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Brown, Kevin – CEA Forum, 2015
In this article, the author describes his project to take every standardized exam English majors students take. During the summer and fall semesters of 2012, the author signed up for and took the GRE General Test, the Praxis Content Area Exam (English Language, Literature, and Composition: Content Knowledge), the Senior Major Field Tests in…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College English, Test Preparation, Standardized Tests
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Zumbo, Bruno D. – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2007
The purpose of this article is to reflect on the state of the theorizing and praxis of DIF in general: where it has been; where it is now; and where I think it is, and should, be going. Along the way the major trends in the differential item functioning (DIF) literature are summarized and integrated providing some organizing principles that allow…
Descriptors: Test Bias, Evaluation Research, Research Methodology, Regression (Statistics)
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Bennett, Christine I.; McWhorter, Lynn M.; Kuykendall, John A. – American Educational Research Journal, 2006
This longitudinal study examined the PRAXIS I experiences of African American and Latino undergraduates seeking admission into teacher education at a Big Ten university. Participants were 44 students selected from a larger sample enrolled in a recruitment and support program aimed at members of underrepresented minority groups. The theoretical…
Descriptors: African American Students, Hispanic American Students, Student Attitudes, Longitudinal Studies