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Download full textMilazzo, Patricia; Buchanan, Aaron – 1982
Standardized achievement tests and instructional accomplishment inventories involve different methodologies and cannot be equated by using conventional psychometric methods. Instructional accomplishment inventories are descriptive, and are designed to reflect the scope, sequence, and skills and emphasis in a particular instructional program.…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Criterion Referenced Tests, Elementary Education, Equated Scores
Beal, Judy – Schools in the Middle, 1997
Describes a system employed by a middle school to improve performance scores on the Comprehensive Testing of Basic Skills (CTBS), through aggressive attitude changes, to ensure fiscal and other benefits. Notes characteristics of the approach, including realistic goals, student involvement, student responsibility, community involvement, student…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Achievement Tests, Attitude Change, Educational Testing
