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Survey of Basic Skills: Grade 6. Rationale and Content.
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Law, Alexander I. – 1982
This document presents more useful statewide testing as a rationale for a revision to the California Assessment Program (CAP). A brief description of the revision procedures, and an illustrative outline of the skills and concepts covered by CAP are included. Approximately 270 districts and counties participated in the test development process to…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Educational Assessment, Grade 6
An Item Response Curve Model for Matrix-Sampling Data: The California Grade-Three Assessment.
Bock, R. Darrell; Mislevy, Robert J. – New Directions for Testing and Measurement, 1981
California Assessment Program's application of matrix sampling and item response curve theory to the scaling and reporting of state assessment data is described. It is designed to express educational outcomes in an efficient and interpretable form that is both immediately informative and suited to analysis over extended periods of time.…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Educational Assessment, Factor Analysis, Item Banks
The Generalizability of District Means Using Multiple Matrix Sampling.
Pandey, Tej N. – 1978
The concept under investigation was the reliability of estimates of mean scores of groups under various assumptions of multiple-matrix sampling when reliabilities are computed according to procedures based on generalizability theory. Four different cases were compared with respect to the generalizability coefficients depending upon whether pupils…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Analysis of Variance, Basic Skills, Elementary Secondary Education
District-Wide Evaluation of Math Computational Skills.
Keegan, John J., Jr. – 1976
The purposes of the assessment project were to determine when the fourth grade math skills were acquired by the majority of students in the Salem, Oregon public schools, and to compare accomplishment on the criterion-referenced test with accomplishment on a standardized test. Because the project required testing grades 3-6, multiple matrix…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives, Comparative Analysis
Getting Inside the EQA Inventory: Grades 5, 8, and 11. 1983 Edition.
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
Getting Inside the EQA Inventory: Grades 5, 8, and 11. Revised 1978.
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