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Suddick, David E.; Collins, Burton A. – 1985
Based upon prior research in the College of Business and Public Administration and the first year of the university testing program at an upper division, midwestern university, implications for testing of older transfer students are drawn. Students should be tested before, or during, their first term of academic history. If remediation is not…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Students, Higher Education, Minimum Competency Testing
Goodstein, H. A. – 1982
The proposed standard for judging proficiency test score reliability requires that the proportion of items passed for each objective assessed be a dependable estimate of the universe score for the domain strata established by the objective. Domain breadth is the focusing issue. Data from a field trial of the Tennessee Proficiency Test are analyzed…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Testing, Elementary Secondary Education
Parramore, Barbara M.; And Others – 1980
Findings are reported based on an overall assessment of the impact of the North Carolina mandated competency test on eleventh graders of the class of 1980. The first part of the study examines the extent to which students who failed the first test showed improvement on subsequent testing. The second part studied those students who failed the…
Descriptors: Discipline Problems, Grade Point Average, Grade 11, High School Students
Download full textKoffler, Stephen L. – 1979
This research compared the cut-off scores estimated from an empirical procedure (Contrasting group method) to those determined from a more theoretical process (Nedelsky method). A methodological and statistical framework was also provided for analysis of the data to obtain the most appropriate standard using the empirical procedure. Data were…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Comparative Analysis, Cutting Scores, Decision Making
Holley, Freda M. – 1976
To explain the discrepancy between median scores on the 1976 administration of the California Achievement Tests (CAT) and the Sequential Tests of Educational Progress (STEP) in the Austin Independent School District (AISD), ten technical variables typical of achievement tests were considered as explanations. (1) The STEP may measure different…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Comparative Analysis, Curriculum
PDF pending restorationGlass, Gene V. – 1977
The logical and psychological bases for setting cutting scores for criterion-referenced tests are examined; they are found to be intrinsically arbitrary and are often examples of misdirected precision and axiomatization. The term, criterion referenced, originally referred to a technique for making test scores meaningful by controlling the test…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Competency Based Education, Criterion Referenced Tests, Cutting Scores
Indiana Association of Area Vocational Districts, Inc., Speedway. – 1990
An Indiana project developed a model diagnostic basic skills testing program with statewide application for teachers certified under the Occupational Specialist Rules. Fifteen commercially produced tests were reviewed for adoption. The set of criteria that guided the selection process included technical aspects and application factors. The TABE…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Beginning Teachers, Diagnostic Tests, Field Tests
PDF pending restorationBauer, Ernest A.; And Others – 1979
The reading portion of the Michigan Educational Assessment Program (MEAP) was equated to the reading comprehension subtest of the Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills (CTBS) using the Rasch Model. Both tests were administered to 366 low achieving fourth grade students. MEAP was treated as both a 95-item test and a 19-item (number of objectives…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Criterion Referenced Tests, Difficulty Level, Educational Objectives
