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Direct linkProkop, Kristie L. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
On assessments such as Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) (Stigler & Hiebert, 1999) and Program for International Assessment (PISA) ("PISA 2006 Science Competencies for Tomorrow's World", 2007) students in the United States have not been performing as well in mathematics as students in other countries. In…
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, National Norms, Comparative Analysis, Educational Improvement
Peer reviewedBoldt, R. F. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1974
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Equated Scores, National Norms, Raw Scores
Peaker, Gilbert F. – Int Rev Educ, 1969
One of a series of reports on the International Project for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (in Mathmatics).
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Comparative Testing, Equated Scores, International Programs
Brain, George B. – Todays Educ, 1969
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Comparative Testing, Educational Objectives, Educational Quality
Download full textLoret, Peter G.; Seder, Alan – 1973
The administration of the National Test-Equating Study in Reading is described as part of a symposium on the study. After contacts with each of the State Departments of Education, district and LEA superintendents were asked to consider the participation of randomly selected schools within their jurisdictions. Upon receipt of approval, school…
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, National Norms, National Programs, Reading Tests
Evangelauf, Jean; Jacobson, Robert L. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1986
One-year and overall national trends in the scores of college-bound high school students on the American College Testing Program's (ACT) college entrance examination and on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) are examined, and data on the ACT subtest score trends by sex and race and on the SAT subtest score trends by state are presented. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Comparative Testing, Higher Education, National Norms
Aleamoni, Lawrence M. – Measurement and Evaluation in Guidance, 1973
The results indicate that students enrolled in the first four courses of a foreign language have learned significantly different amounts of the same material, as measured by the CEEB Foreign Language Placement Tests. The relationships between the test scores and course grades indicated that test scores predict successful student performance almost…
Descriptors: College Language Programs, College Students, Comparative Testing, Grades (Scholastic)
Peer reviewedHelmes, Edward – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1987
Canadian undergraduate students were administered the British general ability test, AH2, along with a multiple-choice vocabulary test and the Standard Progressive Matrices, a nonverbal ability test. Scores were compared with British norms and intercorrelated with those of the other two tests. Correlations with the other ability tests were low.…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Comparative Testing, Concurrent Validity, Foreign Countries
Womer, Frank B. – 1965
The process of determining test norms and of using them realistically is discussed. This process involves putting meaning into a single test score by relating it to other test scores achieved by other pupils or by the same pupil at other times. The focus of attention is on the meaning of test norms; it is not on the meaning of types of test…
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Group Norms, National Norms, Norm Referenced Tests
Boyle, Gregory J.; And Others – Psychological Test Bulletin, 1988
The appropriateness of American norms for the School Motivation Analysis Test (SMAT) for use in Australia was studied, using 277 Australian secondary school students (99 males and 178 females). The SMAT appeared suitable for use with Australian secondary school students and the available norms appeared appropriate. (SLD)
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries, National Norms
Stedman, Lawrence C.; Kaestle, Carl F. – 1985
Recent test results reveal that the test score decline has ended, but the legacy of this highly publicized educational episode continues. One widespread interpretation of the decline and recovery is that permissiveness and a collapse of standards in the late 1960s led to the decline and that a return to the basics and to tougher standards caused…
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Educational Assessment, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education
American Association of School Administrators, Washington, DC. – 1966
In this publication, designed to serve interested laymen as well as educators, various authors explore the viewpoints of the proponents and the opponents of the National Assessment Program. In their analysis of assessment and its related issues, these authors attempt to provide information that could serve as a basis for an objective consideration…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Testing, Curriculum Evaluation
Husen, Torsten – Phi Delta Kappan, 1983
Discusses the limitations of crossnational comparisons of secondary student performance in the U.S. and selected European and Pacific industrial countries, using mathematics and science data from the International Assessment for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA). Suggests the most serious problem is the rise of a new educational…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Testing, Cross Cultural Studies
Peer reviewedHautecoeur, Jean-Paul – International Review of Education, 2000
Reports that the International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) was administered to 20 member countries of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in 1998. IALS identified a very large proportion of adults with very low levels of literacy, most of whom did not see literacy as being crucial to their well being. (Contains 12…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Comparative Testing, Cross Cultural Studies
Idaho State Dept. of Education, Boise. – 1977
The Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills (CTBS/S) was the nationally standardized, norm-referenced test selected for the Idaho Statewide Testing Program for 1976-77. It provided basic skills measures in reading, language, mathematics, total battery, reference skills, science and social studies. Students in the 4th, 8th and 11th grades from 51 of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Comparative Testing, Elementary Secondary Education
