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Download full textKirkup, Catherine; Schagen, Ian; Wheater, Rebecca; Morrison, Jo; Whetton, Chris – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2007
In September 2005 the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) in association with the Department for Education and Skills (DfES), the Sutton Trust and the College Board, began a five-year research study to examine the validity of an aptitude test in higher education admissions. This report describes and explores the relationships…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Academic Achievement, Student Surveys, Aptitude Tests
Orvik, James M. – 1973
The purpose of this study is to assess the English vocabulary of Eskimo pupils entering a bilingual education program by establishing a normative criterion based on the vocabulary levels of children whose first language is English. The tests used, "Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices" and "English Receptive Vocabulary," bear out the anticipated…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Children, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Testing
