The Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing (2014) were redesigned with test developers as the intended audience. Such a target audience excludes classroom te[...]

In order to promote voluntary reading in elementary school, students need to have access to books they want to read, to believe they can read, and to be in an environment[...]

This study analyzes features of property and liability insurance guaranty funds and net assessments on a state-by-state basis over the 12-year period ending in 1990. Prev[...]

Basketry, as discussed here, includes several distinct kinds of items, including rigid and semirigid containers, or baskets proper, matting and bags.

Creativity assessment with open-ended production tasks relies heavily on scoring the quality of a subject's ideas. This creates a faceted measurement structure involving [...]

Frailty is a loss of human function in one or more physical, psychological, or social aspects and predisposes older adults to experience adverse health outcomes. In Jorda[...]

The purpose of the present study was to examine (a) the teacher-reported prevalence of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms and associated impairment [...]

The importance of fathers' involvement in their children's lives is irrefutable. Supportive, warm, and positive involvement of fathers leads to children being well-adjust[...]

Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs Standards state that counseling students must be adequately trained in suicide assessment and int[...]

Divergent thinking is central to the study of individual differences in creativity, but the traditional scoring systems (assigning points for infrequent responses and sum[...]

This article reviews recent developments in the assessment of creativity using self-report scales. We focus on four new and promising scales: the Creative Achievement Que[...]

Behavior rating scales are commonly used in the assessment of attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). However, there is little information available concerning t[...]

Students are integral to all universities, and online students have long been a growing and important population within higher education. Understanding the shifts of demo[...]

The increasing role that universities are playing in supporting national technological infrastructure and the increasing attention that governments are paying towards fis[...]

"The present study assessed the use of effective teacher behaviors in athletic training clinical education. Research involved development and use of: 1) the 20-question S[...]

A female patient with diabetes was treated in the ED after repeated episodes of hypoglycemiawithout an obvious cause. A nursing assessment revealed that she knows how she[...]

This is the final project report for US National Science Foundation Grant No. ESI-9730438. The Assessing-to-Learn (A2L) project sought to develop quality formative assess[...]

In order to have a successful library program for distance-education students, librarians must understand who their students are, as well as what their students want and [...]

Time and access to teams may be limited for sport psychology professionals, particularly those working in the college sport setting. Thus, learning how to intervene with [...]

An assessment instrument for home health nurses to use in assessing medication knowledge and practices of older adults was developed and tested on a convenience sample of[...]

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to determine the information literacy skills and needs of incoming and current transfer students. Design/methodology/approach: Three[...]

African American adolescent males are being diagnosed with externalizing behavior disorders more than any other group. However, there is a dearth of studies that addresse[...]

Introduction. Knowing the credibility of information about genetically modified food on the Internet is critical to the everyday life information seeking of consumers as [...]

Using a multitrait—multimethod approach, measures designed to assess emotional distress in medical populations were compared with depression measures standardized on heal[...]

Educational researchers have rarely addressed the problem of how to provide feedback on constructed responses. All participants (N= 76) read a story and completed short-a[...]