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Keith, Timothy Z.; Novak, Christine G. – 1987
The K-ABC purports to be a fresh alternative to standardized measures of intellectual functioning, by virtue of separating measurement of acquired factual knowledge from measurement of the ability to solve novel problems. Some researchers have questioned this claim to the capability of distinguishing aptitude and achievement. By analyzing the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Factor Analysis, Intelligence Tests
Scheuneman, Janice; And Others – 1991
To help increase the understanding of sources of difficulty in test items, a study was undertaken to evaluate the effects of various aspects of prose complexity on the difficulty of achievement test items. The items of interest were those that presented a verbal stimulus followed by a question about the stimulus and a standard set of…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Difficulty Level, Goodness of Fit, Knowledge Level