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Peer reviewedMiller, William H. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1979
The content validity of the Peabody Individual Achievement Test and the Wide Range Achievement Test was examined with 27 educationally handicapped students (5-9 years old). (CL)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Disabilities, Mild Mental Retardation
Peer reviewedMishra, Shitala P. – Psychology in the Schools, 1981
A study with Mexican-American children showed the internal consistency reliability coefficients for the Wide Range Achievement Test (WRAT) were high and comparable to those reported in the WRAT manual. A high relationship was found between WRAT and Metropolitan Achievement Test scores. WRAT meets reliability and validity requirements with Mexican…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Cultural Influences, Elementary School Students, Intermediate Grades
Peer reviewedGood, Roland H., III; Salvia, John – School Psychology Review, 1988
The content validity of four reading achievement tests was evaluated with respect to third and fourth grade levels of the Pathfinder Allyn and Bacon Reading Program, using 29 third and 34 fourth graders. Instruments evaluated included subtests of the California Achievement Tests, Metropolitan Achievement Tests, Peabody Individual Achievement Test,…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Content Validity, Curriculum Problems, Grade 3
Peer reviewedBristow, Page Simpson; And Others – Reading Teacher, 1983
Reports that reading instructional level scores of a teacher constructed informal reading inventory, the commercially prepared Basic Reading Inventory, the Metropolitan Achievement Test, and students' actual level of placement in books are roughly comparable but that the Wide Range Achievement Test reading subtest places children much higher. (FL)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Informal Reading Inventories, Readability
White, Karl R.; Carcelli, Larry – 1982
The effect on children's test scores of different item formats used in standardized mathematics achievement tests was investigated. In a Utah school, 40 second grade students completed a mathematics computation test using eight different formats derived from five standardized achievement tests. Identical content, taken from the most frequently…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Comparative Analysis, Computation, Elementary School Mathematics
Warshavsky, Belle – 1975
The concurrent validity of the third grade, New York State Pupil Evaluation Reading Program (PEP) reading test was examined with the following standardized tests: the Durrell Silent Reading Test, the Gilmore Oral Reading Test, the Wide Range Achievement Test (WRAT), the Verbal IQ of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC), and the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Cloze Procedure, Elementary School Students, Grade 3
