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Mooney, Paul; Lastrapes, Renée E. – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2020
We conducted conceptual replications for an online-administered general outcome measure known as critical content monitoring in science. Totally, 547 Grades 4 to 6 students from a rural Louisiana school district participated. Research questions addressed criterion validity, diagnostic accuracy, growth, and social validity concerns. Criterion…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Outcome Measures, Science Tests, Outcomes of Education
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Mooney, Paul; Lastrapes, Renée E. – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2019
The purpose of the research was to replicate commonality analysis for two measures: critical content monitoring and sentence verification technique. Participants were 967 fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-grade students across seven public primary schools in a southeastern U.S. district. The predictor variables were administered as benchmarks 3 times in…
Descriptors: Validity, Elementary School Students, Science Tests, Reading Comprehension
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Mooney, Paul; Lastrapes, Renée E. – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2016
The amount of research evaluating the technical merits of general outcome measures of science and social studies achievement is growing. This study targeted criterion validity for critical content monitoring. Questions addressed the concurrent criterion validity of alternate presentation formats of critical content monitoring and the measure's…
Descriptors: Outcome Measures, Academic Discourse, Benchmarking, Social Studies
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Sutton, Joe P.; Montani, Teresa O.; Frawley, Patricia A.; McElroy, Patricia A. – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2014
Growing a national certification program requires systematic research to determine its impact on certificate holders and effectiveness in serving the public. Launched in 2007, the literature to date on the efficacy and value-added effect of the Nationally Certified Educational Diagnostician (NCED) credential is virtually nonexistent. Increased…
Descriptors: Certification, Educational Diagnosis, Credentials, Professional Personnel
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Mooney, Paul; McCarter, Kevin S.; Russo, Robert J., Jr.; Blackwood, Danielle L. – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2013
The purpose of this study was to evaluate technical adequacy features of an online adaptation of vocabulary matching known as critical content monitoring. Validity and reliability studies were conducted with a sample of 106 students from one school in fifth-grade science content. Participants were administered 20 parallel forms of the general…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Elementary School Science, Vocabulary
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Mooney, Paul; McCarter, Kevin S.; Schraven, Jodie; Haydel, Beth – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2010
The purpose of the present study was to extend validity research on a content area general outcome measurement tool known as vocabulary matching. Previous research has reported moderately strong to strong correlations between the group-administered vocabulary-matching measure and a standardized assessment instrument. The present study extended the…
Descriptors: World History, Test Validity, Vocabulary, Objective Tests