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Download full textAlghamdi, Fatimah M. A. – English Language Teaching, 2016
There is consensus among those involved in teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) in the Saudi educational context that students' achievement in language learning is below expectations. Much research has been directed towards finding the reasons for low achievement amongst learners. However, very few studies have looked at parameters of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Independent Study, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Hunter, John E. – 1983
The structure of this report is as follows: First, specific aptitude theory and general ability theory, the two theories of the relation between ability and job performance, are presented and differentiated. Second, there is a discussion of problems in the current use of the General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB) and of problems in the use of…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Career Counseling, Factor Structure, Job Performance
Frazier, William E.; And Others – 1977
The purpose of this project was to derive information relating student aptitudes to the accomplishment of specific performance objectives in an identified time frame within selected occupational training programs. Answers to the following questions were sought: What tasks within a given occupation can be performed by educationally disadvantaged…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aptitude, Aptitude Tests, Disadvantaged Youth
Swarthout, David; Synk, David J. – 1987
Meta-analytic techniques were used to analyze the effects of age, education, and work experience on General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB) validities and test scores. The sample consisted of 30,568 subjects from 143 Specific Aptitude Test Battery (SATB) validation or revalidation studies analyzed since 1972. The effect of these three variables on…
Descriptors: Adults, Age, Aptitude Tests, Correlation
Sie, Maureen A.; Johnson, Geoffrey – 1978
Eighty three applicants for empployment in a hardware supply manufacturing company participated in a study of the effects of anxiety, praise and the awareness of time remaining on employment testing. Two control groups and three testing groups--praise, time, and praise and time--were administered the General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB), a…
Descriptors: Adults, Anxiety, Aptitude Tests, Job Applicants
Kettner, Norman – 1976
Test performance of high school students on the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB), the General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB), and the Differential Aptitude Tests (DAT) was compared. The design of the study provided for information on test intercorrelations, prediction equations for the ASVAB tests from the commercial tests and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Aptitude Tests, Comparative Analysis, Equated Scores
Hunter, John E. – 1983
This paper reviews the now massive general literature showing that psychological tests are fair to minorities. This literature shows that there is no single group validity, there is no differential validity, and tests overpredict rather than underpredict minority job performance. Further evidence in regard to blacks is introduced from 51…
Descriptors: Adults, American Indians, Aptitude Tests, Asian Americans
