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Peer reviewedCabello, Beverly – NABE: The Journal for the National Association for Bilingual Education, 1983
Although the vocabulary, content, and format of the English and Spanish versions of the California Test of Basic Skills were largely equivalent, content analysis revealed three possible sources of test bias: (1) problems inherent in translation; (2) the match between tests and instructional materials; and (3) intervening cultural variables. (SB)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Instructional Materials, Comparative Analysis
Schmidt, William H. – 1978
A taxonomy was developed for classifying instructional materials in fourth grade mathematics, as well as the content of actual classroom instruction and of achievement tests. The taxonomy is defined by the intersection of three factors and results in 468 cells: (1) mode of presentation (for example, use of graphs, tables, story problems)--3…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Classification, Content Analysis, Curriculum Evaluation
