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Direct linkNishizawa, Hitoshi – Language Testing, 2023
In this study, I investigate the construct validity and fairness pertaining to the use of a variety of Englishes in listening test input. I obtained data from a post-entry English language placement test administered at a public university in the United States. In addition to expectedly familiar American English, the test features Hawai'i,…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Listening Comprehension Tests, Language Tests, English (Second Language)
Taylor, Andrew J.; Perera, Harsha N.; Hoare, P. Nancey; Salama, Mary; McIlveen, Peter – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2023
The Work Volition Scale (WVS) is a brief measure of the perceived capacity to make career decisions despite constraints; however, systematic validation of item responses to the scale is still in its infancy. The present article reports on research conducted to investigate the latent structure of WVS, its invariance across gender, and mean…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Career Choice, Decision Making, Employee Attitudes
Canfield, James P.; Kokotek, Leslie; Kim, Suk Hee; Kinney, Wayne; Harley, Dana – Children & Schools, 2023
Social communication is closely related to overall and general adolescent mental health and predictive of problem behaviors in adulthood. However, adolescents with social communication deficits remain an underidentified and underserved population, especially in school-based settings. In part, this is due to the dearth of social communication…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Competence, Adolescents, Mental Health
Gülüm, Basak; Türker, Ibrahim Halil – Journal for Multicultural Education, 2023
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to develop a valid and reliable scale that can measure the level of respect for differences of middle school students. The validity and reliability studies of the scale draft prepared as a result of the opinions received were carried out on 964 middle school students. Design/methodology/approach: The…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Individual Differences, Social Attitudes
Jian-Xin, Yao; Yu-Xuan, Xiang; Tian, Luo; Chu-Fan, Deng; Yu-Ying, Guo; Fortus, David – Research in Science Education, 2023
Triggered by the pilot of the "Gao-Kao" reform, the avoidance of physics courses in senior high school has aroused the concern of society in China. The factors that influence the motivation to learn physics are an important research topic, especially for countries that have a disciplinary-based education tradition in secondary school.…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Physics, High School Students, Foreign Countries
Wallace, Sarah J.; Worrall, Linda; Rose, Tanya A.; Alyahya, Reem S. W.; Babbitt, Edna; Beeke, Suzanne; de Beer, Carola; Bose, Arpita; Bowen, Audrey; Brady, Marian C.; Breitenstein, Caterina; Bruehl, Stefanie; Bryant, Lucy; Cheng, Bonnie B. Y.; Cherney, Leora R.; Conroy, Paul; Copland, David A.; Croteau, Claire; Cruice, Madeline; Dipper, Lucy; Hilari, Katerina; Howe, Tami; Kelly, Helen; Kiran, Swathi; Laska, Ann-Charlotte; Marshall, Jane; Murray, Laura L.; Patterson, Janet; Pearl, Gill; Quinting, Jana; Rochon, Elizabeth; Rose, Miranda L.; Rubi-Fessen, Ilona; Sage, Karen; Simmons-Mackie, Nina; Visch-Brink, Evy; Volkmer, Anna; Webster, Janet; Whitworth, Anne; Le Dorze, Guylaine – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2023
Background: Evidence-based recommendations for a core outcome set (COS; minimum set of outcomes) for aphasia treatment research have been developed (the Research Outcome Measurement in Aphasia--ROMA, COS). Five recommended core outcome constructs: communication, language, quality of life, emotional well-being and patient-reported…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Communication Skills, Aphasia, Foreign Countries
Danielson, Melissa L.; Kassab, Hannah D.; Lee, Mary; Owens, Julie S.; Evans, Steven W.; Lipton, Corey; Charania, Sana; Young, Hayley Elia; Kubicek, Lorraine F.; Flory, Kate; Cuffe, Steven P. – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
We examined the predictive utility of the Behavior Assessment System for Children-2 Behavioral and Emotional Screening System (BASC-2-BESS) and Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) in identifying students with a mental disorder. Data were collected in a two-stage study over 34 months with kindergarten-12th grade (K-12) students (aged…
Descriptors: Rating Scales, Child Behavior, Predictive Validity, Mental Disorders
Bahr, Michael W.; Edwin, Mary; Long, Kara A. – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2023
This study focused on the development of the Multi-Tiered Systems of Support--Sustainability Scale (MTSS-SS). Review of the literature identified factors associated with sustainability for multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS), and it indicated few sustainability measures currently exist for practitioners and researchers to incorporate into MTSS…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Measurement Techniques, Multi Tiered Systems of Support, Sustainability
Download full textGul, Seyda; Ozay Kose, Esra; Ozdemir, Banuçiçek – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2023
The aim of this study is to develop a valid and reliable scale to determine the attitudes towards the activities that can be applied to the mentally retarded students about biology and nature. During the preparation of the draft form of the scale, an item pool was created from relevant literature. Then, these items were presented to expert opinion…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Test Reliability, Students with Disabilities
Casey, Kennedy; Potter, Christine E.; Lew-Williams, Casey; Wojcik, Erica H. – Developmental Psychology, 2023
Why do infants learn some words earlier than others? Many theories of early word learning focus on explaining how infants map labels onto concrete objects. However, words that are more abstract than object nouns, such as "uh-oh," "hi," "more," "up," and "all-gone," are typically among the first to…
Descriptors: Nouns, Infants, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development
Frazier, Thomas W.; Khaliq, Izma; Scullin, Keeley; Uljarevic, Mirko; Shih, Andy; Karpur, Arun – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2023
At present, there are no brief, freely-available, informant-report measures that evaluate key challenging behaviors relevant to youth with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or other developmental disabilities (DD). This paper describes the development, refinement, and initial psychometric evaluation of a new 18-item measure, the Open-Source…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Psychometrics, Behavior Problems, Autism Spectrum Disorders
Elif Aksan Kilicaslan – Pedagogical Research, 2023
In this study, it is aimed to reveal what kind of relationship exists between prospective teachers' thinking structures and their level of writing proofs. This study was carried out as a case study. The study was carried out with 82 prospective teachers enrolled in the Department of Secondary School Mathematics Teaching of a state university…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Teachers, Validity, Mathematical Logic
Jaimie Stickl Haugen; Kenya G. Bledsoe; Janita Springfield – Professional School Counseling, 2023
This article presents the development of the Antiracist School Counseling Inventory (ASCI), an instrument designed to support school counselors engaging in antiracist counseling practice. We administered the ASCI to a sample of 457 practicing school counselors. Results of an exploratory factor analysis yielded a 19-item exploratory model…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Racism, School Counseling, School Counselors
Fiji Phuti; Setlhomo Koloi-Keaikitse; Gaelebale Nnunu Tsheko; Seth Oppong – SAGE Open, 2023
There are concerns that soft skills assessment has been conceptualized within the Western context and may not reflect the indigenous African worldview. Without relevant soft skills assessment contextualized in the African cultural cosmology, there is a limitation in assessing African conceptions of abilities. The purpose of this study was to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Soft Skills, Indigenous Knowledge, African Culture
Pong, Hok-Ko; Leung, Chi Hung; Cheung, Ho Yin – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2023
In the current research, we developed and validated a questionnaire to measure Chinese working adults' motivation to study accounting on a path of lifelong learning in Hong Kong, China. We conducted individual in-depth interviews with adult learners (n = 30) and professionals (n = 12) in study 1 and study 2. Qualitative analysis showed six…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Foreign Countries, College Students
