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O'Neal, Sandra – 1982
Each spring the Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills (CTBS) are administered to grades 5, 8, and 11 throughout New Mexico as part of the State Department of Education mandated assessment program. This report contains information regarding Albuquerque Public Schools' results on the 1982 CTBS. A new form of the CTBS was selected for testing fifth and…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Skills
Maryland State Dept. of Education, Baltimore. – 1982
The Maryland Accountability Program Annual Report has been developed as a reference document on test data for the public. It provides a survey both of test results and of the progress being made by students attending Maryland public schools in grades 3, 5, and 8. The 1980-81 report is divided into three chapters. Chapter 1 defines educational…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Achievement Tests, Basic Skills
Download full textMangino, Evangelina; Babcock, Marilyn A. – 1986
A study was designed to assess the effects of the introduction of a state-mandated minimum competency test (MCT) on students' acquisition of basic and high-level mathematics skills. Subjects of the study were ninth-grade students, all of whom attended the same schools in the Austin (Texas) Independent School District, and took the same form of the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Grade 9
Webb, Nan; Tripp, John – 1987
The Testing Center at Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC) in North Carolina, Educational Testing Service, and the College Board are participating jointly in pilot and field testing Computerized Placement Tests (CPTs). CPTs, which assess communications, reading, and mathematics skills, have the following benefits: (1) students may take the…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Computer Assisted Testing, Mathematics Tests
Biester, Thomas W.; Dusewicz, Russell A. – 1983
This report presents an analysis and synthesis of student performance data collected through state-mandated testing programs. The common performance areas assessed were basic skills achievement. The unique performance areas assessed were content skills within a particular state. Achievement data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Basic Skills, Elementary Secondary Education
Washington State Board for Community Coll. Education, Olympia. – 1985
A description is provided of the work of the Student Assessment Task Force, which was charged by the Washington State Student Services Commission Executive Board to "provide leadership to the state system on the topic of assessment." Following background information on the charge of the task force and a statement of its objectives and…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Evaluation Methods, Program Costs
New Jersey State Dept. of Education, Trenton. – 1987
This report consists of data tables summarizing test results statewide for students in grades 11 and 12 who took the New Jersey Minimum Basic Skills (MBS) test in March, 1987. The MBS assesses minimum skills in reading and mathematics. It is used as the graduation test for students who entered ninth grade prior to September 1985 and have not yet…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Graduation Requirements, High Schools, Mathematics Tests
San Antonio Independent School District, TX. – 1985
This report discusses student achievement in the San Antonio Independent School District (Texas) as seen through the results of the Texas Assessment of Basic Skills (TABS) and the Metropolitan Achievement Test (MAT). Taken without benefit of statewide performance the TABS scores indicate significant and troublesome declines in basic skills. The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Elementary Secondary Education
Law, Alexander I. – 1982
This document presents more useful statewide testing as a rationale for a revision to the California Assessment Program (CAP). A brief description of the revision procedures, and an illustrative outline of the skills and concepts covered by CAP are included. Approximately 270 districts and counties participated in the test development process to…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Educational Assessment, Grade 6
New Mexico State Dept. of Education, Santa Fe. – 1980
This handbook contains suggestions for the use of results from the New Mexico High School Proficiencies Examination (NMHSPE) and describes procedures for developing programs and planning intervention strategies. The information and guidelines will facilitate administrative action for program improvement through integration of the NMHSPE results…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Competency Based Education, Graduation Requirements, High Schools
Koffler, Stephen L. – 1983
This study examined the curricular validity of the New Jersey Basic Skills test, a minimum competency test administered to all public school students in grades 3, 6, 9, and 11 to measure basic skills in reading and mathematics. Based on examinations of a Modified Caution Index, there were differences in the usual response patterns for both reading…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Court Litigation, Curriculum, Elementary Secondary Education
Forstall, James C. – 1984
In fall 1983, a survey was conducted to determine the extent of basic skills assessment of incoming students conducted in Illinois public community colleges. Questionnaires were sent to 50 community colleges, requesting information on the skills assessed, the time of assessment, and the instruments used. Study findings, based on responses from 44…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Educational Diagnosis, Quantitative Tests
South Carolina State Dept. of Education, Columbia. – 1980
In compliance with Section 1 of the 1978 Act 631, the following information is reported: (1) the administration of readiness test to all students at the beginning of first grade and (2) the development, field testing, and revision of end of year criterion-referenced tests in Grades 1, 2, 3, 6, and 8. The readiness test was administered statewide…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Educational Legislation, Elementary Education
Forster, Fred; Doherty, Victor – 1978
As a result of using the Rasch model in building item banks in reading and mathematics, we were able to design two new testing programs for our district. The first was a grade level competency-based evaluation program designed to identify our district's low achievement-level students as well as the precompetency goals on which they needed help.…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Educational Objectives, Elementary Education
Virginia State Dept. of Education, Richmond. – 1978
Rasch model statistics and domain-referenced test development methods were used in the Virginia Basic Learning Skills (BLS) testing programs and the Graduation Competencies testing program in order to increase the fairness and effectiveness of those programs. Mastery of each of the 83 objectives in reading and mathematics for grades one through…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Criterion Referenced Tests, Cutting Scores, Elementary Secondary Education
