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Marzano, Robert J. – 1978
A study was designed to identify highly teachable composing skills that have a strong statistical relationship with composition quality across various grade levels. Sample compositions were randomly selected from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (1972). A total of 750 compositions written by 9-, 13-, and 17-year-old-students (250…
Descriptors: Achievement, Basic Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation
Download full textMislevy, Robert J.; Bock, R. Darrell – 1984
New legislation in 1972 shifted the emphasis of the California Assessment Program (CAP) from traditional every pupil achievement testing to a more efficient multiple-matrix testing design, under which a broad spectrum of skills could be surveyed without undue expenditure of educational resources. Scale score reporting was introduced to the grade 6…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Equated Scores, Grade 6
Connecticut State Board of Education, Hartford. Bureau of Research, Planning, and Evaluation. – 1984
Results are presented of the Connecticut Statewide Basic Skills Proficiency Test, which was administered to Connecticut ninth graders for the fourth time in 1983. The history of the test is summarized; it was designed to identify students who are performing so far below grade level that they require remedial instruction to succeed in the ninth…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Cutting Scores, Grade 9
New Jersey State Dept. of Higher Education, Trenton. New Jersey Basic Skills Council. – 1980
This paper describes the meeting of the Reading and Writing Advisory Committee of the New Jersey Basic Skills Council with selected high school English teachers and administrators. This panel established cut scores for statewide interpretation of the New Jersey College Basic Skills Placement Test (NJCBSPT). The NJCBSPT is administered to all…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Basic Skills, Cutting Scores, Higher Education
Indiana State Dept. of Education, Indianapolis. – 1985
The Indiana Basic Competency Skills Testing and Remediation Program manual states that the purpose of the testing program is to assist Indiana's educators with the implementation of remediation programs, and to assess overall educational programs. Procedures for administering the tests of reading, mathematics, and writing in grades 3 and 6 are…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Elementary Education, Grade 3, Grade 6
1985
Intended for use by school administrators, guidance counselors, teachers and proctors, this manual contains general information on the New York State Regents examinations and competency tests, as well as specific regulations and procedures for ordering, administering, and rating these examinations. The competency testing requirements for a local…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Cutting Scores, Disabilities
Texas Education Agency, Austin. – 1986
The Texas Educational Assessment of Minimum Skills (TEAMS) was developed by the Texas Education Agency (TEA), in response to Texas House Bill 72 (1984), which mandated a new basic skills assessment program for mathematics, reading, and writing at grades 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, and 11. This document is one in a series of Instructional Strategies Guides…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 3
PDF pending restorationTaylor, Maurice – 1997
This publication (in both English and French versions) on learner assessment in workplace literacy programs begins with a discourse on some dimensions of the testing question. It discusses three major approaches to assessment in the broader area of adult literacy that can shed light in the domain of workplace literacy: traditional, competency…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Competency Based Education
