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Nichols, Sharon L. – National Education Policy Center, 2016
This Center for American Progress report examines whether states' adoption of standards-based policies predicts low-income students' NAEP achievement trends in fourth and eighth grade math and reading throughout the 2003-2013 decade. The report claims to analyze changes across five separate two-year intervals, but it only reports findings for…
Descriptors: School Effectiveness, Disadvantaged Schools, Poverty, Scores
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Baker, Doris Luft; Biancarosa, Gina; Park, Bitnara Jasmine; Bousselot, Tracy; Smith, Jean-Louise; Baker, Scott K.; Kame'enui, Edward J.; Alonzo, Julie; Tindal, Gerald – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2015
We examined the criterion validity and diagnostic efficiency of oral reading fluency (ORF), word reading accuracy, and reading comprehension (RC) for students in Grades 7 and 8 taking into account form effects of ORF, time of assessment, and individual differences, including student designations of limited English proficiency and special education…
Descriptors: Oral Reading, Reading Fluency, Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests
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Moreno, Amanda J.; Klute, Mary M. – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2011
This study documents the reliability and validity of a new infant-toddler authentic assessment, the Learning Through Relating Child Assets Record (LTR-CAR), and its feasibility of use by infant-toddler caregivers in an Early Head Start program. In a sample of 136 children, results indicated a strong internal structure of the LTR-CAR as evidenced…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Disadvantaged Youth, Caregivers, Toddlers
Elshout, Jan – Tijdschrift voor Onderwijsresearch, 1977
To be able to conclude anything firm about either a predictor or a criterion from the correlation between the two, a whole range of conditions must be met. Those conditions, which are in effect predictors of validity, are discussed, with the emphasis on the educational situation. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Predictive Measurement, Predictive Validity, Predictor Variables
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Klimoski, Richard; Brickner, Mary – Personnel Psychology, 1987
Affirms the evidence for predictive validity of assessment centers and concludes that assessment centers can work for a variety of purposes and in numerous contexts. Raises possible explainations for the predictive validity observed in assessment centers and raises implications for practice and guidance of future research. (Author/KS)
Descriptors: Assessment Centers (Personnel), Job Performance, Managerial Occupations, Performance Factors
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Passmore, David L.; Irvin, Donald E. – Journal of Industrial Teacher Education, 1974
The generation of empirically-based equations is within the grasp of most researchers in occupational education. This paper was designed to develop a sensitivity to the need for cross-validation in these circumstances. Program CROSVAL is a means of bridging the gap between the need for, and mechanization of, cross validation. (Author/DS)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Research, Predictive Measurement, Predictive Validity
Asher, James J. – Educ Psychol Meas, 1970
Descriptors: College Students, Grade Prediction, Interviews, Physical Characteristics
Kaase, Kristopher J. – 1994
This study tested the ability of the Student Adaptation to College Questionnaire (SACQ) to predict attrition for first-time, full-time freshmen at a predominantly white, medium-sized, liberal arts, denominational college in the southeast. A random sample of 100 students were surveyed of which 84 returned usable questionnaires (57 females, 27 male,…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Freshmen, College Students, Higher Education