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Download full textWelch, Catherine; And Others – 1989
The differential performance of black and white college freshmen on a direct measure of writing skills, the essay portion of the American College Testing Program's Collegiate Assessment of Academic Proficiency (CAAP), was studied. The data consisted of responses of a sample of 998 black and 3,727 white examinees to two individual prompts for…
Descriptors: Black Students, College Freshmen, Comparative Testing, Essay Tests
Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing, Los Angeles, CA. – 1990
Information was gathered about current state interest, activity, and concerns related to performance assessment for students. The Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing of the University of California (Los Angeles) conducted telephone interviews with directors of testing in each of the 50 states in the spring of 1990.…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Interviews
Texas Education Agency, Austin. – 1986
The Texas Educational Assessment of Minimum Skills (TEAMS) exit level test was first administered to all eleventh grade students in October 1985. A make-up testing was conducted in January 1986. This report contains the results of the May 1986 retesting of approximately 3,200 11th-grade students who had previously failed to master either the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Grade 11, Graduation Requirements, High Schools
Jonas, Edward D., Jr.; Hayes-Wallace, Lamarian – 1986
The effects of failing to pass a high school exit exam were examined for the Georgia Basic Skills Test (GBST). Data were collected on a random sample of students who were tenth graders in 1983 and in 1984. The following issues were studied: (1) impact of failure on self esteem, as measured by the Piers-Harris Children's Self-Concept Scale (P-H);…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Cutting Scores, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 10
Elliot, Scott M.; And Others – 1988
The process used by the Texas Education Agency to update public school teacher certification tests in a statewide program in Texas is described. The testing program implemented is called the Examination for the Certification of Educators in Texas. After a policy review, advisory committees for 63 test areas prepared content frameworks, created…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Item Banks, Licensing Examinations (Professions)
Davis, Todd; And Others – 1987
Whether the time limits of the Academic Assessment Placement Program (AAPP) Reading Comprehension Test of the State Board of Regents (SBR) of Tennessee provide fair treatment for all underprepared students was assessed. Focus was on studying various response patterns and completion rates that indicate whether or not speededness (SP) is critical.…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, College Admission, College Students, Community Colleges
Blagden, Pauline – 1984
The City of London Polytechnic offers a number of part-time courses leading to qualifications awarded by professional associations and similar examining bodies. The majority of the courses are taught by the departments of accounting and finance, banking and insurance, transport studies, and marketing. There are also courses in biological sciences,…
Descriptors: Certification, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Information Needs
Kohr, Richard L. – 1983
The Pennsylvania Educational Quality Assessment data have consistently shown differences between rural, suburban, and urban schools in terms of performance on goal areas and on important background variables. The most consistent pattern has been demonstrated by achievement on cognitive measures. The analyses reported upon were conducted on the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affective Objectives, Cognitive Objectives, Comparative Analysis
Fetler, Mark – 1983
This paper reports on regression based methods for identifying exemplary schools. A distinction is made between schools which are maintaining an exceptional level of achievement and those which are improving their achievement in an extraordinary way. More schools were found which consistently exceeded expectations and fewer schools were found…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Data Analysis, Educational Assessment
Rounds, Jeanine C.; Andersen, Dan – 1984
In winter 1982-83, a survey of California's community colleges was conducted to determine which assessment activities were considered most effective and to identify areas needing improvement. Responses were received from 99 of the 106 colleges in the system. Study findings included the following: (1) assessment procedures, counseling procedures,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Counseling Services, Educational Assessment, Educational Diagnosis
Ferrara, Steven; Walker-Bartnick, Leslie – 1989
The viability of the Partial Credit Model (PCM) of G. N. Masters (1982) for scaling and banking individual essay prompts from a statewide writing assessment program was investigated. Preliminary analyses indicated the feasibility of using the PCM, the general polychotomous form of the Rasch model, with essay data from the Maryland Writing Test…
Descriptors: Cues, Equated Scores, Essay Tests, Grade 9
Marso, Ronald N.; Pigge, Fred L. – 1988
This study involved the assessment of classroom teachers' standardized and mastery program testing needs and proficiencies by a random sample of Ohio principals and supervisors (N=586). A total of 229 supervisors, 313 building principals, and 44 individuals in related supervisory roles was used. The findings from the investigation support the…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Beginning Teachers, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education
Ferrara, Steven F. – 1987
Statistical equating of scores from direct writing assessments is performed in Maryland to hold the difficulty of passing the Maryland Writing Test (MWT) equivalent from year to year and to allow a demonstration of growth in student writing achievement over the years. Passage of the test is a high school graduation requirement. Prior to…
Descriptors: Equated Scores, Essay Tests, Graduation Requirements, High School Students
New Jersey State Dept. of Education, Trenton. – 1986
This Technical Report provides descriptions and summary data that assist measurement specialists in assessing the procedures used in developing New Jersey's High School Proficiency Test (HSPT), the technical qualities of the tests, and the statewide results obtained from its use. The data summarized in this report were collected during the various…
Descriptors: Equated Scores, Graduation Requirements, High Schools, Item Analysis
Kilborn, Mary C. – 1985
The preliminary work of the Scottish "School-Based Assessment of Communicative Foreign-Language Skills in Secondary Classes 3 and 4" to train teachers to undertake increased testing responsibilities under recent educational reforms is explained. The models of communicative competence and performance being developed for use with classroom…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages), Educational Research, Foreign Countries
