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Gill, Helen V. – 1990
Scores were compared for two experimental assessment instruments constructed as examples of the techniques used by the Sentence Verification Technique (SVT) of J. M. Royer and others (1979) and the Michigan Educational Assessment Program (MEAP) of the Michigan Department of Education (1987, 1988) to measure reading comprehension as an interactive…
Descriptors: Analysis of Covariance, Comparative Testing, Higher Education, Reading Achievement
Peer reviewedZabrucky, Karen; Commander, Nannette Evans – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1993
The use of a rereading strategy by 20 good and 24 poor comprehenders (undergraduates) to regulate understanding was examined. Poor comprehenders generally reread more, but good comprehenders were better able to direct their rereading selectively to text comprehension problems and had better text memory. (SLD)
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, High Achievement, Higher Education, Learning Strategies
Download full textGafni, Naomi – 1991
Items in the verbal (Hebrew and English) sections of the Psychometric Entrance Test (PET) administered for university admission in Israel were studied for differential item functioning (DIF) between the sexes. Analyses were conducted for 4,354 males and 4,901 females taking Form 3 of the PET in April 1984, and 3,786 males and 3,815 females taking…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Comparative Testing, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Sammon, Susan F. – 1988
A study investigated whether a positive correlation existed between scores obtained by incoming freshman on the recently developed Degrees of Reading Power Test (DRP) and the required Reading Comprehension subtest of the New Jersey College Basic Skills Placement Test (NJCBSPT). The subjects, 217 William Paterson College freshman enrolled in a…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Comparative Testing, Correlation, Educational Testing
Peer reviewedFarley, Mary Jane; Elmore, Patricia B. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1992
Relationships between reading comprehension (RC) and critical thinking skills, vocabulary, and cognitive ability were examined using 3 tests with 165 underachieving first-year college students in a remedial reading class. The Iowa Silent Reading Test's vocabulary subtest best predicted RC. The Developing Cognitive Abilities Test's three subtests…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Tests, College Freshmen, Comparative Testing
Ward, William C.; And Others – 1986
The College Board Computerized Placement Tests are intended for use by two- and four-year colleges in determining whether entering students are prepared for college-level work in English, reading, and mathematics, or whether they need developmental studies. Seventeen colleges and universities participated in pilot testing of the College Board…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Basic Skills, College English, College Faculty
