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Peer reviewedTorney-Purta, Judith – Educational Researcher, 1990
Describes the following organizations concerned with international comparative educational research: (1) the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA); (2) the International Assessment of Educational Progress (IAEP); (3) the Board of International Comparative Studies in Education; and (4) the International…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Comparative Testing
Download full textEaston, Stanley E.; Ellerbruch, Lawrence W. – 1985
Data provided by the 1981-82 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) were used to study the citizenship and social studies achievement of rural 13-year-olds. The NAEP extreme rural sample included 901 13-year-olds from schools in areas with less than 10,000 people and many farmers or farm workers in residence. School size in this sample…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Adolescents, Citizenship Education, Comparative Testing
Manning, Maryann; And Others – 1985
The results of different types of reading achievement measures were compared for 58 low-income urban black third graders. Two formal tests were administered: the norm-referenced California Achievement Tests (CAT), and the criterion-referenced Alabama Basic Competency Test (ABCT). Informal measures included the Houghton-Mifflin Informal Reading…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Achievement Rating, Black Students, Cloze Procedure
