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Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Minister's Advisory Committee for the Canadian Awareness Project. – 1981
The activities of the Canadian Awareness Project involved the development and analysis of an assessment of general knowledge and understanding of Canadian history, geography and citizenship as demonstrated by a sample of elementary, junior and senior high school students in provincially-funded schools. Included in this report are the phases…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Cultural Awareness, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textConnecticut State Dept. of Education, Hartford. Bureau of Research, Planning, and Evaluation. – 1981
The "Education Evaluation and Remedial Assistance" section 10-14n of the Connecticut General Statutes, requires that the State Board of Education administer an annual statewide proficiency examination in basic reading, language arts, and mathematic skills to all ninth-grade students. This report describes the development of the test and…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Educational Assessment, Grade 9, Junior High Schools
Dependents Schools (DOD), Washington, DC. – 1984
As part of the Department of Defense Dependents Schools (DoDDS) annual assessment of achievement, the Metropolitan Readiness Tests (MRT) were administered to approximately 14,768 first-grade pupils in the fall of 1983. The mean scaled scores of the DoDDS first graders clustered around the national mean of 150. The DoDDS mean scores in the various…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Dependents Schools
American Coll. Testing Program, Iowa City, IA. – 1989
This manual contains preliminary information, largely of a technical nature, about the enhanced American College Testing (ACT) Program introduced in October 1989. It focuses primarily on the tests of educational development, the component of the program that has been substantially revised. Although one-third of the ACT Interest Inventory Items has…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Equated Scores
South Carolina State Dept. of Education, Columbia. Office of Research. – 1980
The 1979-80 South Carolina Statewide Testing Program assessed the achievement of students in public school grades 3, 6, and 11. Results were used to facilitate the decision-making process of educators at the state, district, and school levels. The Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills (CTBS) were used to measure achievement in the basic skill areas…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Comparative Testing, Educational Assessment
McCann, Kaye R. – 1989
Results for the Spring 1989 Delaware Educational Assessment Program are presented. The assessment involved the administration of a newly normed test--the Stanford Achievement Test, Eighth Edition--to approximately 65,000 public school students in grades 1 through 8 and 11 during the period extending from April 5 through 18, 1989. Among other…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Skills, Listening Skills
