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Henry, Suzette – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Struggling readers in Grades 7-8 at a large, suburban middle school in Georgia have consistently failed to make adequate yearly progress in reading. In recent years, interest in improving the literacy of adolescents has increased due to the growing number of students experiencing reading difficulties on state and national standardized tests. The…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 7, Grade 8, Reading Difficulties
Spooren, Pieter; Brockx, Bert; Mortelmans, Dimitri – Review of Educational Research, 2013
This article provides an extensive overview of the recent literature on student evaluation of teaching (SET) in higher education. The review is based on the SET meta-validation model, drawing upon research reports published in peer-reviewed journals since 2000. Through the lens of validity, we consider both the more traditional research themes in…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Teacher Evaluation, Test Validity, Educational Research
Airola, Denise Tobin – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Changes to state tests impact the ability of State Education Agencies (SEAs) to monitor change in performance over time. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the Standardized Performance Growth Index (PGIz), a proposed statistical model for measuring change in student and school performance, across transitions in tests. The PGIz is a…
Descriptors: Evidence, Reference Groups, Norm Referenced Tests, Criterion Referenced Tests
Thagard, Elaine Kirk; Hilsmier, Amanda Strong; Easterbrooks, Susan R. – American Annals of the Deaf, 2011
Deaf and hard of hearing children have shown delays and difficulties in pragmatic behaviors due to insufficient exposure to common daily discourse and underlying impoverishment in all components of language development. In a study in a school district in a southeastern U.S. state, the researchers investigated the relationship between…
Descriptors: Speech, General Education, Oral Language, Partial Hearing
Hosp, John L.; Hosp, Michelle A.; Dole, Janice K. – School Psychology Review, 2011
Universal screening measures are an integral component of any tiered system of instructional delivery. Recent studies of screening measures have often excluded examinations of bias in predictive validity. The present study examined a common screening instrument for evidence of bias in predictive validity across the four disaggregation categories…
Descriptors: Evidence, Reading Fluency, Federal Legislation, Predictive Validity
Ellis, Leonie; Kelder, Jo-Anne – Education for Information, 2012
Technology Enhanced Learning and Teaching (TELT) is a ubiquitous feature of the learning and teaching landscape at the University of Tasmania (UTAS), supported and guided by a university-wide TELT action plan. This paper reports on the most recent stage of an ongoing investigation into the use of ePortfolio learning technology to improve students'…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Portfolio Assessment, Electronic Publishing, Teamwork
Redelius, Karin; Hay, Peter J. – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2012
Background: The pedagogical and status implications of assessment in physical education (PE) have been recognised in the past. How students perceive being assessed and graded is a neglected area, however. While some studies have garnered students' perceptions of assessment when no grade is awarded or the stakes are relatively low, we know less…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Student Attitudes, Grades (Scholastic), Focus Groups
Garcia, Patricia Lee Stout – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The focus of this study was to determine if there was a significant relationship amongst tenth and eleventh graders' (secondary students) Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) scores due to teacher personality styles. One model that was reviewed in this study was the five factor model. The study used the Big Five Inventory (BFI), to…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Personality Traits, Grade 10, Grade 11
Zhu, Weimo; Plowman, Sharon Ann; Park, Youngsik – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2010
This study evaluated the use of a new primary field test method based on test equating to address inconsistent classification among field tests. We analyzed students' information on the Progressive Aerobic Cardiovascular Endurance Run (PACER), mile run (MR), and VO[subscript 2]max from three data sets (college: n = 94; middle school: n = 39;…
Descriptors: Equated Scores, Field Tests, Physical Activities, Classification
Dove, Mary Jane; Pearson, L. Carolyn; Hooper, Herbert – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2010
The relationship between grade span configuration and academic achievement of 6th-grade students as measured by the Arkansas Benchmark Examination, which is the approved NCLB criterion-referenced annual assessment, was examined. The results of a one-between two-within analysis of variance for the 3-year state-wide study of 6th graders' combined…
Descriptors: Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Academic Achievement, Grade 6, Statistical Analysis
Townsend, Monika; Konold, Timothy R. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2010
Psychometric properties of the Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening for Preschool (PALS-PreK) instrument were investigated in a sample of 4,518 children. PALS-PreK figures prominently in state and federal early literacy programs as an assessment of emergent literacy skills in preschool-aged children. Exploratory Factor Analysis, Confirmatory…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Phonological Awareness, Alphabets, Language Skills
Muñoz, Marco A.; Fischetti, John C.; Prather, Joseph R. – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2014
The Early College High School (ECHS) initiative developed in response to calls to significantly decrease the number of first-generation college and underserved students of color and from poverty who are high school dropouts or marginally graduates (i.e., ill prepared for college). The ECHS model is different from other educational reforms in that…
Descriptors: High Schools, Urban Schools, Disadvantaged Environment, Academic Achievement
Ratcliff, Monica Wong; Powell, Sherlyn Ezell; Cage, Bob N.; Chen, Cheng C. – Online Submission, 2011
This three-year comparative study investigated the impact of the Reading First (RF) Program on student performance as measured by statewide-mandated English Language Arts (ELA) assessment programs. A matching procedure was used where 3 RF schools and 3 non-RF schools from two rural school districts in north Louisiana were matched. The ELA test…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Rural Schools, Language Arts, Educational Assessment
Engelhard, George, Jr.; Fincher, Melissa; Domaleski, Christopher S. – Applied Measurement in Education, 2011
This study examines the effects of two test administration accommodations on the mathematics performance of students within the context of a large-scale statewide assessment. The two test administration accommodations were resource guides and calculators. A stratified random sample of schools was selected to represent the demographic…
Descriptors: Testing Accommodations, Disabilities, High Stakes Tests, Program Effectiveness
Montana Office of Public Instruction, 2010
The well-being and accomplishment of all Montana students is vital to the future success of the state. More specifically, increasing academic achievement and providing all students with a quality education will result in the opportunity for students to have more choices beyond their K-12 experience. This is what the business of education is all…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Elementary Secondary Education, American Indians, Academic Achievement