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Holmes, Susan E. – 1980
The purpose of the research was to explore an alternative implementation strategy for Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I evaluation Model A; that is, the use of Rasch calibrated item banks rather than traditional norm-referenced tests. A methodology for obtaining normative information for such banks involved equating a normed test with…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Item Banks
Download full textWeber, Jerry; Twing, Jon – 1986
This study examines the relative value of five empirical procedures for determining cutscores in placement of entering college freshmen. Placement test scores were obtained for all students entering in the fall, but tested in the summer of 1983 at a midwestern community college. Students who took at least one placement test in arithmetic, algebra,…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis
Slack, Jill Berlin; St. John, Edward P. – 1998
This study investigated the mathematics achievement test performance of 62 non-transient elementary school learners in accelerated schools using a longitudinal design. Both the California Achievement Test (CAT) and the Louisiana Educational Assessment Program (LEAP) test were included in this investigation. In particular, this study sought to…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Achievement Tests, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education
Rizavi, Saba; Way, Walter D.; Lu, Ying; Pitoniak, Mary; Steffen, Manfred – Online Submission, 2004
The purpose of this study was to use realistically simulated data to evaluate various CAT designs for use with the verbal reasoning measure of the Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT). Factors such as item pool depth, content constraints, and item formats often cause repeated adaptive administrations of an item at ability levels that are not…
Descriptors: Test Items, Test Bias, Item Banks, College Admission
