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Reliability Generalization of the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire: A Meta-Analytic View of Reliability Estimates

Description: This article uses a reliability generalization meta-analysis to explore the relationship between study factors and levels of alpha reliability for the 15 subscales of the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ).
Date: September 26, 2018
Creator: Holland, David F.; Kraha, Amanda; Zientek, Linda Reichwein; Nimon, Kim F.; Fulmore, Julia A.; Johnson, Ursula Y. et al.
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Examining physical activity and quality of life in adults with autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability

Description: Article discusses how quality of life and physical activity relate to each other in adults with autism and intellectual disabilities. The authors use Fitbit activity trackers to find connections between physical activity and quality of life of their sample group of autistic adults.
Date: September 13, 2021
Creator: Tomaszewski, Brianne; Savage, Melissa N. & Hume, Kara
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Longitudinal Effects of Motivation and Physical Activity on Depressive Symptoms among College Students

Description: This article is guided by Lubans et al.'s conceptual framework and examines the longitudinal relationships of physical activity (PA) motivation with leisure-time PA and depressive symptoms among college students over one academic year. The findings suggest sex-specified motivational intervention strategies and PA promotion programs/opportunities are needed to reduce depression symptoms among college students over time.
Date: May 12, 2021
Creator: Zhang, Jie; Gu, Xiangli; Zhang, Xiaoxia; Lee, Jihye; Chang, Mei & Zhang, Tao
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Challenges in measuring ACGME competencies: considerations for milestones

Description: This article extends previous studies of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)'s measure of residents' training progress to examine the validity of ACGME International competency measures for an international setting across emergency medicine (EM) and neurology, and across evaluators.
Date: September 28, 2018
Creator: Natesan, Prathiba; Batley, Nicholas J.; Bakhti, Rinad & El-Doueihi, Philippe Z.
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Measuring Success: Integrating Number Lines Into Measurement Instruction for Students With Learning Disabilities

Description: Article asserts that number lines can benefit students in learning an array of mathematical concepts. This article demonstrates the versatility of integrating number lines into mathematical interventions involving measurement concepts for students with learning disabilities in mathematics.
Date: August 2, 2023
Creator: Gersib, Jenna A.; Rojo, Megan; Ghafaghazi, Shadi; Uy, Jasmine & Doabler, Christian T.
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Evidence-Based Practices for Children, Youth, and Young Adults with Autism: Third Generation Review

Description: This article is a systematic review describing a set of practices that have evidence of positive effects with autistic children and youth. It is the third iteration of a review of the intervention literature (Odom et al. in J Autism Dev Disorders 40(4):425–436, 2010a; Prevent School Fail 54(4):275–282, 2010b; Wong et al. in https://autismpdc.fpg.unc.edu/sites/autismpdc.fpg.unc.edu/files/imce/documents/2014-EBP-Report.pdf; J Autism Dev Disorders 45(7):1951–1966, 2015), extending coverage to arti… more
Date: January 15, 2021
Creator: Hume, Kara; Steinbrenner, Jessica R.; Odom, Samuel L.; Morin, Kristi L.; Nowell, Sallie W.; Tomaszewski, Brianne et al.
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Measuring flexibility: A text-mining approach

Description: Article describes how, in creativity research, ideational flexibility, the ability to generate ideas by shifting between concepts, has long been the focus of investigation. Here, the authors build from extant research to theoretically posit, and then empirically validate, a text-mining based method for measuring flexibility in verbal divergent thinking (DT) responses.
Date: January 18, 2023
Creator: Grajzel, Katalin; Acar, Selcuk; Dumas, Denis; Organisciak, Peter & Berthiaume, Kelly
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What Makes Children's Responses to Creativity Assessments Difficult to Judge Reliably?

Description: Article describes how open-ended verbal creativity assessments are commonly administered in psychological research and in educational practice to elementary-aged children. Authors modeled the predictors of inter-rater disagreement in a large (i.e., 387 elementary school students and 10,449 individual item responses) dataset of children's creativity assessment responses.
Date: May 26, 2023
Creator: Dumas, Denis; Acar, Selcuk; Berthiaume, Kelly; Organisciak, Peter; Eby, David; Grajzel, Katalin et al.
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The Concise Health Risk Tracking - Self-Report (CHRT-SR)—A measure of suicidal risk: Performance in adolescent outpatients

Description: Article describes how the Concise Health Risk Tracking Self-Report (CHRT-SR) assesses the risk of suicidal behavior. The authors report its psychometric properties in a representative sample of adolescent outpatients.
Date: October 10, 2022
Creator: Nandy, Karabi; Rush, John A.; Carmody, Thomas J.; Kulikova, Alexandra; Mayes, Taryn L.; Emslie, Graham et al.
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Birth Order and Divergent Thinking: A Meta-Analysis

Description: This article is a meta-analysis examining the association of birth order and divergent thinking (DT). The main purpose was to examine how ordinal position (only, first, middle, or last-born) is related to creativity. Results showed that first-borns had higher DT scores than later-born children.
Date: April 20, 2021
Creator: Abdulla Alabbasi, Ahmed M.; Tadik, Harun; Acar, Selcuk & Runco, Mark A.

Addressing Disproportionality in Special Education Through a Social Justice Framework

Description: Presentation discussing the disproportionality in special education programs, which is the over or under representation of a specific group or population identified with a disability or placed in special education in comparison to the actual number of students, and it provides some actionable solutions. It was presented at the 11th annual Jalisco-Texas Conference which was held virtually on March 30-31, 2023.
Date: March 30, 2023
Creator: Barrio, Brenda L.
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Social Emotional Learning Competencies in Belize Children: Psychometric Validation Through Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling

Description: Article presents a study that demonstrates the application of Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling to existing measures through the investigation of structural validity and generalizability of the Social-Emotional and Character Development Scale with a large sample of children from schools in Belize. Using this newer factor analytic procedure, original factors are reconceptualized to better situate the Social Emotional Character Development Scales into the larger body of Social-Emotional Le… more
Date: February 9, 2022
Creator: Hinerman, Krystal M.; Hull, Darrell M.; Näslund-Hadley, Emma I. & Rafe, Mehri Mirzaei
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