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Cabrera, Nolan L.; Cabrera, George A. – Educational Horizons, 2011
Just like all the high-stakes tests that determine students' futures nowadays, The Chorizo Test is a standardized test rooted in the culture of the test makers. It was originally created to be used with students in teacher training programs to sensitize them to the pitfalls inherent in standardized pencil-and-paper tests, such as linguistic bias…
Descriptors: Test Use, Standardized Tests, Social Sciences, High Stakes Tests
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Hills, John R. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1983
Although stanine scores are used by many schools for posting students' test results in permanent records, not all teachers are confident in their interpretation of what stanine scores signify. This quiz and accompanying correct answers and explanations are offered to help make these scores more useful to practitioners. (LC)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Scores, Standardized Tests, Student Records
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Hills, John R. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1983
Percentile scores appear to be the easiest standardized test scores for parents to understand. Yet in this true-false test, Hills reveals commonly held misconceptions about percentile score reports. (LC)
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Norm Referenced Tests, Scores, Standardized Tests
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Hills, John R. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1984
Normal Curve Equivalents (NCEs), a new score system for standardized tests, are used by school districts in reporting results to federal funding agencies. The author uses a quiz format to answer questions on the use of NCE scores. (EGS)
Descriptors: Scores, Scoring, Standardized Tests, Test Interpretation
National Council of Teachers of English, Urbana, IL. – 1974
Contained in this packet on standardized tests and testing in English is a miscellany of materials written by students, teachers, researchers, test makers, and others about the uses, abuses, and misuses of standardized tests. The materials are not intended to be a definitive study of the standardized test in English but rather to provoke…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Norm Referenced Tests, Secondary Education, Standardized Tests
New York State Education Dept., Albany. – 1976
The New York State Physical Fitness Screening Test, an individual performance-type test composed of four different test items, was developed to provide school personnel with an instrument for use in determining the physical fitness of pupils and to screen pupils who are physically underdeveloped. The original norms for the test were obtained in…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Guides, Norms, Performance Tests
Alaska State Dept. of Education, Juneau. – 1986
This handbook is designed to serve as a resource for Alaskan district-level administrators in charge of planning, implementing and monitoring districtwide student assessment programs. The information is divided into 10 chapters, including: (1) aligning assessment with curriculum and instruction; (2) planning an assessment program; (3)…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives, Educational Testing, Program Costs
Puleo, Vincent T.; Lieberman, Billie E. – 1986
This preliminary investigation explored a means of maximizing the use of standardized test results. In addition to the usual package of alpha and ranked norm-referenced test reports, a special series of reports by the California Test Bureau/McGraw-Hill was generated for remedial reading and mathematics teachers. These reports displayed primarily…
Descriptors: Academic Records, Data Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Item Analysis
Hammill, Donald D.; Bryant, Brian R. – 1998
This package contains the Learning Disabilities Diagnostic Inventory (LDDI) and the LDDI examiner's manual. The LDDI is intended to help identify intrinsic processing disorders in children and adolescents. Items represent specific observable behaviors associated with learning disability (LD) in listening, speaking, reading, writing, mathematics,…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Diagnostic Tests, Disability Identification, Elementary Secondary Education
Stager, Susan F.; Green, Kathy E. – 1984
This report discusses the attitudes of Wyoming teachers toward tests and their use. The teachers' educational background in tests and measurement; the use of tests by teachers; and the classroom testing practices of teachers were evaluated. A questionnaire was developed and administered. The results indicated that Wyoming teachers' testing…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Classroom Research, Educational Testing, Elementary School Teachers
Anastasi, Anne; Geisinger, Kurt F. – 1980
How standardized achievement and mental ability tests are used in the schools, and what parents and teachers think about such testing, were investigated. Guided inventories were administered to 207 teachers from 10 schools and to 223 parents from 12 Parent-Teacher Association groups. Intensive individual interviews were conducted with 15 testing…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Feedback
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Div. of Educational Testing. – 1979
This manual for administrators and teachers describes The Reading Tests for New York State Elementary Schools. The tests, utilizing the Degrees of Reading Power methodology, are designed to measure the most difficult prose text a student can read with comprehension, and are administered to all sixth grade students as part of the Pupil Evaluation…
Descriptors: Grade Equivalent Scores, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades, Reading Achievement
Florida Community Coll., Jacksonville. – 1998
This workbook is one of six professional development manuals prepared by experienced adult assessment staff to help new adult education (AE) instructors understand how to administer and interpret standardized tests and how such standardized tests can provide one basis for instructional placement and curriculum choices. It also provides information…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Students
Merrell, Kenneth W. – 1994
The Preschool and Kindergarten Behavior Scales (PKBS) is a behavioral rating instrument for use in evaluating social skills and problem behavior patterns of preschool- and kindergarten-aged children, aged three through six. It is a norm-referenced, standardized instrument developed specifically for use in assessing young children in a variety of…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems, Behavior Rating Scales, Educational Assessment
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Student Evaluation and Records Branch. – 1992
The results of the achievement testing program of the Alberta (Canada) public schools are reported for the June 1991 administrations. The 1991 results help demonstrate what is possible for students in grades 3, 6, and 9 to know and do in science, mathematics, and social studies. For the first time, results are reported in terms of curriculum…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Achievement Tests, Age Differences, Educational Assessment