Introduction: Dysarthria, a motor speech disorder that has a significant impact on communication, requires precise assessment for accurate diagnosis and intervention. Although internationally recognised assessment tools exist, many are not culturally or linguistically adapted for Spanish-speaking populations. The objective of this study was to…

Education policy research aimed at eliminating racism necessitates methodological innovation that fosters both equity-centered approaches and robust empirical analysis of the systemic nature of racism. Most quantitative research in educational psychology omits the racist environment that students in K-12 education exist in (DeCuir-Gunby &…

This policy brief examines the long-term outcomes of Texas high school students who graduated via the Individual Graduation Committee (IGC) pathway, a mechanism that permits graduation for students who fail one or two End-of-Course (EOC) standardized exams. Drawing on a matched comparison of students who narrowly failed versus narrowly passed…

This study aims to develop and validate the scale on the perceptions and knowledge of trainee teachers regarding the inclusion of students with disabilities (PERKIN), designed to assess the perceptions and knowledge of pre-service teachers regarding the inclusion of students with disabilities. Grounded in the recognition of inclusive education as…

Given the widespread presence of competition in educational settings and its complex impact on science learning, how students complete tasks in competitive environments has attracted a wide range of attention. The purpose of this study is to compare students' performance on physics conceptual questions in noncompetitive and competitive…

When designing assessments such as examinations, it is important to consider which materials students should be permitted to access during the assessment, for example, whether to allow students access to a relevant book, such as a literary text. Debates among teachers and assessment professionals highlight differing views about the advantages and…

Collocation-focused exercises in language courses often require students to choose the right words from a given set of candidates to reassemble broken-up collocations. Other exercises invite the students themselves to supply the missing words to complete collocations. One would expect exercises to serve the purpose of retrieval practice after…

Background/Context: This study examines the relationship between instructional quality, student engagement, and standardized assessment outcomes within charter schools. Utilizing classroom observation data from 27 schools over two academic years, we construct an "Antecedents to Student Engagement" index, capturing key instructional…

Visuospatial (VS) skills have been shown to be a crucial foundation for success in STEM courses and careers while the impact of visuospatial self-efficacy (VSSE) has been overlooked. To address the lack of a reliable instrument to measure VSSE, we developed and validated a VSSE scale. Exploratory Factor Analysis of the initial 42 scale items (n =…

The objective of this study is to develop a scale to measure science and biology teacher candidates' awareness of micro-plastic pollution. The sample group consists of 586 participants from 4 universities who are currently enrolled in science and biology teaching programmes. "Microplastic Pollution Awareness Scale (MPAS)" used as data…

The aim of this study is to examine how the practice of different item removal strategies during exploratory factor analysis (EFA) phase of scale development change the number of factors, factor loadings, explained variance ratio, and reliability values (a and ?) explained. In the study, data obtained from 379 university students were used for the…

The present study examined the processing and performance of examinees in reading comprehension (RC) tests, when they read the whole text "prior" to its questions ("text-first" strategy [TFs]) compared to reading the text "while" and "for" answering the questions ("questions-first" strategy [QFs]).…

Parenting style was a set of parental attitude and behavior communicated by parents to children, forming an emotional climate condition used by parents to raise children. The study on parenting style had been conducted for a long time, but measurement of parenting style in Indonesia was still experiencing problem due to lack of sufficient and…

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to develop and empirically test the student engagement scale and to understand the factors that contribute to student engagement at higher educational institutions. Design/methodology/approach: The investigation started with a rummage for variables, available in the literature, 59 in numbers, which were then…

Over the past decade, testing and assessing spoken-language interpreting has garnered an increasing amount of attention from stakeholders in interpreter education, professional certification, and interpreting research. This is because in these fields assessment results provide a critical evidential basis for high-stakes decisions, such as the…