilities. Methods: Participants were divided into clusters using cluster analysis based on standardised cognitive and language tests…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Verbal Communication, Children, Autism
Zahner, Doris; Steedle, Jeffrey T. – Council for Aid to Education, 2015
Some universities administer standardized tests to estimate school effects on student learning. To that end, many of those institutions choose to gather cross-sectional data (freshmen and seniors in the same academic year) rather than longitudinal data. The effects of this decision on institutional assessment results are generally unknown. The…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Case Studies, Postsecondary Education, Comparative Analysis
Cresswell, John; Schwantner, Ursula; Waters, Charlotte – OECD Publishing, 2015
This report reviews the major international and regional large-scale educational assessments, including international surveys, school-based surveys and household-based surveys. The report compares and contrasts the cognitive and contextual data collection instruments and implementation methods used by the different assessments in order to identify…
Descriptors: International Assessment, Educational Assessment, Data Collection, Comparative Analysis
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Tourangeau, Karen; Nord, Christine; Lê, Thanh; Wallner-Allen, Kathleen; Vaden-Kiernan, Nancy; Blaker, Lisa; Najarian, Michelle – National Center for Education Statistics, 2018
This manual provides guidance and documentation for users of the longitudinal kindergarten-fourth grade (K-4) data file of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 2010-11 (ECLS-K:2011). It mainly provides information specific to the fourth-grade round of data collection. The first chapter provides an overview of the…
Descriptors: Children, Longitudinal Studies, Surveys, Kindergarten
Bohr, Louise; And Others – 1992
This study examined the relative intellectual impacts of two- and four-year college educational programs by focusing on changes in reading comprehension, mathematics, and critical thinking skills in 204 freshmen students who attended either a public two-year community college near a large metropolitan area or a public four-year, urban research…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Tests, College Freshmen
Pascarella, Ernest; And Others – 1992
This report sought to test the hypothesis that living on campus fosters cognitive growth by estimating the relative freshman-year gains in reading comprehension, mathematical reasoning, and critical thinking of resident and commuter students at an urban university. Data were collected from 210 college freshmen students at a large research…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Tests, College Freshmen