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Peer reviewedSykes, Robert C.; Yen, Wendy M. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2000
Investigated how well the generalized and Rasch models described item and test performance across a broad range of mixed-item-format test configurations (six tests from two state proficiency testing programs). Evaluating the impact of model assumptions on the predictions of item and test information permitted a delineation of the implications of…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Prediction, Scaling
Download full textLunneborg, Clifford E.; Lunneborg, Patricia W. – 1968
This study is part of a continuing search for measures of divergent thinking and for better predictors of performance in occupational areas depending on such ways of thinking. Traditional predictors of college performance, i.e., high school GPA and tests of verbal and quantitative aptitude have always worked much better estimating success in…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Architectural Education, Educational Testing, Higher Education
DeMauro, Gerald E. – 2002
Recent reports of high levels of achievement on the Regents examinations in New York state and relatively poor showing on the eighth grade examinations have led many to speculate that the eighth grade examinations lack good predictive properties with respect to the Regents examinations. There are many problems with arriving at such a conclusion,…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Construct Validity, English, Language Arts
Newton, Juliette Denson; Walker, Gwendolyn Holliman – 1998
The purpose of this study was to determine if there is a correlation between a high school student's score on the Tests of Achievement and Proficiency (TAP) and the same student's score on the Georgia High School Graduation Test (GHSGT) in the area of mathematics. Student test scores were secured from 182 students at a middle Georgia high school…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Correlation, High School Students, High Schools
Holman, Linda J. – 1995
This study examined the following research hypotheses for fifth graders taking the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) tests in the El Paso (Texas) Independent School District in 1990-91: (1) ethnicity is positively predictive of TAAS status; (2) socioeconomic status (SES) is positively predictive of TAAS status; (3) gender is positively…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Elementary School Students, Ethnicity
Angoff, William H., Ed. – 1971
This report was prepared for the specialist who, well acquainted with the concepts and statistics of educational measurement, needs technical information about the Admissions Testing Program of the College Entrance Examination Board. It brings together the findings of a considerable number of studies of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Admission Criteria, Admission (School), College Bound Students
