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Saving Time, Increasing Learning: Using Checklists to Help Students Perform Disciplinary Writing Conventions
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Wood, Marianna D.; Wood, Jessa M. – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2018
Students in upper-level courses are expected to observe disciplinary conventions in writing assignments. Common recommendations for teaching conventions require substantial time for instructor feedback and in-class instruction. As an alternative, we tested the effectiveness of a checklist in improving students' performance of these conventions.…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Writing Achievement, Writing Skills, Writing Strategies
Two-Step Screening of the Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers in Thai Children with Language Delay and Typically Developing Children
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Srisinghasongkram, Pornchada; Pruksananonda, Chandhita; Chonchaiya, Weerasak – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2016
This study aimed to validate the use of two-step Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (M-CHAT) screening adapted for a Thai population. Our participants included both high-risk children with language delay (N = 109) and low-risk children with typical development (N = 732). Compared with the critical scoring criteria, the total scoring method…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Toddlers
Estimating Guessing Effects on the Vocabulary Levels Test for Differing Degrees of Word Knowledge
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Stewart, Jeffrey; White, David A. – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2011
Multiple-choice tests such as the Vocabulary Levels Test (VLT) are often viewed as a preferable estimator of vocabulary knowledge when compared to yes/no checklists, because self-reporting tests introduce the possibility of students overreporting or underreporting scores. However, multiple-choice tests have their own unique disadvantages. It has…
Descriptors: Guessing (Tests), Scoring Formulas, Multiple Choice Tests, Test Reliability
An Analysis of Provisional Teachers Failing the Mississippi Assessment Instruments for Certification.
Amos, Neil; Cheeseman, Robert H. – 1991
The Mississippi Teacher Assessment Instruments (MTAI) for the evaluation of beginning teachers has been adopted by the Mississippi State Board of Education. The MTAI assesses on-the-job performance and consists of 16 competencies measured by 3 separate instruments, which are to be administered twice during the beginning teacher's first year of…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Check Lists, Classroom Observation Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education
Learning Accomplishment Profile (LAP).
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Sanford, Anne R. – 1976
This check list provides a method for observing and recording the development of children aged 1 to 6 and handicapped children in six categories of skills: gross motor development, fine motor development, social, self help, cognitive, and language. The scoring system is designed to provide information on the rate of development in each category;…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Check Lists, Cognitive Ability, Criterion Referenced Tests
A Manual for Use of the Learning Accomplishment Profile.
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Sanford, Anne R., Ed.; And Others – 1976
This manual describes the Learning Accomplishment Profile (LAP), a check list, and tells how it is administered, scored, and used to evaluate children's skill development and rate of development. The items were drawn from a number of well-known assessment tools, and measure skills appropriate for normal children aged 1-6 and handicapped children.…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Check Lists, Cognitive Ability, Criterion Referenced Tests