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Slocum, Thomas J.; Lieberman, Marcus – Ill Sch Res, 1969
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Achievement Tests, Arithmetic, Performance Factors
Carcelli, Larry; And Others – 1980
The effect on students' scores of different item formats used in standardized reading achievement tests was investigated. Thirty-one bilingual Mexican-American second grade students were given a phonics test using four different formats derived from three standardized reading achievement tests. The formats sampled identical content. A two-way…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Mexican Americans, Performance Factors, Phonics
Peer reviewedOtto, Wayne; And Others – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1971
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Grade 6, Listening Skills
Download full textGallaudet Coll., Washington, DC. Office of Demographic Studies. – 1973
Results of three studies based on Stanford Achievement Test data collected during the National Achievement Testing Program for Hearing Impaired Students in Spring, 1971 are reported. Compared in the first study are performance patterns of hearing impaired students on the Intermediate I and Advanced batteries with patterns of hearing…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Exceptional Child Research, Hearing Impairments
Peer reviewedErb, Tom – Middle School Journal, 2003
Points out the following problems with standardized testing and reforms at the middle school level: (1) misalignment of test-based reforms and standards-based reforms; (2) geographic disadvantages; and (3) disadvantages for learning disabled. Presents example of two students' standardized test scores as illustrations of the non-alignment problem.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Achievement Tests, Case Studies
Wang, Margaret; Lindvall, C. M. – 1969
A group of students normally distributed in aptitude and given the same instruction will produce a normal distribution of student achievement. It has been contended that if each of five primary variables in learning are optimized for each student, all students should be expected to achieve mastery of the material. These variables are (1) aptitude…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Compensatory Education, Elementary School Students
Shapiro, Martin M.; And Others – 1970
Learning behavior of young children of contrasting socioeconomic backgrounds is examined in this study, which poses the question: what are the necessary or sufficient environmental conditions for the establishment of identifiable patterns of behavior? Socioeconomic level (SEL), the principal independent variable, was defined in terms of parental…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Concept Formation, Conditioning, Disadvantaged Youth
Chalker, Rhoda N.; Horns, Virginia – 1986
This study tested the hypothesis that there is no significant difference in reading achievement among children in grades 2 through 5 related to family structure. Researchers administered the Stanford Achievement Test to 119 students in an Alabama city suburban school system. Of the sample, 69 children lived in intact families and 50 lived in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Structure, Latchkey Children
