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Validity and Reliability of the Head Start Body Start Infant and Toddler Outdoor Play Space Assessment
Abstract Validity and Reliability of the Head Start Body Start Infant and Toddler Outdoor Play Space Assessment Samantha Dolan The quality of early care and education environments is associated with the learning and ... -
A validity and reliability study of the objective structured clinical examination
(2007)Medical education is seeing a renewed emphasis on clinical skills proficiency. Unlike medical knowledge assessment, clinical skills cannot be adequately assessed using paper-and-pencil tests. The Objective Structured ... -
The validity of student self-reports about the effectiveness of graphing calculators in an undergraduate mathematics classroom
(2005)Nineteen undergraduate mathematic students from three Pre-Calculus classes were observed during class meetings, in lab sessions, and in one-on-one interviews. The study used a qualitative methodology to consider the validity ... -
Value, form and content of a small college athletic budget
(1939)Always live within your income even if you have to borrow money to do it. This advice, which the late Francis Bret Harte facetiously gave to mankind, epitomized the general attitude of indifference toward budgeting a quarter ... -
VOICES: Case Study of a Faculty Development Program in Multicultural Education at an AANAPISI 2-Year College
As higher education institutions continue to focus more on equity and allocating resources to serve historically marginalized populations, community colleges in particular have benefited from programs such as the federal ... -
Walking on Egg Shells: Colorblind Ideology and Race Talk in Teacher Education
ABSTRACT Background/Context: Teacher education students in the U.S., regardless of their personal beliefs, knowledge, and levels of awareness, are racially positioned to participate in an education system and society ... -
Walking out of the Mountain: Cultural Identification and Education of Rural Migrant Muslim Students in Northwest China
The economic boom in China has brought major changes in its geographical and cultural landscapes. Significant among these is the magnitude and directionality of demographic mobility. It is estimated that 170-180 million ... -
Warriors of Lyari: Karachi's Hip Hop Movement and its Impact on Society and Education
Globalization, social media, and transnational trends have facilitated the transcension of Hip Hop culture across borders. In Pakistan, the movement gained momentum in Lyari, a neighbourhood from Karachi, Pakistan which ... -
"We ain't all the same!": A quantitative approach to examine the factors associated with African Immigrant and Black American ninth grade school success
(2014-02-24)High school is a time of transition for youth of all ethnic groups, but it is a particularly problematic time for African American youth in the United States. While many studies have evaluated the sense of school belonging ... -
What Are You Driving At?: How School Leaders Use Data When Making School-level Decisions About Instructional Improvement
(2014-02-24)Increasingly, educational policies include mandates for school leaders to use data to "drive" their school-level decisions about instructional improvement. Extant research suggests that school leaders are trying to use ... -
What Counts as Legitimate Participation? Embracing Students' Funds of Knowledge in Philosophical Inquiry
While ample theoretical and empirical work has been done around the aims, methods, and outcomes of Philosophy for Children (P4C), few interpretive case studies currently give voice to students’ lived experiences and ways ... -
What do We Know about Context: An Integrated Analysis of Context Characteristics of Science Assessment Items
Prior studies have widely documented the impact of characteristics of contextualized items on students’ test performance. However, the role of individual context characteristics on assessment results is not fully understood. ... -
What Happened to the Free Schools?: The Free Schools Movement in the United States 1967-1972
What happened to the Free Schools movement in the United States, and why has it been so little examined by historians of education? What legacies were left by these bold experiments in education? The Free Schools movement ... -
What is the Impact of the Underserved Pathway program on Entering an Underserved Family Medicine Residency? A Comparison of Three Approaches for Estimating the Average Treatment Effect
Introduction: It is well known that more primary care physicians are needed in underserved areas of the U.S. While prior research has shown that medical student experiences in underserved settings helps to increase the ... -
What's so special about intercollegiate special admits? Implications for Academic Support Programming
(2012-09-13)The purpose of this case study is to gain insight into the academic, athletic and social experiences of specially admitted student-athletes in order to better understand what contributes to their lower academic performance ... -
What’s Happening Here? A Literature Review and Autoethnography Exploring the Intersection Between US Higher Education Reform, Management Consulting Firms, and Racial Equity and Justice Through a Black Feminist Lens
Public higher education institutions across the US interested in advancing equity on their campus are partnering with management consulting firms to implement institutional reform. Equity-focused scholars and practitioners ... -
What’s in a Rating? Teacher Evaluations of Students’ Social Emotional Competency: A Mixed Methods Study
University of Washington Abstract What’s in a Rating? Teacher Evaluations of Students’ Social Emotional Competency: A Mixed Methods Study Michelle Alissandra Proulx Chairperson of the Supervisory Committee Professor Leslie ... -
When Boys Become Men: Chicano/Latino Middle School Students and their Identities.
This ethnographic study explores the educational experiences of Chicano/Latino Middle School Males and their emerging racial, ethnic, and gender identities. This study employed Racial/Ethnic Identity Development Theory and ... -
When can Multidimensional Item Response Theory (MIRT) Models be a Solution for Differential Item Functioning (DIF)? A Monte Carlo Simulation Study
The present study was designed to examine whether multidimensional item response theory (MIRT) models might be useful in controlling for differential item functioning (DIF) when estimating primary ability, or whether ... -
When principals lead for improved teaching: The importance principal-teacher interactions
Policymakers call on principals to support teachers’ improvement in their instructional practice. However, research on principals’ instructional leadership practice describe how principals’ actions focus on instruction and ...