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Download full textKohr, Richard L. – 1976
Pennsylvania's Educational Quality Assessment Program provides each participating school with a building level report in which state percentiles are a prominent part. Multiple matrix sampling was being considered as a technique to reduce testing time. However, there was great concern that the error associated with estimating the school mean might…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Item Sampling, Measurement Techniques
National Education Association, Washington, DC. – 1975
The National Education Association's Task Force on Testing has stated its opinion that standardized tests are overused. The task force suggests that the application of sampling techniques and a variety of alternatives to current testing practices would accomplish the same purposes. Representatives of the testing industry have indicated that the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Alternative Assessment, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Testing
Ward, Barbara – 1980
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) has completed two assessments of mathematics, the first conducted in 1972-73 and the second during 1977-78. Each assessment surveyed the mathematics achievement of American 9-, 13-, and 17-year-olds, using a deeply stratified, multi-stage probability sample design. This report documents…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Educational Assessment
Kohr, Richard L., Comp.; And Others – 1983
This guide begins with a series of questions and answers that introduce Pennsylvania's Educational Quality Assessment (EQA) Inventory as a 188- to 190-item multiple-choice test for grades 5, 8, and 11. Items are selected from a 400-item bank using matrix sampling procedures. Test results are analyzed at the school level; no individual student…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Affective Measures, Affective Objectives, Basic Skills
Beaton, Albert E. – 1987
In 1982, the Educational Testing Service (ETS) proposed to implement a new, complex design for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). The major features of this design are described in "A New Design for a New Era" (Messick, Beaton, and Lord, 1983). The purpose of this document is to describe the actual implementation of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Data Interpretation
Kohr, Richard L., Comp.; And Others – 1979
This guide begins with a series of questions and answers which introduce Pennsylvania's Educational Quality Assessment (EQA) Inventory as a 188-to 190-item multiple choice test for fifth, eighth, and eleventh grades. Items are selected from a 400-item bank using matrix sampling procedures. Test results are analyzed at the school level; no…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Affective Measures, Affective Objectives, Basic Skills
Education Commission of the States, Denver, CO. National Assessment of Educational Progress. – 1976
For the past six years the National Assessment of Educational Progress has sponsored a national Conference on Large-Scale Assessment, designed to promote and improve communications among educational assessment personnel in State Departments of Education and other agencies. This volume contains most of the papers that were accepted for presentation…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Agency Role, College Entrance Examinations, Educational Assessment
