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Brant, Elaine E. – 1975
The paper states and proves three propositions regarding the usefulness of the ITED (Iowa Tests of Educational Development) in preparing adult basic education students to take the GED tests. The first proposition, that the ITED can be a useful practice test for GED candidates, is supported by the fact that the ITED tests are designed to measure…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Educational Testing, Equivalency Tests, Predictive Measurement
Cervero, Ronald – 1977
A study was conducted to develop an instrument which would require a relatively short time to complete and would predict an adult's probable performance on a five-part General Educational Development (GED) test. It was believed that the cloze procedure (a measure of reading comprehension in which every fifth word is deleted from a reading passage…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Educational Research, Equivalency Tests, Predictive Measurement