Psychoeducational Testing and the Personal Computer

1989 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 136-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Bryce Fifield
Keyword(s):  
Social Skills ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Personal Computer ◽  
Content Validity ◽  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
Academic Skills ◽  
Personal Computers ◽  
Assessment Instruments ◽  
Response Data ◽  
Use Of Assessment

The use of personal computers to aid in the administration, scoring, and interpretation of individual psychoeducational tests is growing. Currently computers are used to assist in managing assessment information, scoring and interpreting tests, and administering tests of cognitive abilities, academic skills, adaptive behaviors, and social skills. Although the content validity of assessment instruments developed for computer administration may have certain practical limitations, several useful advantages can be gained by using the computer to administer tests. Some of the advantages include improved levels of standardization in the procedures used during test administration, scoring, and interpretation; the collection of response data in real time; and the development and use of assessment models that were heretofore too complex for human presentation.

scholarly journals PENGEMBANGAN INSTRUMEN PENILAIAN KETERAMPILAN SOSIAL MAHASISWA PADA MATA KULIAH MIKRO TEACHING PAI

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 055
Author(s):  
Amaliyah Amaliyah ◽  
Ahmad Hakam ◽  
Suci Nur Pratiwi ◽  
Sari Wulandari
Keyword(s):  
Social Skills ◽  
Content Validity ◽  
Teacher Candidates ◽  
Assessment Instrument ◽  
Skills Assessment ◽  
Assessment Instruments ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Social Skills Assessment ◽  
The Social ◽  
Intraclass Correlations

The PAI micro teaching course contains competencies that enable students to empower and implement teacher competencies, including personal, social, pedagogical and professional competencies. This research focuses on developing social skills assessment instruments because: first, the values ​​of social skills are one of the main assets for Islamic Education teacher candidates to interact with the social environment, the second teacher is someone who gives empathy and cares for students. This research aims to describe the steps for developing a social skills assessment instrument and testing the content validity. The research method used the Borg and Gall development model. The process of content validity qualitatively uses peer assessments from PAI lecturers. The process of content validity quantitatively uses the Aikens Index, and  the reliability between raters uses the intraclass correlations coefficient. The results of the research describe: first the process and results of content validity qualitatively include suggestions from validators, the second is content validity quantitatively, include the validity and reliability scores.The results of the research are expected: social skills instruments are one of the tools to empower and develop social skills of PAI teacher candidates in learning activities and daily life.

Childhood Social Skills as Predictors of Middle School Academic Adjustment

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (6) ◽  
pp. 825-851 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon Emmett Hall ◽  
James Clyde DiPerna
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Social Skills ◽  
Academic Adjustment ◽  
Approaches To Learning ◽  
Academic Skills ◽  
Fifth Grade ◽  
Eighth Grade ◽  
Achievement Data ◽  
Kindergarten Class

The present study used multiple regression analyses to examine the relationships between fifth-grade social skills and eighth-grade academic achievement. Data were drawn from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study–Kindergarten Class of 1998-1999 (ECLS-K). Results indicated no relationship between positive or negative social behavior in fifth grade and academic achievement or teacher-rated academic skills in eighth grade. However, consistent with previous studies, fifth-grade approaches to learning were found to be positive predictors of both academic achievement and teacher-rated academic skills in eighth grade. In addition, these results suggest that socioeconomic status plays a significant and potentially unexplored avenue for understanding these outcomes. These results further illuminate the way behaviors in elementary school relate to academic adjustment to middle school.

The Deception Study: A Potential Paradigm for the Evaluation of Generalizability of Social Skills Training

1985 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 342-348
Author(s):  
Kevin Wheldall ◽  
Richard Alexander
Keyword(s):  
Social Skills ◽  
Classroom Management ◽  
Educational Psychology ◽  
Social Skills Training ◽  
Skills Training ◽  
Academic Skills ◽  
Evaluation Methodology ◽  
Observed Behaviour ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Contemporary Educational Psychology

Research into social skills training has, in common with much other contemporary educational psychology practice, been beset by the problem of how best to evaluate effectiveness. Alongside the movement towards more behaviourally inclined approaches has grown a dissatisfaction with the traditional methods of evaluting effectiveness. If we recognize behaviour per se as being the appropriate level for intervention, whether in relation to academic skills teaching, classroom management, social skills training or whatever, then it follows that effectiveness can only logically be assessed in terms of measurable changes in observed behaviour. Evaluation methodology has tended to lag behind interventional methodology, however, so that it has not been uncommon to see behavioural work assessed in terms of changes in attitude and/or knowledge. On occasion evaluation is not even attempted and behaviour change is assumed to generalize outside the specific confines of the intervention situation.

