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Content and Score Performance Comparisons between a Survey Achievement Test and a Diagnostic Mathematics Test.
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Cummings, Oliver W.; Hoover, H. D. – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 1985
Presents a comparative review of the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills--Mathematics and the Stanford Diagnostic Mathematics Test. Performance of fifth- and sixth-grade students (N=548) on the two batteries was also compared. Results indicated the two tests measure essentially the same mathematics skills. (JAC)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Comparative Analysis, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary School Students
Attitudes Toward Standardized Achievement Tests and Their Relation to Achievement Test Performance.
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Karmos, Ann H.; Karmos, Joseph S. – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 1984
Examined the attitudes of 360 students in grades 6 through 9 toward standardized achievement tests. Results showed scores on the Stanford Achievement Test were significantly related to students' perceptions of individual effort, test importance, and the use schools make of test results. (JAC)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Performance Factors, Sex Differences
My Vocational Situation: Its Relation to Concurrent Career and Future Academic Benchmarks.
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Healy, Charles C.; And Others – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 1990
Community college students' (n=662) scores on My Vocational Situation related modestly to some concurrent signs of career progress but did not predict grades or enrollment decisions, thereby calling into question the instrument's usefulness for prescription or evaluation, unless it is revised. (Author)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Career Development, Community Colleges, Evaluation Methods