As evidence-based interventions are scaled, fidelity of implementation, and thus effectiveness, often wanes. Validated fidelity measures can improve researchers' ability to attribute outcomes to the intervention and help practitioners feel more confident in implementing the intervention as intended. We aim to provide a model for the validation of…

In this technical report, data are presented on the predictive and concurrent relation between various student demographic variables (gender, race/ethnicity, special education status, Title 1 status, English language learning status, and economic disadvantage) and three reading easyCBMs (passage reading fluency, vocabulary, and multiple-choice…

THE CENTRAL PURPOSE OF THIS RESEARCH WAS TO SELECT PREDICTIVE INSTRUMENTS FOR EVALUATING GROUP COUNSELING SESSIONS DESIGNED TO ENHANCE THE MENTAL HEALTH OF PROSPECTIVE ELEMENTARY TEACHERS. A SUBSIDIARY PURPOSE WAS TO FORMULATE A PROPOSAL FOR A GROUP COUNSELING PROGRAM. UTILIZING Q-SORT PEER AND INSTRUCTOR RATINGS ON MENTAL HEALTH…

Experimental literature on expectancy change and performance effects of expectancy is examined and interpreted as challenging the deep pthology" concepts of the poor, and thus in turn questioning the basis of intervention programs based on these concepts. (JM)

As part of a preliminary validation and to determine whether the Ohio Vocational Interest Survey (OVIS) could discriminate among the interests of high school students in six vocational areas (agriculture, distributive education, home economics, health, office, and trade and industrial), the OVIS was administered to 2,387 seniors in 24 schools…

In order to identify a battery of aptitude tests which could adequately predict the success of applicants to its court-reporting program, MacCormac Junior College contracted with Science Research Associates in Fall 1976 to conduct a longitudinal validation study of court-reporting aptitude measures. Eight tests were administered to each…