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Download full textPowers, Stephen – 1979
A longitudinal study was initiated in the Tuscon Unified School District (TUSD) to follow the achievement of seventh and ninth grade Title I students: (1) to investigate the suitability and difficulty of the Total Reading Test of the Metropolitan Achievement Test (MAT) and the Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills (CTBS); (2) to compare the gains in…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Testing
Dungan, Lucille A. – 1988
This study investigated the "customization" of a standardized achievement test to measure the effect on group and individual scores. "Customization" refers to the modification of an existing test to more closely match test specifications of the entity using the test, usually a state or large school district. Results of an…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Difficulty Level, Elementary School Students, Grade 4
Emond, Susie – 1979
A discriminant analysis of the relationships between 335 Florida students' first and second grade scores on the reading subtests of the Metropolitan Achievement Test (MAT) and their third grade scores on the Florida Statewide Assessment Test (FSAT) was undertaken, using race, sex, and intelligence as independent variables. Three null hypotheses…
Descriptors: Discriminant Analysis, Minimum Competency Testing, Predictor Variables, Primary Education
Easton, John Q.; Washington, Elois D. – 1982
The effects of students taking different levels of the same standardized achievement test were assessed by administering two levels of the same test to each student. The functional level of the test was taken by all students. The second level of testing was randomly assigned at the adjacent higher or lower level of the test. Functional level…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Pilot Projects, Reading Achievement, Scores
Reynolds, Cecil R. – 1980
Determination of the fairness of preschool tests for use with children of varying cultural backgrounds is the major objective of this study. The predictive validity of a battery of preschool tests, chosen to represent the core areas of preschool assessment, across race and sex, was evaluated. Validity of the battery was examined over a 12-month…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Grade 1, Kindergarten Children, Predictive Validity
Floden, Robert E.; And Others – 1978
The authors argue that personnel who select standardized achievement tests have been led to believe that the major achievement test batteries differ very little in terms of the topics they test; but that the content covered by these major tests is different, and that such differences have consequences for instructional content. To test this…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Curriculum, Elementary School Mathematics, Grade 4
Kennedy, Robert; Buckner, John – 1989
The Minimum Performance Test (MPT), Metropolitan Achievement Test, Sixth Edition (MAT6), and the new standards required by the 1983 Quality Education Act and their impact on teachers in Arkansas were assessed. A sample of 103 elementary school teachers from 39 school districts indicated that the tests and standards generally met with favorable…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Achievement Tests, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers
