PURPOSE To describe the development of an educational programme for physiotherapists in the Netherlands, two toolkits of measurement instruments, and the evaluation of an implementation strategy. METHOD The study used a controlled pre- and post-measurement design. A tailored educational programme for the use of outcome measures was developed that consisted of four training sessions and two to...

Background: Handwriting problems are one of the common problems among students in the early years of education. The current study aimed to determine further validation aspects of the Persian Handwriting Assessment Tool (PHAT) in primary school-aged children.Methods: The current methodological study was conducted on 452 healthy 8-10-year-old students in Tehran, Iran, selected via random cl...

This paper introduces and empirically tests the model of tetragonal educational rationality that consists four interrelated categories: hermeneutic, emancipatory, praxeological, negational rationalities. Based on a large longitudinal study primary middle school students (total N = 1990), we investigated psychometric properties Educational Rationalities Questionnaire (ERQ) examined relevant corr...

Abstract Various stakeholders, such as policymakers and educators, require diagnostic feedback actionable test results. One particular context in which fine-grained results are of utmost importance is English language proficiency (ELP) assessments they used for critical decisions students. Diagnostic classification models (DCMs) afford finer levels to improve learning outcomes. This study part ...

This paper describes tools developed at Educational Testing Service which use statistical modeling of textual corpora to provide automated assessments of student responses. Details are given for three of these systems: Critique Writing Analysis Tools for providing feedback to students, e-rater for assigning a holistic score to student essays, and c-rater, which scores responses to content-based...