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A Comparison of the Listening Ability of Blind Students and the Listening Ability of Sighted Students in the Intermediate Grades.
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Crowley, Francis J.; And Others – 1965
To determine whether differences exist in their listening ability, 152 blind braille-reading and 2 sighted children in the intermediate grades were studied. Subjects were classified into three ability levels on the basis of their scores on individual IQ tests. The Listening Subtest of the Sequential Tests of Educational Progress was administered…
Descriptors: Ability, Blindness, Communication (Thought Transfer), Exceptional Child Research
Zeroing in on the STEP Writing Test: What Does It Tell a Teacher?
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Madaus, George F.; Rippey, Robert M. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1966
The validity of the multiple-choice Sequential Tests of Educational Progress (STEP) Writing Test (1957) was tested by the University of Chicago Center for the Cooperative Study of Instruction. Seven criteria developed by the center to score essay assignments were used to determine the relationship between STEP and actual writing behavior. Of the…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Educational Testing, English Instruction, Evaluation Criteria