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Tsigilis, Nikolaos; Krousorati, Katerina; Gregoriadis, Athanasios; Grammatikopoulos, Vasilis – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2023
The Preschool Early Numeracy Skills Test--Brief Version (PENS-B) is a measure of early numeracy skills, developed and mainly used in the United States. The purpose of this study was to examine the factorial validity and measurement invariance across gender of PENS-B in the Greek educational context. PENS-B was administered to 906 preschool…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Preschool Education, Numeracy, Item Response Theory
Van Norman, Ethan R. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2023
Sophisticated analytic strategies have been proposed as viable methods to improve the quantification of student improvement and to assist educators in making treatment decisions. The performance of three categories of latent growth modeling techniques (linear, quadratic, and dual change) to capture growth in oral reading fluency in response to a…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Student Reaction, Teaching Methods, Structural Equation Models
Schneider, M. Christina; Agrimson, Jared; Veazey, Mary – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2022
This paper presents results of a score interpretation study for a computer adaptive mathematics assessment. The study purpose was to test the efficacy of item developers' alignment of items to Range Achievement-Level Descriptors (RALDs; Egan et al.) against the empirical achievement-level alignment of items to investigate the use of RALDs as the…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Mathematics Tests, Scores, Grade 3
Grammatikopoulos, Vasilis; Gregoriadis, Athanasios; Linardakis, Michalis – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2019
Self-reported measures are an easy, time-efficient, and low-cost way to collect research data compared to other assessment methods. They are, however, characterized by several limitations regarding the quality and the clarity of the data they produce, especially when they are implemented in education. The main purpose of the current study was to…
Descriptors: Measurement Techniques, Early Childhood Teachers, Social Desirability, Response Style (Tests)
West, Stephen G.; Hughes, Jan N.; Kim, Han Joe; Bauer, Shelby S. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2019
The Motivation for Educational Attainment (MEA) questionnaire, developed to assess facets related to early adolescents' motivation to complete high school, has a bifactor structure with a large general factor and three smaller orthogonal specific factors (teacher expectations, peer aspirations, value of education). This prospective validity study…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Educational Attainment, Questionnaires, Adolescent Attitudes
Camilli, Gregory; Kim, Sunhee – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2018
The trend in mathematics achievement from preschool to kindergarten is studied with a longitudinal growth item response theory model. The three measurement occasions included the spring of preschool and the spring and fall of kindergarten. The growth trend was nonlinear, with a steep drop between spring of preschool and fall of kindergarten. The…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Mathematics Education, Early Childhood Education, Mathematics Achievement