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Direct linkAyfer Sayin; Mark Gierl – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2024
The purpose of this study is to introduce and evaluate a method for generating reading comprehension items using template-based automatic item generation. To begin, we describe a new model for generating reading comprehension items called the text analysis cognitive model assessing inferential skills across different reading passages. Next, the…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Reading Comprehension, Item Analysis, Man Machine Systems
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
Polikoff, Morgan S.; Gasparian, Hovanes; Korn, Shira; Gamboa, Martin; Porter, Andrew C.; Smith, Toni; Garet, Michael S. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2020
As the standards movement continues into its third decade, there remains a need for alignment methodologies that can be broadly applied to study instruction and policy. This article reports on a series of development efforts meant to revise the Surveys of Enacted Curriculum (SEC) surveys and methods to study the implementation of new college- and…
Descriptors: Alignment (Education), Surveys, College Readiness, Career Readiness
Rios, Joseph A.; Ihlenfeldt, Samuel D.; Chavez, Carlos – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2020
The objectives of this two-part study were to: (a) investigate English learner (EL) accommodation practices on state accountability assessments of reading/English language arts and mathematics in grades 3-8, and (b) conduct a meta-analysis of EL accommodation effectiveness on improving test performance. Across all distinct testing programs, we…
Descriptors: Testing Accommodations, English Language Learners, Program Effectiveness, Evidence Based Practice
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
