TY - JOUR
T1 - Development of curriculum-based measurements in mathematical computations for Arab-speaking fourth grade students
AU - Al-Shehhi, Safiya Abdullah
AU - Emam, Mahmoud Mohamed
AU - Al-Otaiba, Stephanie
AU - Ibrahim, Mahmoud Mohamed
AU - Al-Mehrizi, Rashid
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This article was funded by His Majesty’s Research Trust Fund (HMRTF) at Sultan Qaboos University [grant number SR/EDU/PSYC/12 /01].
Funding Information:
The authors, therefore, acknowledge with thanks the HMRTF for technical and financial support.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2018.
PY - 2019/4/1
Y1 - 2019/4/1
N2 - In the Arab region, several assessments are available to evaluate student skills in mathematical computations. However, none of them uses formative evaluation to guide universal screening of struggling learners or students with learning disability (LD). The current study aimed to develop mathematical computation curriculum-based measurement (MC-CBM) for Arab speaking fourth grade students, examine its psychometric properties, test its adequacy for use in an Arab context, namely Oman, determine an adequate time for its administration, and develop performance benchmarks. MC-CBM were administered to 528 fourth grade students. Results indicated that the developed measures were adequate for use in the Arab context. Received operation characteristic (ROC) curve indicated good specificity and sensitivity estimates for the MC-CBM. Performance benchmarks were obtained using the 25th and 75th percentiles. Implications are discussed from a contextual perspective.
AB - In the Arab region, several assessments are available to evaluate student skills in mathematical computations. However, none of them uses formative evaluation to guide universal screening of struggling learners or students with learning disability (LD). The current study aimed to develop mathematical computation curriculum-based measurement (MC-CBM) for Arab speaking fourth grade students, examine its psychometric properties, test its adequacy for use in an Arab context, namely Oman, determine an adequate time for its administration, and develop performance benchmarks. MC-CBM were administered to 528 fourth grade students. Results indicated that the developed measures were adequate for use in the Arab context. Received operation characteristic (ROC) curve indicated good specificity and sensitivity estimates for the MC-CBM. Performance benchmarks were obtained using the 25th and 75th percentiles. Implications are discussed from a contextual perspective.
KW - Arabic
KW - Oman
KW - curriculum-based measurement
KW - mathematics
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U2 - 10.1177/0143034318817078
DO - 10.1177/0143034318817078
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85058953431
SN - 0143-0343
VL - 40
SP - 145
EP - 167
JO - School Psychology International
JF - School Psychology International
IS - 2
ER -