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Peer reviewedHunter, Darryl M.; And Others – Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation/La Revue canadienne d'evaluation de programme, 1996
Discusses issues associated with the use of holistic and analytic scoring methods in large-scale student assessments. Reviews the education literature and describes the recent Saskatchewan study comparing the results of the two scoring approaches applied to an achievement test taken by about 1,600 third graders. (SLD)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Comparative Analysis, Educational Research, Elementary Education
International Comparisons of Student Achievement in Mathematics and Science: A Canadian Perspective.
Peer reviewedNagy, Philip – Canadian Journal of Education, 1996
The valid interpretation of international testing program results in mathematics and science must recognize inherent limitations to international comparisons, and should give opportunity-to-learn as much importance as achievement data. Canadian test results, looked at in this light, appear better than some critics have suggested. (Author/SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries
Download full textVirgin, A. E.; Darby, L. M. – 1974
In 1971, a comprehensive study was made of mathematics and reading achievement in the Borough of North York, Ontario. In 1974, a replication and followup study was carried out. The purposes of the study were to replicate the 1972 study, and to obtain a measure of growth in reading and mathematics achievement between grade 3 and grade 5, over the…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Mathematics
Virgin, A. E.; Rowan, M. – 1975
In this replication of the 1972 and 1974 studies of reading and mathematics achievement in North York, Ontario, approximately 20 percent of the students at each of the proposed grade levels were included in the sampling. Again, the Metropolitan Achievement Test, the Sequential Tests of Educational Progress, and the School and College Ability Test…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Mathematics
Carbol, Barry C. – 1987
The General Educational Development (GED) testing program has been a part of the Alberta High School Equivalency Program since 1981. Between December 1981 and December 1983, 4,333 applicants passed the GED in Alberta, and 802 applicants failed to pass the test. Random samples of 200 individuals from each of these groups were studied to determine…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Adult Education, Comparative Analysis, Credibility
Clarke, S. C. T.; And Others – 1978
The Edmonton Grade III Achievement: 1956-1977 study is a comparison of achievement in reading, arithmetic, and language involving all of the third grade students in a large school system. Six basic skills tests which were administered to all of the Edmonton third grade students in 1956 were reprinted and administered to all of the third grade…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Basic Skills
