Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Subject "validity"
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(2014-04-19)Department: Special EducationDissertation under the direction of Professor Donald L. Compton In contrast to conventional static assessments measuring what students have learned, dynamic assessments (DA) measure how well students can learn; that is, ...
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(2006-07-31)Department: PsychologyThis study examined the cultural validity of the Child Behavior Checklist, by employing an Item Response Theory analysis to determine measurement inequivalence in both the items and scales for 1st grade African-American ...
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(2019-03-14)Department: Hearing and Speech SciencesThis study evaluates evidence of validity of multiple vocal measures purported to assess vocal development in young children with autism spectrum disorder in the early stages of language learning. Participants include 87 ...
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(2008-04-10)Department: Teaching and LearningMeasures that assess the quality of early childcare environments are not only useful to researchers investigating the link between quality and child outcomes but are also useful to policy makers that use such measures to ...
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(2011-12-15)Department: Special EducationFor purposes of this study, I developed an OTL measurement tool called the Instructional Learning Opportunities Guidance System (MyiLOGS) to quantify the extent to which students with disabilities have the opportunity to ...
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(2015-03-24)Department: Special EducationLexical access, the cognitive process of finding a word in one’s mental lexicon (part of the process of word recognition), is an important part of the development of receptive and expressive language. Before we can test ...