Economic literacy is vital for functioning effectively in today's society. Consumers need to manage their finances, investors need to plan for their future, and voters need to choose among competing economic plans. As students move on to college or enter the workforce, their understanding of the economy will help them become financially…

We examine the history of VMI's use of the Major Field Test as an assessment tool for its Department of Economics and Business. Further, we chronicle how the information gathered from a decade and a half of use has shaped the curriculum, faculty composition and policies within the Department. There is evidence that the policies surrounding how and…

The necessity for relevance in making and using norms is discussed. Two major points are made (1) norms should yield meaning in terms of the particular purpose for which the testing is done; and (2) legitimate and illegitimate general norms abound in test manuals. These principles are presented as practical guides: (1) avoid unjustified general…

A compendium of advice from test experts and schoolmen who are actually involved in releasing test scores. (Author)

Some results from the first year of the national assessment of educational progress project. (RA) Aspect of National Assessment (NAEP) dealt with in this document: Results (Interpretation).

A total of 22 tables are presented exhibiting standard scores with corresponding percentile norms for Idaho schools participating in the Iowa Tests of Educational Development. (CK)

The American College Testing Program (ACT) and the Admission Testing Program of the College Entrance Examination Board are programs in which a large number of Albuquerque Public School (APS) students voluntarily participate. A summary of test data for participating APS students is provided here. For the 1981-82 school year, the scores of APS…

One of a series of reports on the International Project for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (in Mathmatics).

THE STANDARDIZED INSTRUCTIONS IN THIS MANUAL ARE FOR ADMINISTERING THE TEST BATTERY USED WITH THE RESEARCH PROJECT "DEVELOPMENT OF A CURRICULUM AND MATERIALS FOR TEACHING BASIC VOCATIONAL TALENTS," (VT 004 454). THIS TEST BATTERY WAS ADAPTED FROM THE TEST BATTERY DEVELOPED BY THE STAFF OF PROJECT TALENT UNDER THREE SEPARATE CONTRACTS…

Multiple matrix sampling (MMS) procedures were utilized to determine the necessary parameters of a Pearson Type I curve. Empirical norms distributions were approximated by both the Type I model and the negative hypergeometric model. Four existing ITED norms distributions, two subtests and two grades, were approximated by the MMS procedures. Two…

The administration of the National Test-Equating Study in Reading is described as part of a symposium on the study. After contacts with each of the State Departments of Education, district and LEA superintendents were asked to consider the participation of randomly selected schools within their jurisdictions. Upon receipt of approval, school…

One-year and overall national trends in the scores of college-bound high school students on the American College Testing Program's (ACT) college entrance examination and on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) are examined, and data on the ACT subtest score trends by sex and race and on the SAT subtest score trends by state are presented. (MSE)

The results indicate that students enrolled in the first four courses of a foreign language have learned significantly different amounts of the same material, as measured by the CEEB Foreign Language Placement Tests. The relationships between the test scores and course grades indicated that test scores predict successful student performance almost…

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) was created in 1969, and its goals were twofold: to make available the first comprehensive data on the educational attainments of young Americans in 10 learning areas and to measure any growth or decline that takes place in the educational attainments of young Americans. In 7 of the 10…