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Reading Tests and Teachers: A Practical Guide.
Schreiner, Robert, Ed. – 1979
This guidebook puts testing in proper perspective as one aspect of evaluation and leads the test user through a practical discussion about selecting and developing valid, reliable tests. Its primary purpose is to assist classroom teachers, reading consultants, and school administrators in making decisions about measuring student reading…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Reading Ability, Reading Achievement, Reading Diagnosis
Chicago Mastery Learning Reading: Mastery Learning Instruction and Assessment in Inner-City Schools.
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Katims, Michael; Jones, Beau Fly – Journal of Negro Education, 1985
Describes the instructional materials and features that distinguish the Chicago model of mastery learning instruction from other models of mastery learning. Also describes innovative ways to examine the effects of mastery learning instruction, given that school data often are limited to norm referenced tests and are lacking in controls. (Author/GC)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Instructional Material Evaluation, Mastery Learning
Comparing Potential with Achievement: Rationale and Procedures for Objectively Analyzing Achievement-Aptitude Discrepancies in LD Classification.
Hanna, Gerald S.; And Others – 1980
A critical review of the literature dealing with quantification of achievement-aptitude differences for identifying learning disabled (LD) readers revealed that methods developed to date suffer from grave inadequacies. Among the methods considered were those of the following individuals: G. Bond and M. Tinker, M. Monroe, A. Harris and E. Sipay, H.…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Handicap Identification
Evaluation of the ESEA Title I Program [of the] Public Schools [of the] District of Columbia. Final Evaluation Report. 1979-80.
District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, DC. Dept. of Research and Evaluation. – 1981
This report presents the evaluation results of the 1979-80 Title I program in grades one, two, three and seven in the District of Columbia Public School system. Part One describes program objectives and services and the evaluation design and procedures. A description of the population served by Title I is included in Part Two. Achievement gains in…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education
An Empirical Investigation of the ESEA Title I Evaluation Systems' Proposed Variance Estimation Procedures for Use With Criterion Referenced Tests.
Long, John; And Others – 1978
An experiment was performed to evaluate the tenability of the assumption in the Elementary Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Title I proposed variance estimation procedures for criterion referenced tests. The assumption is that the ratio of the local to the national standard deviation for the national sample will be the same for the normed test as…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Assessment, Elementary Education
The Impact of Assessment on Reading Instruction.
Pearson, P. David; Dunning, David – Illinois Reading Council Journal, 1985
Schemes for assessing reading achievement with specific tests have been in use since early in this century. The two driving forces behind the testing movement--scientific objectivity and compulsory education--blossomed in the 1920s and 1930s and continued substantially unchanged through most of the 1960s. In the early 1970s, the idea of mastery…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Curriculum Problems, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods