The number of complaints university lecturers make about a lack of knowledge, especially first-year students' procedural knowledge, has increased recently. Due to missing adequate empirical evidence, a survey of procedural knowledge among students of Austrian high schools in their final year was conducted. For this purpose, test items for…

This study aims to conduct validity and reliability of a measurement tool developed to determine university students' levels of digital risk taking. 646 undergraduate students from 8 different universities voluntarily participated in the study. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were conducted to reveal the factor structure of the…

Situational Judgement Tests (SJTs) are popular to screen for social skills during undergraduate medical admission as they have been shown to predict relevant study outcomes. Two different types of SJTs can be distinguished: Traditional SJTs, which measure general effective behavior, and construct-driven SJTs which are designed to measure specific…

High-stakes exams are often administered at designated test centers, requiring many students to test in unfamiliar environments. We investigate whether such arrangements impact students' test performance and, by extension, access to educational opportunities. Using unique administrative data from China's national college entrance examination…

Introduction: The Anxiety, Depression and Mood Scale (ADAMS), a mental health screening tool developed for individuals with intellectual disabilities, has yet to be evaluated in adults with Down syndrome. We included the ADAMS in a Dementia Protocol. Method: We reviewed the charts of 71 adults with Down syndrome seen in a specialty clinic and…

Globalization and increases in the numbers of English language learners have led to a growing demand for English proficiency assessments of spoken language. In this paper, we describe the development of an automatic pronunciation scorer built on state-of-the-art deep neural network models. The model is trained on a bespoke human-rated dataset that…

It is important to determine the level of pedagogical content knowledge of teachers regarding skills. The aim of this study is to establish the theoretical framework of skill-specific pedagogical content knowledge and to develop a reliable and valid scale to measure teachers' entrepreneurship pedagogical content knowledge. The draft scale form was…

Developing an assessment tool to identify mathematical misconceptions is important for early intervention and support for at-risk students. This exploratory sequential mixed methods study aimed to develop and validate a questionnaire for self-reflection on mathematical misconceptions among senior high school students using exploratory and…

The rapid spread of information and communication technologies available via the internet has led to increased incorporation of e-learning systems (ELS) into education. Determining the criteria for users' effective adoption of an ELS is complex and must be multidimensional to increase user satisfaction and system effectiveness in practice and in…

Knowledge of gross anatomy and embryology continues to be important for medical student training. However, the relevance of anatomical knowledge during the preclinical years remains underexplored considering recent revisions to the scoring of the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE). Guided by the framework of cognitive…

Men's participation is an important indicator for achieving gender equality. The purpose of this study is to adapt the "Support for Gender Equality among Men Scale (SGEMS)" developed by Sudkamper et al. (2020) to Turkish. The scale examines men's support for gender equality in two sub-dimensions: public space and household. In the study,…

The assessment of model fit in latent trait modeling is an integral part of correctly applying the model. Still the assessment of model fit has been less utilized for ideal point models such as the Generalized Graded Unfolding Models (GGUM). The current study assesses the performance of the relative fit indices "AIC" and "BIC,"…

Certification organizations aim to assess candidates on their breadth and depth of knowledge to determine eligibility for certification in their field of specialty. Assessments used for certification, when appropriately constructed, should use questions (or items) that assess the entirety of the field. However, comparing the plethora of the…

The original 90-item Creative Behavior Inventory (CBI) was a landmark self-report scale in creativity research, and the 28-item brief form developed nearly 20 years ago continues to be a popular measure of everyday creativity. Relatively little is known, however, about the psychometric properties of this widely used scale. In the current research,…

Published work on vocabulary assessment has grown substantially in the last 10 years, but it is still somewhat outside the mainstream of the field. There has been a recent call for those developing vocabulary tests to apply professional standards to their work, especially in validating their instruments for specified purposes before releasing them…