Presented are the results of a 2-year study on achievement patterns in 917 educable mentally retarded (EMR) children (8.0 to 19.11 years old) in the district run classes throughout Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Described are the student participants, as well as the teachers and districts from which they came. Also discussed are the test devices…

Reported are four studies resulting from achievement testing activities from 1971 to 1973 with approximately 17,000 hearing impaired students from under 6 to over 21 years of age. The first study reports the relationships between selected achievement test scores (Paragraph Meaning and Arithmetic Computation subtests) and the following variables:…

Item analysis was made of results of a national achievement testing program of nearly 19,000 primary and secondary school hearing impaired students enrolled in special educational programs in the Spring of 1971. Testing instrument was the Stanford Achievement Test Series (Form W). Individual test items or descriptions of the academic information…

An item analysis of the Stanford Achievement Test performance of about 12,000 students in schools and classes for the hearing impaired is presented. Tables show the percentage of correct answers to each question, as well as a summary of the responses for each sub-test and major categories within some sub-tests. Because the test was developed for…

The objectives of the annual survey of hearing impaired children and youth which are presented are to collect, process, and disseminate statistical information on characteristics of all hearing impaired individuals through college age. One aspect of this work is described through results of the administration of the Stanford Achievement Tests…