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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Educational assessments"”.
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Modeling improvement for educational assessments: comparisons and extensions
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-08-01
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Standardized educational assessments: the effects on teachers in a South Jersey elementary school
<p>The purpose of this study is to explore how standardized testing affects teaching methods. The major aspects of this qualitative study focus around two questions: How do the pressures and incentives inflicted by standardized achievement tests affect or change teacher instruction? The site for …
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Measuring Change in Jurisdiction Achievement over Time: Equating Issues in Current International Assessment Programs
Policymakers expect international educational assessments to report credible national and international changes in student achievement over time. However, international assessment projects face great methodological challenges to creating comparable scores across jurisdictions and time points, …
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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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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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Case Studies of Postsecondary College Students with Learning Disabilities
The purpose of this study was to (a) identify educational counseling interventions and accommodations that learning disabled (LD) postsecondary students received that contributed to their academic success and (b) identify barriers and issues that LD students experienced in accessing services. Ten …
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Left Out: Challenges Faced by Students with Learning Disabilities in Post-secondary Education at Ontarian Institutions
… with their respective institutions' psycho-educational assessments to receive accommodations. They experienced concerns about being labeled and stigmatized and found it necessary to conceal their learning disability, which reduced their chances of receiving academic accommodation on time. …
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An investigation of part-time and contracted school psychological service delivery in rural Virginia
… school psychologist; and 3) high quality psycho-educational assessments and recommendations. Weaknesses of the employment arrangements were: 1) high psychologist-to-student ratios; 2) lack of school psychologist time to perform non-assessment functions; and 3) lack of accessibility to the school …
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Toward Culturally Responsive and Equitable Testing: Innovative Psychometric Analyses on Contextualized Measurement and Adaptive Testing
… cultural issues are complex and challenging for educational assessments. We need assessment tests sensitive to the cultural heterogeneity of populations, and psychometric methods appropriate to address fairness and equity concerns. Built on the research of culturally responsive assessment, this …
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Sampling for network motif detection and estimation of Q-matrix and learning trajectories in DINA model
… to address open issues in network analysis and educational assessments. The first problem we investigate is network motif detection. Network motifs are substructures that appear significantly more often in the given network than in other random networks. Motif detection is crucial for …
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The measurement properties of the inventory of reading occupations: An assessment tool of children's reading occupations
This dissertation established the initial measurement properties and clinical utility of The Inventory of Reading Occupations (IRO). The IRO is a self-report and interview questionnaire that aims to measure participation in reading occupations of children from kindergarten to third grade. This …
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A Novel Method for Thematically Analyzing Student Responses to Open-ended Case Scenarios
… processing (NLP) in implementing open-ended assessments in undergraduate engineering degree programs. Engineering students need to develop an ability to exercise judgment about better and worse outcomes of their decisions. One important consideration for improving engineering students' …