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Thompson, Bruce; Arnau, Randolph C. – 1998
The Personal Preferences Self-Description Questionnaire (PPSDQ) (B. Thompson) was developed to measure personal preferences with regard to Jungian psychological types. Instruments in this area are among the most popular measures used in education and psychology; the measures are used in matching teaching and learning styles, in individual…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, College Students, Higher Education, Personality Assessment
Obiekwe, Jerry C. – 2001
Palmore's Facts on Aging Quiz (FAQ) (E. Palmore, 1977) is an instrument that is used to educate, to measure learning, to test knowledge, to measure attitudes toward aging, and in research. A comparative analysis was performed between the FAQ I and its multiple choice version and the FAQ II and its multiple choice version in terms of their item…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Attitude Measures, Educational Research, Guessing (Tests)
Sireci, Stephen G.; Fitzgerald, Cyndy; Xing, Dehui – 1998
Adapting credentialing examinations for international uses involves translating tests for use in multiple languages. This paper explores methods for evaluating construct equivalence and item equivalence across different language versions of a test. These methods were applied to four different language versions (English, French, German, and…
Descriptors: Credentials, Engineers, Factor Analysis, Foreign Countries
Jang, Younghee – 1998
This paper describes the processes that one school district, the Visalia Unified School District (California), went through in establishing a standards-based assessment and accountability system using multiple methods. First the district's standards-based assessment and accountability system and the methods used to establish it are described, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Accountability, Educational Policy
Bailey, Nancy; And Others – 1994
A study was designed in which a battery of 11 selected instruments was given to 320 professional students (four classes) at the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine to measure a variety of parameters of brain function and cognitive ability. Results were to be used to develop ability or competency profiles, to compare scores, to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aptitude Tests, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes