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Download full textRudner, Lawrence M.; Eissenberg, Thomas E. – 1989
This digest summarizes the results of the latest annual survey of state teacher testing programs. State directors of teacher testing programs were contacted in the summer of 1989 and asked to update the data compiled by the American Institutes for Research in 1988. Data indicate that: (1) states commonly use admission tests for applicants to…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College Entrance Examinations, Cutting Scores, Elementary Secondary Education
Torney-Purta, Judith; Schwille, John; Amadeo, Jo-Ann – 1999
This ERIC Digest reports on the origins, purposes, and methods of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) Civic Education Study. In 1993, the General Assembly of the IEA decided to carry out a two phase study of civic education. The goal of the two phase study was to identify and examine in a comparative…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Citizenship Responsibility, Civics, Democracy
Glaser, Robert; Resnick, Lauren – 1991
The work of the National Research Center on Student Learning (CSL) is described. The CSL, one of 23 national centers funded by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, is an integral part of the Learning Research and Development Center of the University of Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania). The CSL conducts interdisciplinary research that…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Classroom Research, Critical Thinking, Elementary Secondary Education
Imel, Susan – 2002
A form of group learning, cohorts, has become increasingly attractive to administrators, instructors, and participants in adult education. Basic academic skills cohort learning supports three types of knowing: instrumental, socializing, and self-authoring; whereas, in higher and adult education cohort learning, the development of critical…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Adult Development, Adult Education
