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Liemohn, Wendell; Knapczyk, Dennis R. – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 1984
The Southern California Perceptual Motor Tests were examined due to questions about test validity and because they were being used in the development of Individualized Education Programs. A factor analysis was made based on the subjects' performances on individual test items. Findings are discussed. (Author/DF)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Factor Analysis, Learning Disabilities, Perceptual Motor Coordination

Lazow, Alfred; Nelson, Pearl Astrid – Gifted Child Quarterly, 1974
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Education, Gifted, Talent Identification
Politzer, Robert L.; Brown, Dwight – Florida FL Reporter, 1973
As part of the development of a battery of tests to determine proficiency in black standard and nonstandard speech, a test, consisting of 20 items involving verbal and pictorial cues, was developed and administered to 27 third graders and 32 sixth graders. Results were analyzed to determine test reliability and correlation with other test scores.…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Elementary Education, Language Proficiency, Language Tests
Rice, James A. – 1972
The Benton Visual Retention Test which is designed to assess visual perceptual, visual motor, and visuoconstructive abilities can give school personnel greater precision and range in testing. The standardization of this instrument was tested on 700 Houston elementary school students. Chronological age differences were maintained and correlation…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Memory, Norms

Mostkoff, Debra L.; Lazarus, Phillip J. – Psychology in the Schools, 1983
Investigates an objective scoring system in terms of interrater reliabiltiy and test-retest reliability, using drawings from 50 elementary students. Results confirmed the reliability of the scoring system and suggest differences in drawings may be due to a child's mood changes rather than the instability of the instrument. (Author/JAC)
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Family Relationship
Alspaugh, John W. – 1995
With the growing interest in educational accountability and outcomes-based education, there is an increasing emphasis on testing. This paper proposes the development of school-achievement profiles as a tool to assist with the interpretation and implementation of test results for targeting instructional improvement efforts. The study employed test…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Educational Assessment, Elementary Education
Tomsic, Margie L.; And Others – 1987
Extended caution indices (ECI) specify the degree of confidence that can be placed in an individual's test score by analyzing patterns of item response. Among the most promising of such indices are the standardized ECIs. Contrary to the literature, several instances were found, in a previous study, of nonnormal distributions of ECIs with samples…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Education, Goodness of Fit, Latent Trait Theory
YAMAMOTO, KAORU – 1964
THIS MANUAL DESCRIBES PROPOSED SCORING PROCEDURES FOR THE MINNESOTA TEST OF CREATIVE THINKING AND WRITING. TEST FORMS FOR SIX VERBAL TASKS AND THREE NONVERBAL TASKS ARE PRESENTED. FOR MOST TASKS, THIS SCORING MANUAL HAS EXTRACTED FROM THE TEST PROTOCOLS FOUR SCORES TO REPRESENT FOUR ABILITIES OF CREATIVE THINKING-- FLUENCY, FLEXIBILITY,…
Descriptors: Children, Creative Thinking, Creative Writing, Creativity Research

Weir, Kirk; Duveen, Gerard – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 1981
Describes development of a new rating scale for use by teachers. The Prosocial Behaviour Questionnaire is designed for use in the investigation of elementary school children's behavior. A copy of the rating scale is included. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers
Richardson, Ellis; And Others – 1979
The Decoding Skills Test (DST) was developed to provide a detailed measurement of decoding skills which could be used in research on developmental dyslexia. Another purpose of the test is to provide a diagnostic-prescriptive instrument to be used in the evaluation of, and program planning for, children needing remedial reading. The test is…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Diagnostic Tests, Dyslexia, Elementary Education

Costantino, Giuseppe; Malgady, Robert G. – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 1983
Compares verbal fluency of 156 K-6 urban children (72 Hispanic, 41 Black, 43 White) using the Thematic Apperception Test and two versions of TEMAS, a new thematic apperception test using minority or nonminority characters, cultural themes, and urban backgrounds. Finds females more verbally fluent and Hispanics/Blacks more fluent on TEMAS. (MH)
Descriptors: Black Students, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Hispanic Americans
Purkey, William Watson; And Others – 1984
The purpose of the Florida KEY is to provide teachers with a single instrument to infer self-concept as learner of students in grades 1-6. The KEY identifies selected behaviors of students who seem to possess positive and realistic self-concepts in the area of school success. The KEY contains 23 interrogative items that describe student behavior…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Elementary Education, Factor Structure, Scoring
Barnett, Nancy – 1979
Techniques for assessing test validity and reliability are applied to an analysis of an unpublished test, in order to familiarize test users in local bilingual programs with the technical evidence that should be available for instruments of potential use in placing limited English-speaking students. The instrument studied, the Language Assignment…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Elementary Education, Language Dominance
Michigan State Dept. of Education, Lansing. Research, Evaluation, and Assessment Services. – 1972
This explanatory booklet and the materials that accompany it have two major purposes. The first purpose is to provide local school officials with information regaing the performance on basic skills achievement of each student who took the 1971-72 Michigan Educational Assessment Battery. The second purpose is to provide local officials with…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Comparative Analysis, Educational Assessment
Ramirez, Arnulfo G.; Politzer, Robert L. – 1975
A revised Spanish/English oral-proficiency test battery was administered to 40 Spanish-surnamed pupils equally divided by sex at grade levels 1, 3, 5, and 7. The test battery included parallel Spanish and English versions of: (1) a 12-item vocabulary pretest, (2) a 32-item vocabulary-by-domain test consisting of four sections--home, neighborhood,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Elementary Education, English
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