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Download full textDickinson, Aileen C.; Friedman, Myles I.; Hatch, Charles W.; Jacobs, Jacqueline E.; Nickerson, Amanda B.; Schnepel, Katherine C. – 2002
This Handbook is intended to help educators understand testing, interpret test results, and defend the selection, construction, and use of tests. The Handbook, tailored to the needs of educators, analyzes only tests used by educators. The Handbook contains more than 100 reviews of tests used routinely to make education decisions and assess skills…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Admission (School), Decision Making, Educational Testing
Johnston, Peter – 1983
To show the difficulty of eliminating test bias and to develop a methodology for distinguishing between the effects of prior knowledge and of skill development on reading comprehension, 207 eighth grade students from rural and urban areas were administered an 18-question reading comprehension test. Quantitative and qualitative effects of prior…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 8, Prior Learning, Reading Comprehension
Bagin, Carolyn Boccella – 1989
This digest explains basic elements of standardized tests in order to help teachers in making students feel comfortable about taking such tests. Usually created by commercial publishers, standardized tests are designed to provide a common measure of students' performance. They help compare an individual student's performance with the performance…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, High School Students, High Schools
Jacobs, Lucy Cheser; Chase, Clinton I. – 1992
This book offers specific how-to advice to college faculty on every stage of the testing process, including planning the test and classifying objectives to be measured, ensuring the validity and reliability of the test, and grading in such a way as to arrive at fair grades based on relevant data. The book examines the strengths and weaknesses of…
Descriptors: Cheating, College Faculty, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Testing
Beard, John D., Ed.; McNabb, Scott E., Ed. – 1985
Intended for teachers, this collection of articles on testing in the English language arts contains the following titles: "What Do Test Scores 'Really' Mean in Educational Policy?" by George F. Madaus; "Testing and Literacy: A Contradiction in Terms?" by Marilyn Wilson; "Throwing in the TOWL," by Mary Jane Curry; "Taking the Authority Figure Out…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, English Instruction, English (Second Language), Language Arts
Gronlund, Norman E. – 1998
This book is a practical guide for assessing the intended learning outcomes of classroom instruction. It is based on the premise that assessment of student achievement plays a vital role in instruction and that the main goal of assessment is to improve learning. The new title of this sixth edition reflects a shift from major concern with classroom…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Educational Assessment, Educational Testing
Rubadeau, Duane O.; And Others – 1990
Designed to assist community college practitioners in understanding and utilizing standardized test results for making instructional, guidance, and administrative decisions, this three-part guidebook examines the uses of test results, the evaluation of standardized tests, and procedures for interpreting test scores. Section I discusses the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Standardized Tests
