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Showing 1 to 20 of 1776 for “"Educational assessment"”.
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Application of ordered latent class regression model in educational assessment
… of an ordered latent class regression model in educational assessment using data from Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS). The benefit of this model is that item analysis and group comparisons can be done simultaneously in one model. The model is fitted by maximum …
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Affective Reactions and Psychosocial Functioning in the Course of Psycho-Educational Assessment
… for many different clinical and psycho-educational purposes. Very little research has attempted to investigate children's responses to the experience of having intellectual and achievement tests administered. The goal of the current research was to explore the effect a psycho-educational …
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Instructional Implications of the Michigan Educational Assessment Program as an Accountability Instrument
… state standardized reading test, the Michigan Educational Assessment Program (MEAP). Although state officials claim the MEAP can inform instruction, no data are regularly collected to describe reading instructional practices or the relationship between current practices and the percentage of …
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The rationality of judgement: comparative perspectives on the social role of educational assessment
… and implications of the elaborate apparatus of assessment procedures which characterises educational provision in advanced industrial societies. The analysis is divided into two parts. Part I which is entitled 'Sociological Perspectives' is concerned with establishing the conceptual framework …
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The development and evaluation of software to foster professional development in educational assessment
… area of teaching to improve. The literature on educational assessment indicated that teachers lack competence at effective assessment, particularly in the area of multiple-choice question generation. It is likely that improvement in this area would yield large gains in educational achievement by …
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An Investigation of Answer Changing on a Large-Scale Computer-Based Educational Assessment
Answer changing on tests has been studied for decades, however more recently answer-changing analysis has risen as an approach for exploring potential test fraud on high-stakes achievement tests. The purpose of this study was to document answer-changing patterns of students grades 3-11 on …
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Compared to What? The Effectiveness of Synthetic Control Methods for Causal Inference in Educational Assessment
… that have begun to find application in educational research as well. Synthetic controls create an aggregate-level, time-series comparison for a single treated unit of interest for causal inference with observational data. However, the strict statistical assumptions associated with …
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Perceptions of eighth-grade mathematics teachers of the impact of the Maine Educational Assessment on instructional practices
… concerning their classroom instructional and assessment practices and the influence on their students' scores in the MEA tests and (b) to determine if there is a relationship between community social/economic levels and student achievement on the Maine Educational Assessment (MEA) mathematics …
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The relationship between music and visual arts formal study and academic achievement on the eighth-grade Louisiana Educational Assessment Program (LEAP) test
… education students who took the statewide assessment spring 2008 in public schools. Students enrolled in music had significantly higher mean scores than those not enrolled in music where (p < .001). Music enrollment was a positive predictor of academic achievement. Results for visual arts …
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Statistical analysis of outcomes in an educational assessment: impact of the Alice curriculum on male and female performances and attitudes at community colleges, A
Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-114).
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An Exploratory Study of Nursing Personnnel Needs in Seventh-day Adventist Hospitals in the Continental United States with a View to Educational Assessment and Planning
<p>Problem. The purpose of this study was to collect, organize, and analyze data from Seventh-day Adventist hospitals, nurses, SDA church leadership, and general statistics to provide nursing-personnel resource information for Adventist hospital and nursing education planning.</p> <p>Some of the …
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An examination of the relationship between servant-leadership behavior of the elementary school principal, school climate and student achievement as measured by the 4th grade Mathematics and Reading Michigan Educational Assessment Program
<p>The purpose of this study was to determine what relationship exists between the servant-leadership behavior of the elementary school principal, school climate, and student achievement. Data were collected through the use of two survey instruments. The (Revised) Servant-Leadership Profile: 360 …
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The relationship between elementary school foreign language study in grades three through five and academic achievement on the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITBS) and the fourth-grade Louisiana Educational Assessment Program for the 21st Century (LEAP 21) Test
The passage of the federal educational legislation, No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, established foreign languages as a core curricular content area. Nonetheless, educational policy makers at the state and local levels often opt to allocate greater resources and give instructional priority to …
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LOOKING FOR A FAIRER ASSESSMENT OF CHILDREN'S LEARNING DEVELOPMENT AND ATTAINMENT IN THE INFANT YEARS: AN EDUCATIONAL ACTION RESEARCH CASE STUDY
… researcher's journey into the heart of a living educational assessment landscape. She embarks on this journey to search for a fairer assessment of young children's learning, development and attainment. It is a journey that forces her to question everything about the professional world in which …
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A Survey of Teaming and Assessment Practices of Practitioners Trained in Transdisciplinary Play-Based Assessment
… students in transdisciplinary play based assessment from the disciplines of psychology, speech/language pathology, and Interdisciplinary Early Childhood Education (IECE) through a series of coursework, seminars and an internship. Transdisciplinary play based assessment (TPBA) is …
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Graphical models for student knowledge: Networks, parameters, and item selection
Educational policy-makers are placing increasing emphasis on testing. All this energy devoted to standardized educational assessment presents a great opportunity for improving instructional decision-making, if testing programs can provide instructionally meaningful results quickly. Traditional …
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Predictive Modeling of Uniform Differential Item Functioning Preservation Likelihoods After Applying Disclosure Avoidance Techniques to Protect Privacy
… continues to grow. Administrators of large-scale educational assessment should provide examinee microdata in addition to publishing assessment reports. Disclosure avoidance methods are applied to the data to protect examinee privacy before doing so, while attempting to preserve as many item …
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The Value of Value-Added: Science, Technology, and Policy in Educational Evaluation
… scores. One evaluative technique, value-added assessment (VAA), has been given particular attention. This research presents a comprehensive study of the theoretical, technical, historical and political dimensions VAA. Theoretically, the assumptions that underlie value-added diverge …
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The Relationship Between Formal Education In Arabic And Students'attitudes Towards Langauges And English And Mathematic Proficiency
… survey, (3) Math component of the Michigan Educational Assessment program (MEAP), and (4) scores on the English Language Proficiency Assessment (ELPA).</p> <p>Descriptive analyses were used to summarize, classify and simplify the data collected from the two surveys. Inferential analyses, on …
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