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Peer reviewedBickman, Leonard, Ed. – New Directions for Program Evaluation, 1990
Eight articles discuss Program Theory (PT) construction issues, administrators as applied theorists, tests of PT, using path analysis to develop/evaluate PT, using PT to describe/measure program quality, developing/testing program classification and function theories, a pattern-matching approach to link PT and evaluation data, and linking PT and…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Classification, Evaluation Methods, Innovation
Peer reviewedDunlap, William R.; Sands, Deanna Iceman – British Journal of Special Education, 1989
A total of 274 British youth and adults with handicaps were administered the National Independent Living Skills assessment. Cluster analysis suggested that handicapped persons could be classified into four groups from lowest functioning to highest functioning, using independent living skills variables relating to living, work, and educational…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Adolescents, Adults, Classification
Peer reviewedPotenza, Maria T.; Dorans, Neil J. – Applied Psychological Measurement, 1995
A classification scheme is presented for procedures to detect differential item functioning (DIF) for dichotomously scored items that is applicable to new DIF procedures for polytomously scored items. A formal development of a polytomous version of a dichotomous DIF technique is presented. (SLD)
Descriptors: Classification, Evaluation Methods, Identification, Item Bias
Peer reviewedKehoe, Jerard F. Tenopyr, Mary L. – Psychological Assessment, 1994
Methods of adjusting group differences in assessment and test scores are described, classified, and evaluated. Investigation of the relationship between intended use of test scores and the appropriate meaning of scores is essential for fair treatment in assessment. (SLD)
Descriptors: Classification, Educational Assessment, Equal Education, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedMegargee, Edwin I. – Psychological Assessment, 1995
The methodological and practical problems that are especially common in or unique to assessment research in correctional settings are discussed. The distinctive culture of correctional institutions and the complications caused by governing bodies contribute to the particular problems encountered in collecting and analyzing data. (SLD)
Descriptors: Classification, Correctional Institutions, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Mudford, Oliver C.; Hogg, James; Roberts, Jessie – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1999
A study attempted to replicate a previous study that presented reliability data from recordings of behavior state using a 13-category coding system. Replication was unsuccessful. Obtained mean percentage agreement on occurrence for individual behavior state and participants (n=34) ranged across observer pairs from 0 to 58 percent. (Contains 13…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems, Behavior Rating Scales
Peer reviewedWaller, Stacey A.; Armstrong, Kevin J.; McGrath, Ann M.; Sullivan, Cristin L. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1999
This review summarizes subject selection and diagnostic procedures documented in 142 empirical articles published between 1993 and 1997. Although most researchers reported use of standard diagnostic criteria in classifying subjects, numerous studies did not report diagnostic methods and there was often a lack of specification of inclusion and…
Descriptors: Autism, Classification, Clinical Diagnosis, Disability Identification
Direct linkShaw, Ian; Faulkner, Alex – American Journal of Evaluation, 2006
Practitioner involvement in evaluation, research, development, and other forms of disciplined inquiry that are small scale, local, grounded, and carried out by professionals who directly deliver those services is embraced across a wide range of professions as essential to good professional practice. However, little is known about the character,…
Descriptors: Personnel Evaluation, Social Work, Evaluation Methods, Public Service
Miguel, C. F.; Petursdottir, A. I.; Carr, J. E. – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2005
The purpose of this study was to determine whether multiple-tact training and receptive-discrimination training could be used to teach thematically related vocal intraverbals to typically developing preschool children. Multiple-tact training involved teaching a child to name both the item and the category to which the item belonged.…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Visual Stimuli, Verbal Communication, Classification
Gullickson, Arlen R.; Hanssen, Carl E. – New Directions for Evaluation, 2006
This article uses a program-level evaluation to assess the characteristics of smaller-scale project evaluations and their use for project improvement and accountability purposes. The authors used available information from the annual Advanced Technological Education (ATE) program evaluation surveys to describe the characteristics of evaluation…
Descriptors: Evaluators, Program Evaluation, Measures (Individuals), Accountability
Nakken, H.; Vlaskamp, C. – Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities, 2007
There is extensive discussion on the quality of education and support for individuals with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD) in relation to inclusion and full citizenship. The discussions are complicated because of differences or lack of clarity in the description of the variations and types of PIMD. A description of the core…
Descriptors: Multiple Disabilities, Mental Retardation, Definitions, Classification
Ivanova, Masha Y.; Achenbach, Thomas M.; Rescorla, Leslie A.; Dumenci, Levent; Almqvist, Fredrik; Bilenberg, Niels; Bird, Hector; Broberg, Anders G.; Dobrean, Anca; Dopfner, Manfred; Erol, Nese; Forns, Maria; Hannesdottir, Helga; Kanbayashi, Yasuko; Lambert, Michael C.; Leung, Patrick; Minaei, Asghar; Mulatu, Mesfin S.; Novik, Torunn; Oh, Kyung Ja; Roussos, Alexandra; Sawyer, Michael; Simsek, Zeynep; Steinhausen, Hans- Christoph; Weintraub, Sheila; Winkler Metzke, Christa; Wolanczyk, Tomasz; Zilber, Nelly; Zukauskiene, Rita; Verhulst, Frank C. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2007
As a basis for theories of psychopathology, clinical psychology and related disciplines need sound taxonomies that are generalizable across diverse populations. To test the generalizability of a statistically derived 8-syndrome taxonomic model for youth psychopathology, confirmatory factor analyses (CFAs) were performed on the Youth Self-Report…
Descriptors: Psychopathology, Child Behavior, Check Lists, Age
Abedi, Jamal – Journal of Applied Testing Technology, 2009
English language learners with disabilities (ELLWD) face many challenges in their academic career. Learning a new language and coping with their disabilities create obstacles in their academic progress. Variables relegating accessibility of assessments for students with disabilities and ELL students may seriously hinder the academic performance of…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Second Language Learning, Disabilities, Classification
Gini, Motti; Oppenheim, David; Sagi-Schwartz, Abraham – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2007
This study examined associations between infant-mother attachment, assessed using Ainsworth's Strange Situation at 12-months, and mother-child narrative co-construction in 110 Israeli mothers and their 71/2 year-old children to examine aspects of Bowlby's (1973) notion of "Goal-Corrected Partnerships". Narrative co-constructions were…
Descriptors: Mothers, Attachment Behavior, Parent Child Relationship, Infants
Download full textWang, Lin; McNamara, James F. – 1997
This paper shares the findings of an inquiry that evaluated 50 survey articles published in a refereed journal, "Educational Administration Quarterly," by examining the 53 sample designs reported in the articles. The paper presents a typology of the sample designs identified, discusses the problems of sample selection and estimation…
Descriptors: Classification, Editing, Educational Research, Estimation (Mathematics)
