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Dimitrov, Dimiter M.; Raykov, Tenko; AL-Qataee, Abdullah Ali – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2015
This article is concerned with developing a measure of general academic ability (GAA) for high school graduates who apply to colleges, as well as with the identification of optimal weights of the GAA indicators in a linear combination that yields a composite score with maximal reliability and maximal predictive validity, employing the framework of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Ability, Aptitude Tests, High School Students
Sabers, Darrell L.; White, Gordon W. – J Educ Meas, 1969
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Multiple Choice Tests, Predictive Validity, Scoring

Klein, Alice E. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1978
The Beery Developmental Test of Visual Motor Integration consists of 24 geometric forms that are to be copied into a test booklet. This study demonstrated the ability of the test to predict academic achievement in preschool children. (Author/JKS)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aptitude Tests, Early Childhood Education, Nonverbal Tests
Gonzalez-Tamayo, Eulogio – 1984
This paper analyzes research findings about the role of values and beliefs in aptitude testing. Indications are found that the ongoing controversy over the lack of ethnic, racial, and sex fairness in aptitude testing is rooted in the tests themselves. Test designers, it is argued, are influenced by their socioeconomic position (they are usually…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Beliefs, Cultural Differences, Predictive Validity

Ginther, Joan R. – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 1978
Pretraining on test-taking strategies improved the reliability and predictive power of the Arithmetic Reasoning Test for seventh-grade Chicano students but not for non-Chicano students. Pretraining did not improve the reliability of the Missing Words Test for either group, but appears to have improved the predictive power of this test for both…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Educational Research, Grade 7, Mathematics Education
American School Board Journal, 1985
A school administrator in 1928 expressed a favorable opinion of standardized intelligence and achievement tests, based on research findings correlating test scores with student achievement. Quotations from his article reveal how little the controversy over tests has changed in the intervening years. (TE)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Educational History, Educational Trends

Gliksman, L.; And Others – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1979
Presents results of an investigation into the test-retest reliability of the short form of the Modern Language Aptitude Test, with Canadian samples. (AM)
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, French, Grammar, Language Aptitude
Bayuk, Robert J. – 1973
An investigation was conducted to determine the effects of response-category weighting and item weighting on reliability and predictive validity. Response-category weighting refers to scoring in which, for each category (including omit and "not read"), a weight is assigned that is proportional to the mean criterion score of examinees selecting…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Correlation, Predictive Validity, Research Reports

Smittle, Pat – Journal of Developmental Education, 1993
Describes a study to determine whether traditional paper-and-pencil tests or new computer-adaptive tests were better suited for assessing entering students at Santa Fe Community College, Florida. Focuses on teachers' attitudes toward computerized placement tests (CPTs), relationships between CPT scores and course grades, predictive ability of CPT…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Community Colleges, Computer Assisted Testing, Predictive Validity
Reilly, Richard R.; Jackson, Rex – 1972
Evidence on how the psychometric properties of verbal and quantitative academic aptitude tests are affected when item options are weighted using rather simple conceptual procedures is presented. This is discussed in connection with the scoring methods used on the Graduate Record Examinations. (DG)
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Predictive Validity
Maier, Milton H.; Fuchs, Edmund F. – 1973
Army personnel managers have a continuing need to select, classify and assign to training and jobs large numbers of men who enter the service. The present publication addresses the value of selection and classification testing program in relation to job training success and the suitability of the tests for subgroups of the manpower available to…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Classification, Job Placement
Goslin, David A. – 1967
This review summarizes the major criticisms of standardized tests and testing and attempts an evaluation of the validity of the criticisms. Viewed in the context of type of test, manner of its use, and assumptions regarding its validity, the paper discusses: (1) the imperfect-prediction problem, where predictions of performance are invalidated by…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Educational Testing, Evaluation Criteria
WEITZ, HENRY – 1967
COUNSELORS OFTEN ADMINISTER TESTS OF QUESTIONABLE VALIDITY. IN RELIABILITY STUDIES, EVERY PRECAUTION IS TAKEN TO STABILIZE THE STIMULUS SITUATION. IN ASSESSING VALIDITY, CONCERN CENTERS ON BEHAVIOR UNDER DIFFERENT STIMULUS CONDITIONS. CRONBACH'S THEORETICAL LIMIT FOR A VALIDITY COEFFICIENT OF A TEST IS THE SQUARE ROOT OF THE RELIABILITY…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Career Counseling, Counseling, Counseling Objectives

Bornheimer, Deane G. – College and University, 1984
Performance of limited-English speaking graduate school applicants on the Prueba de Admision para Estudios Graduados aptitude test is compared with Graduate Record Examination results, and the validity of the two tests as predictors of academic success for bilingual doctoral students in the New York University Puerto Rico program is examined. (MSE)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aptitude Tests, Bilingual Students, College Applicants
Weltin, Mary M.; Popelka, Beverly A. – 1983
The composite of Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) subtests used to select applicants for entry-level training in Army clerical schools was evaluated by correlating composite scores with training performance scores. Comparisons were made between the multiple R for this optimal set of predictors and that for the composite of…
Descriptors: Achievement, Aptitude Tests, Armed Forces, Clerical Occupations