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Showing 1 to 20 of 101 for “"Educational tests and measurements"”.
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The reliability and validity of the Courtis general development test
… (M.A.)--Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science. Dept. of Education, 1952
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Some effects of emphasizing the learning function of classroom achievement examinations
Thesis (D.A.G.)--Michigan State University. College of Education, 1969
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A Study of Test-Taking Skills and Achievement Scores upon Secondary Students
… level could improve their reading comprehension and vocabulary test scores on standardized tests, whether the test-taking skills program influenced these students' test scores, and how a test-taking skills program could improve students' future standardized test scores. Procedure. The …
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An Item Response Theory Approach to Causal Inference in the Presence of a Pre-intervention Assessment
… item-level information, treatment placement, and the outcome to produce estimates of each subject's ability in the chosen domain. Examining a causal inference research question in an IRT model-based framework becomes a model-based way to match subjects on estimates of their true ability. This …
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Statistical Inference for Diagnostic Classification Models
… (DCM) are an important recent development in educational and psychological testing. Instead of an overall test score, a diagnostic test provides each subject with a profile detailing the concepts and skills (often called "attributes") that he/she has mastered. Central to many DCMs is the …
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Using hierarchical linear modeling to measure school effects on the Colorado Student Assessment Program
… dissertation was to contribute a theoretically and empirically sound approach for analyzing and interpreting results from the Colorado Student Assessment Program (CSAP). This study was grounded in school effectiveness research, as the primary objective was to isolate the impact of school …
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A learning index for the Midget Wiggly Block Test for mechanical ability
1 PDF file (80 pages)
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Labels for Anchors: The Good, the Bad, and the Endpoints
… designed scales, improperly designed scales, and endpoint only scales. Two-Hundred and thirty-five participants rated the frequency of which they performed various computer activities on a survey using one of the three different designs. Contrary to expectations, internal consistency did not …
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A psychometric study of student attitudes as a measure of academic motivation
… their academic motivation through the attitudes and opinions they express. In other words, is it possible to construct a paper-and-pencil test or measuring instrument which will utilize the opinions and attitudes of students to gain a significant clue as to their motivation or drive toward …
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The construction and evaluation of a health vocabulary test for grades four, five, and six
Thesis (Ed.D.)--Boston University
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The role of parents in the continuous assessment of learners
… to ascertain the extent to which parents understand the significance of continuous assessment. The third aim was to determine whether parents' biographical factors such as gender, age, type of parent, academic qualification as well as learner's grade have any influence on parents' active role …
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Student Culture and Classroom Assessment Practices
… is more meaningful when it is relevant, social and interactive. Formative assessment has been empirically demonstrated as being an effective form of instruction and assessment for learners (Black & Wiliam, 1998a, 1998b). Since assessment orients instruction and learning, combining student …
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Conditional error variance in the WISC-IV
… scored fictitious WISC-IV Vocabulary subtests constructed to yield actual scaled scores of 4, 10, and 16. Classical measurement theory assumes error rate will be constant across the three conditions. Modern test theories (Item Response Theory), however, predict that the precision of a …
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The role of continuous assessment in primary school
… as formative assessment is to inform educators and learners about a learner's progress in orderto improve learning. The information obtained by continuous assessment should be of such a nature, and be available at a time, that willl enable the learner to grow. Effective continuous assessment …
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Factors related to teacher adoption rates and the diffusion of a one to one laptop initiative in one rural public school district
The purpose of this study was to better understand how a one to one (1:1) Chromebook classroom initiative diffused in a rural public school system. To investigate this process a unique three part mixed methods study was created. In phase one of the study, teachers using a 1:1 Chromebook classroom …
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Factors that contribute to student achievement: a case study of one high school
… that when these negative factors were identified and when students were grouped according to the factors that they possessed, differences in the success these groups achieved, with regard to ACT scores, end of course test scores, and grade point average, become readily apparent. In the sample of …
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An evaluation of teacher-constructed tests
… to present a discussion, a few examples, and an evaluation of the principal types of tests which are in the concern and domain of the classroom teacher. It is important that the discussion be concerned here with the field of modern languages, and more specifically Spanish, for that is the …
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