Between Divinity and Dullness: The Advent of Personal Computers in Italian Literature

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-42
Author(s):  
Eleonora Lima
Keyword(s):  
Personal Computer ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Italian Literature ◽  
Mass Diffusion ◽  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
Personal Computers ◽  
Cultural Impact ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Computer Culture

This article examines the cultural impact of personal computers in Italian literature in the first decade of their mass diffusion (from the mid-1980s to the second half of the 1990s) through the analysis of four texts written by some of the most respected writers of the time: Primo Levi’s article “Personal Golem” (1985), Umberto Eco’s novel Il pendolo di Foucault (1988), Francesco Leonetti’s novel Piedi in cerca di cibo (1995), and Daniele Del Giudice’s story “Evil Live” (1997). More than simply addressing the advent of personal computers, what these texts have in common is the use of religious images and metaphors in order to make sense of the new technology. This study aims at showing how this frame of reference served the four writers in expressing the contradictions inherent to the machine. Bulky and tangible because of its hardware, but animated by an elusive and mysterious software, the personal computer was perceived at the same time as a dull office appliance and a threatening virtual entity. Finally, by showing how timely and well-informed these literary works on the impact of PCs are, this article wants to make the case for considering the role of literature in shaping computer culture.

scholarly journals Are South African Speech-Language Therapists adequately equipped to assess English Additional Language (EAL) speakers who are from an indigenous linguistic and cultural background? A profile and exploration of the current situation

2016 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thandeka Mdladlo ◽  
Penelope Flack ◽  
Robin Joubert
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Cultural Background ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Assessment Instruments ◽  
Diverse Populations ◽  
Critical Factors ◽  
Material Resources ◽  
Valid Assessment ◽  
Use Of Assessment

This article presents the results of a survey conducted on Speech-Language Therapists (SLTs) regarding current practices in the assessment of English Additional Language (EAL) speakers in South Africa. It forms part of the rationale for a broader (PhD) study that critiques the use of assessment instruments on EAL speakers from an indigenous linguistic and cultural background. This article discusses an aspect of the broader research and presents the background, method, findings, discussion and implications of the survey. The results of this survey highlight the challenges of human and material resources to, and the dominance of English in, the profession in South Africa. The findings contribute to understanding critical factors for acquiring reliable and valid assessment results with diverse populations, particularly the implications from a cultural and linguistic perspective.[PDF to follow]

scholarly journals About Systems of Telecontrol – Biotechnology Control

2018 ◽  
pp. 65-67
Author(s):  
Margarita Postnova ◽  
Aleksey Sklyar
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Personal Computer ◽  
Central Office ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Production Processes ◽  
Poultry Houses ◽  
Poultry Farms ◽  
Control And Management ◽  
And Control ◽  
Positive Results

Currently, powerful modern poultry farms require built-in logistics with an optimized structure of control and management. Such a system requires formalization and ranking, responding to the tasks of specific divisions of enterprises and poultry farms in general. The analysis of the robots on the Russko-Vysotskaya site shows positive results when the Big Dutchman company introduced the BigFarmNet Manager and AMAKS systems for 11 years of operation of this complex allowing to regulate and control the production processes of egg processing, feeding, drinking, to manage the microclimate of poultry houses in real time from the central office or from a portable personal computer using the Internet.

scholarly journals The Haunted School on Horror Hill

2010 ◽  
pp. 113-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Kee ◽  
Tamara Vaughan ◽  
Shawn Graham
Keyword(s):  
Social Skills ◽  
Personal Computers ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Authoring System ◽  
Interactive Fiction ◽  
Authoring Systems ◽  
Gaming Technology ◽  
Games And Simulations ◽  
Educational Potential

As gaming technology for personal computers has advanced over the last two decades, the text-adventures that predominated in the 1980s ceased to be commercially viable. However, the easy availability of powerful authoring systems developed by enthusiasts and distributed free over the Internet has led to a renaissance in text-adventures, now called “Interactive Fiction.” The educational potential in playing these text-based games and simulations was recognised when they were first popular; the new authoring systems now allow educators to explore the educational potential of creating these works. The authors present here a case-study using the ADRIFT authoring system to create a work of interactive fiction in a split grade 4/5 class (9 and 10 year-olds) in Quebec. They find that the process of creating the game helped improve literary and social skills amongst the students.

NEAR REAL TIME PHOTOGRAMMETRY ON A PERSONAL COMPUTER

2006 ◽  
Vol 13 (75) ◽  
pp. 415-422 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Rüther ◽  
N. Parkyn
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Personal Computer
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