Student responses to the West Virginia Educational Standards Test (WESTEST) 2 Online Writing Assessment are scored by a computer-scoring engine. The scoring method is not widely understood among educators, and there exists a misperception that it is not comparable to hand scoring. To address these issues, the West Virginia Department of Education…

The TIMSS 2011 International Database includes data for all questionnaires administered as part of the TIMSS 2011 assessment. This supplement contains the international version of the TIMSS 2011 background questionnaires and curriculum questionnaires in the following 10 sections: (1) Fourth Grade Student Questionnaire; (2) Fourth Grade Home…

Many articles and reports have reviewed, researched, and commented on international assessments from the perspective of exploring what is relevant for the United States' education systems. Researchers make claims about whether the top-performing systems have transferable practices or policies that could be applied to the United States. However,…

This study was designed to compare the performance on selected intelligence tests of a group of Canadian Indian children who had never been to school with the performance of a similar group of children who were attending school regularly. (Author/RK)

Article relates research done to discover with which characters adolescents form strong identifications; and to learn which characters these youths most admire. (Author)

This study offers one bit of evidence that quizzes written to require reasoning are more effective in attaining thinking" objectives than are recall quizzes. (Author)

The purposes of this study were (1) to develop norms among American Indian Students for the Vane Kindergarten Test (VKT) and (2) to statistically compare these with the published norms. Sixty-one test results of Sioux Indian children ages 4.6-5.5 were statistically compared with VKT norms. This tabulation of the results indicated that there is no…

This pretest report on the National Head Start Evaluation Project gives data on ethnicity and ages of children enrolled in four Head Start centers in Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona, and describes the present status of evaluation at these centers. Completed pretests, proposed evaluation instruments, and available pretest data are presented.…

In a previous study, (ED 038 175) Mississippi children, who were a year younger (3 1/2 to 4 1/2) than Alabama children, had scored higher than the Alabama children on posttesting. This supplementary report gives the results of further investigation of this finding. Explanations may be: (1) the younger children began with higher IQ scores; (2) more…

Article describes a word test given to seventh-grade students that revealed a list of science words that should prove to be helpful to teachers in the teaching of science. (ML)

Results are reported at the end of the second year of a 3-year comparison of four prekindergarten programs: Bereiter-Engelmann, DARCEE, Montessori and Traditional. A number of classes in each program style were used with 246 four-year-olds in Head Start. Children were tested early in the year, at the end of the year, and at the end of kindergarten…

Third in the 1971-72 series, the report provides local school district officials with information regarding their own school districts and its schools as assessed by the Michigan Educational Assessment Program. The information can assist local officials in making decisions regarding the allocation of resources and the design of educational…

Intellectual functioning of a lower class kindergarten class exposed to the introduction of a Piaget-oriented curriculum was compared with intellectual functioning of one comparison lower class and one comparison middle class group of children taught in a traditional, activity-centered kindergarten program. Change scores between the beginning and…

Article relates a language research study that found that children have not thoroughly mastered the passive transformation by the end of the first grade. (Author/ML)