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Peer reviewedBurket, George R. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1984
The developer of the Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills scaling responds to Hoover's attacks on Thurstone and item response theory scales (TM 510 173). While agreeing that grade equivalent (GE) scores are presently the most appropriate developmental score for reporting elementary grade achievement tests, limitations and inconsistencies in the GE…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Education, Grade Equivalent Scores, Latent Trait Theory
Peer reviewedHoover, H. D. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1984
Grade equivalent (GE) scores for elementary school achievement tests are defended in response to efforts to ban their use. Equal interval developmental scoring methods for the Sequential Tests of Educational Progress and the Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills are criticized. (BS)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Cognitive Development, Elementary Education, Grade Equivalent Scores
Download full textCTB / McGraw-Hill, Monterey, CA. – 1971
A comprehensive assessment was made of the status of elementary education in Missouri in reading, mathematics, language, and study skills. The Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills (CTBS) and the Short Form Test of Academic Aptitude (SFTAA) were administered to a sample of Missouri fourth and sixth graders. For each curricular area, Missouri…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Basic Skills, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedHoover, H. D. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1984
The author addresses issues raised by Burket (TM 510 174) about the Iowa Test of Basic Skills scaling procedures. Further reasons for his criticism of Thurstone scale scores and item response theory scale scores for elementary school achievement tests are given. (BS)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Education, Equated Scores, Grade Equivalent Scores
Amorose, Alice M. – 1987
The 39-day Summer Academic Skills Achievement Program in Franklin County, Ohio, was designed to increase the basic reading and mathematics skills of persons of at least high school age. It enabled clients to earn a full credit and up to $200 ($3.35 an hour) for successfully completing the program. Among the major findings of an evaluation of the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Achievement Rating, Adolescents
Busbee, Cyril B. – 1978
The results and methodology of the South Carolina 1977-78 statewide spring testing program for grades 3, 6, and 11 are presented and discussed. The discussion of the results focuses on a comparison of the 1978 results to national norms, a comparison of 1978 to 1977 results, a performance comparison across grade levels, and a comparison of skill…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Age Differences, Basic Skills
Powers, Stephen; Gallas, Edwin J. – 1978
Fourth, seventh, and ninth grade students in Elementary Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Title I programs were tested with the reading comprehension subtests of the Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills, at each of two levels: on-level for each respective grade, and an easier out-of-level form. Approximately half of these students were found to be…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Comparative Testing, Compensatory Education, Difficulty Level
