validity

The search for validity evidence for instruments in statistics education: preliminary findings
Interpreting results from instruments requires appropriate validity evidence. However, evolution in the fields of educational …
Sep 2, 2021 — Virtual (IASE Satellite 2021)
Douglas Whitaker, Charlotte Bolch, Leigh Harrell-Williams, Stephanie Casey, Corinne Huggins-Manley, Christopher Engledowl, Hartono Tjoe
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The search for validity evidence for instruments in statistics education: preliminary findings
Expanding Opportunities: Facilitating Discussions to Improve Measurement Practices in Statistics Education Research
It has long been recognized that applied measurement in social science research is widely misunderstood and that measurement theory, …
Jun 30, 2021 — Virtual (USCOTS 2021)
Leigh Harrell-Williams, Corinne Manley, Hartono Tjoe, Stephanie Casey, Christopher Engledowl, Douglas Whitaker, Charlotte Bolch
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Expanding Opportunities: Facilitating Discussions to Improve Measurement Practices in Statistics Education Research
Epistemic and mathematical beliefs of exemplary statistics teachers
Education research has established that teachers' beliefs matter because they can affect classroom practices and student outcomes, and …
Douglas Whitaker
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Epistemic and mathematical beliefs of exemplary statistics teachers
Challenges to using and interpreting the SATS-36 instrument: Do you like statistics? Do your students like statistics? How do you know?
The Survey of Attitudes Toward Statistics (SATS-36; Schau, 2003) is the most widely-used instrument for measuring attitude-related …
May 18, 2019 — State College, Pennsylvania (USCOTS 2019)
Douglas Whitaker, Alana Unfried, Marjorie Bond
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Challenges to using and interpreting the SATS-36 instrument: Do you like statistics? Do your students like statistics? How do you know?
Design and validation arguments for the Student Survey of Motivational Attitudes toward Statistics (S-SOMAS) instrument
This chapter describes the development plan for a new survey designed to measure students’ attitudes toward statistics aligned with …
Douglas Whitaker, Alana Unfried, Marjorie Bond
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Design and validation arguments for the Student Survey of Motivational Attitudes toward Statistics (S-SOMAS) instrument
Evaluating validity evidence for instruments in statistics education

This Breakout Session will focus on evaluating validity evidence supporting the interpretation of scores from instruments. While …
May 17, 2019 — May 18, 2019 State College, Pennsylvania (USCOTS 2019)
Leigh Harrell-Williams, Douglas Whitaker
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Evaluating validity evidence for instruments in statistics education
Validity Evidence Claims and Plan for the SOMAS Instruments
The Surveys Of Motivational Attitudes towards Statistics (SOMAS) is a family of instruments being developed to measure what has …
Jul 9, 2018 — Kyoto, Japan (ICOTS 10)
Douglas Whitaker
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Validity Evidence Claims and Plan for the SOMAS Instruments
Development and use of embedded signature assessments for continuous improvement and assessment
This session will focus on the current topic of planning, developing, and implementing embedded signature assessments (ESAs) within …
Mar 1, 2018 — Baltimore, Maryland (AACTE 2018)
Kevin Mason, Debbie Stanislawski, Douglas Whitaker
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Development and use of embedded signature assessments for continuous improvement and assessment
Establishing the validity of the LOCUS assessments through an evidenced-centered design approach
This paper presents the systematic process utilized by the Levels of Conceptual Understanding in Statistics (LOCUS) …
Tim Jacobbe, Catherine Case, Douglas Whitaker, Steven Foti
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Establishing the validity of the LOCUS assessments through an evidenced-centered design approach
The evolution of items from the LOCUS assessment
The goal for this project is to show the evolution of several items from the Levels of Conceptual Understanding in Statistics (LOCUS) …
Apr 18, 2013 — Gainesville, Florida (SAGE Research Symposium 2013)
Douglas Whitaker
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The evolution of items from the LOCUS assessment