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Phonology, Orthography, and Decoding Skills within and across English and Chinese
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Sun, Congying; Branum-Martin, Lee; Peng, Peng; Tao, Sha – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2018
The current study examined the construct of word-reading skills within and across English and Chinese. One hundred forty-three 5th graders who were native Chinese (Mandarin) speakers learning English as a second language completed 19 tasks representing phonological awareness, orthographic knowledge, and word decoding in both English and Chinese.…
Descriptors: Phonological Awareness, Orthographic Symbols, Decoding (Reading), Grade 5
A Factor-Analytic Study of the Structure of the Brigance Comprehensive Inventory of Basic Skills-II
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Breidenbach, Daniel H.; French, Brian F. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2012
The Brigance Comprehensive Inventory of Basic Skills-II (CIBS-II) is the newest version of a long-standing instrument that is useful for identifying student achievement, identifying and monitoring academic strengths and weaknesses, obtaining data to support referrals, and reporting progress for individual educational plans. Since the CIBS-II is…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Test Validity, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation
Fitting Multidimensional Amotivation into the Self-Determination Theory Nomological Network: Application in School Physical Education
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Vlachopoulos, Symeon P.; Katartzi, Ermioni S.; Kontou, Maria G. – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2013
The present study investigated the nomological validity of the Amotivation Inventory-Physical Education (Shen, Wingert, Li, Sun, & Rukavina, 2010b) scores by examining the associations of ability, effort, value, and task characteristics amotivation beliefs with self-determination theory variables. Data were collected from 401 fifth- and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Validity, Motivation, Physical Education
Construct Equivalence across Grades in a Vertical Scale for a K-12 Large-Scale Reading Assessment
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Wang, Shudong; Jiao, Hong – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2009
In practice, vertical scales have been continually used to measure students' achievement progress across several grade levels and have been considered very challenging psychometric procedures. Recently, such practices have been drawing many criticisms. The major criticisms focus on dimensionality and construct equivalence of the latent trait or…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Elementary Secondary Education, Measures (Individuals), Psychometrics
Structure and Validity of People in My Life: A Self-Report Measure of Attachment in Late Childhood
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Ridenour, Ty A.; Greenberg, Mark T.; Cook, Elizabeth T. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2006
No self-report measure of attachment is well validated for middle-childhood. This study examined the validity and factor structure of the People in My Life (PIML) measure in 320 urban, fifth and sixth graders. Validity analyses consisted of correlational analyses between PIML subscales and the Child Behavior Checklist, Delinquency Rating Scale for…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Validity, Attachment Behavior, Grade 5