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Your Scores in Basic Skills: Iowa Tests of Basic Skills. AISD Junior High Schools, School Year 1981-82. AISD Senior High Schools, School Year 1981-82.
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Austin Independent School District, TX. – 1982
Designed for junior high and high school students and their parents, this brochure explains the structure, function, and method for interpretation of the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills and the Sequential Tests of Educational Progress. A question and answer format is used to provide information on scope and purposes of the tests, meaning and accuracy…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Educational Testing, Graduation Requirements
Assessment of Social Studies Learning of California Seventh Grade Students: A Report to the California Legislature, as Required by Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 139.
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California State Board of Education, Sacramento. – 1976
The aims of the report are threefold: (1) to assess the general level of social studies learning of seventh grade students in California public schools; (2) to provide a comparison of the general level of social studies learning to those of other curriculum areas; and (3) to provide a comparison of the relative level of social studies learning by…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Comparative Analysis, Educational Assessment, Educational Testing
Zeroing in on the STEP Writing Test: What Does It Tell a Teacher?
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Madaus, George F.; Rippey, Robert M. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1966
The validity of the multiple-choice Sequential Tests of Educational Progress (STEP) Writing Test (1957) was tested by the University of Chicago Center for the Cooperative Study of Instruction. Seven criteria developed by the center to score essay assignments were used to determine the relationship between STEP and actual writing behavior. Of the…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Educational Testing, English Instruction, Evaluation Criteria
A Study of the West Virginia State-County Testing Program.
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Puzzuoli, David A.; Alexander, Donald L. – 1971
In September 1962, the State Board of Education initiated a broad annual study of the academic achievement and scholastic aptitude of West Virginia public schools called the State-County Testing Program. The results of this program in Region II West Virginia schools for 1965-66 - 1969-70 are analyzed to: 1) identify discernable trends; 2) find any…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Accountability, Achievement Tests