Recently added articles from The Journal of Experimental Education:
Grading scheme, test difficulty, and the immediate feedback assessment technique.(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; ... ABSTRACT. The authors examined how the grading scheme affects learning and students' reactions to the Immediate Feedback Assessment Technique (IFAT), an answer form providing immediate feedback on multiple-choice questions. Undergraduate students (N = 141) took a general-knowledge ...
Improving students' evaluation of informal arguments.(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; ... ABSTRACT. Evaluating the structural quality of arguments is a skill that is important to students' ability to comprehend the arguments of others and produce their own. The authors examined college and high school students' ability to evaluate the quality of 2-clause (claim-reason) ...
Investigating transactions among motives, emotional regulation related to testing, and test emotions.(Report)
Jun 22, 2009; ... ABSTRACT. The authors examined the relationships among achievement motives, emotional regulation, and emotions. They collected data from 425 college undergraduates (110 men, 315 women) and used several scales, including the Achievement Motives Scales (K. Hagtvet & L. Zou, 2000), the ...
Walking on the borders: a measure of epistemic cognition in history.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... ABSTRACT. The authors build on literature related to the development of epistemic cognition, research on historical thinking, and studies of individuals' epistemic beliefs. They designed this study to explore, develop, and test a measure of epistemic cognition in history. They administered ...
Power of models in longitudinal study: findings from a full-crossed simulation design.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... ABSTRACT. Because the power properties of traditional repeated measures and hierarchical multivariate linear models have not been clearly determined in the balanced design for longitudinal studies in the literature, the authors present a power comparison study of traditional repeated ...
The performance of multilevel growth curve models under an autoregressive moving average process.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... ABSTRACT. The authors examined the robustness of multilevel linear growth curve modeling to misspecification of an autoregressive moving average process. As previous research has shown (J. Ferron, R. Dailey, & Q. Yi, 2002; O. Kwok, S. G. West, & S. B. Green, 2007; S. Sivo, X. Fan, & L ....
On social achievement goals: their relations with peer acceptance, classroom belongingness, and perceptions of loneliness.(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... ABSTRACT. The authors investigated the relation between social achievement goals (A. M. Ryan & S. S. Shim, 2006) and aspects of students' socioemotional adjustment in a sample of elementary school students. Structural equation modeling analyses revealed that after controlling for levels of ...
What do students think about when evaluating their classroom's mastery goal structure? An examination of young adolescents' explanations.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT. In this article, the authors investigated the teacher practices that middle school students attend to when appraising their classroom's mastery goal structure. After students rated each item on the mastery goal structure scale, they wrote what their teacher did or said that led ...
Understanding young adolescents' optimal experiences in academic settings.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT. Cognitive, motivational, and affective characteristics define classroom contexts, yet flow theory (e.g., M. Csikszentmihalyi, 1975) is 1 of only a few theoretical perspectives that interrelate these characteristics. The authors adapted constructs and methods from flow theory to ...
Application of unidimensional item response models to tests with items sensitive to secondary dimensions.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT. In this research, the author addresses whether the application of unidimensional item response models provides valid interpretation of test results when administering items sensitive to multiple latent dimensions. Overall, the present study found that unidimensional models are ...
Sample size determination for one- and two-sample trimmed mean tests.(Report)
Jan 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT. Formulas to determine the necessary sample sizes for parametric tests of group comparisons are available from several sources and appropriate when population distributions are normal. However, in the context of nonnormal population distributions, researchers recommend Yuen's ...
A computer-based approach to fostering motivation and self-regulated learning.(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... ABSTRACT. The authors designed a computer-based approach to enhance motivation and self-regulated learning. Participants of the quasi-experimental study were 6th-grade students (N = 151) who worked with a mathematics-learning software program during regular classroom instruction. In the ...
Beginning English teacher attrition, mobility, and retention.(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... ABSTRACT. Although much research on teacher attrition and mobility exists, few researchers have addressed English teachers specifically. The present authors, using the 1999-2000 Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) and the Teacher Follow-Up Survey (TFS; National Center for Education ...
Evaluating the state of a field: effect size reporting in gifted education.(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... ABSTRACT. The authors examined the use of effect sizes across an entire field, satisfying a goal J. Cohen (1997) suggested. They analyzed the extent to which researchers had reported effect sizes in the 5 major journals on gifted education between 1996 and 2005 and compiled data on the ...
On the use of covariates in bridging single- and multiple-race categories.(Report)
Sep 22, 2008; ... ABSTRACT. Federal standards established in 1997 allow respondents to select multiple-race categories. These new standards changed the single-race subgroup definitions that the government has required since 1977. Meta-analysis, research on long-term assessment trends, and other research ...
University belonging, friendship quality, and psychological adjustment during the transition to college.(Report)
Jun 22, 2008; ... ABSTRACT. The authors collected questionnaire data from college students (N = 79) at 2 time points during their freshman year to examine how changes in a sense of university belonging, quality of friendships, and psychological adjustment were associated. Students who had positive changes ...
Dyad composition effects on cognitive elaboration and student achievement.(Report)
Jun 22, 2008; ... ABSTRACT. The authors addressed the following research question: Does composition of dyads in terms of gender and ability affect student participation, the level of cognitive elaborations during a collaborative activity, and individual student achievement? The study involved 24 6th-grade ...
Equating between linguistically different tests: consequences for assessment.(Report)
Jun 22, 2008; ... ABSTRACT. The comparison of scores from linguistically different tests is a twofold matter: the adaptation of tests and the comparison of scores. These 2 aspects of measurement invariance intersect at the need to guarantee the psychometric equivalence between the original and adapted ...
Deficiencies of reporting in meta-analyses and some remedies.(Report)
Jun 22, 2008; ... ABSTRACT. There is general agreement that meta-analysis is an important tool for synthesizing study results in quantitative educational research. Yet, a shared feature of many meta-analyses is a failure to report sufficient information for readers to fully judge the reported findings, such ...
Subset testing: prevalence and implications for study behaviors.(Report)
Mar 22, 2008; ... ABSTRACT. In 3 studies, the authors examined the prevalence and effects of a testing strategy whereby they gave a set of items to participants in advance and subsequently tested them on a portion of those items (i.e., subset testing). In a survey of university instructors, Study 1 showed ...