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Lombardi, Karen Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This mixed-methods case study focuses on the third through fifth grade classrooms at a public elementary school in a Midwestern urban school district where the Northwest Evaluation Association's (NWEA) Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) assessment is being implemented. According to the school district, the goals of these tests are: to show…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Test Results, Testing Programs, Student Improvement
Philadelphia School District, PA. Office of Research and Evaluation. – 1976
Guidelines are presented for the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania City-Wide Testing Program. They involve the preparation of pupils for the Administration of the tests, preparation of teachers for administering the tests, some acceptable and unacceptable practices, use and dissemination of test results, and security concerns related to the testing…
Descriptors: Educational Testing, Guidelines, Information Dissemination, Security

Trentham, Landa L. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1975
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Educational Testing, Elementary Education, Grade 6
Eichelberger, R. Tony – 1973
The effects of repeated I.Q. testing were investigated to ascertain the necessity of constructing and using alternate test forms. There were also attempts made to describe selected individual characteristics of subjects who improved the most over the repeated testing. One hundred and forty-five students were tested at one month intervals for three…
Descriptors: Educational Testing, Grade 6, Intelligence Tests, Measurement Instruments
Cluff, Robert B.; Smith, Charles W.
This paper presents guidelines for valid and effective test preparation and presentation. Working on the assumption that teacher secrecy about tests and the subsequent student test-fear are pointless and harmful, this paper outlines some tools for test preparation, such as pretests, teacher file cards as to items covered in class and clearly…
Descriptors: Educational Testing, Pretests Posttests, Teacher Education, Teaching Methods
Horst, Donald P.; Wood, Christine T. – 1976
There are four steps in obtaining test data, each requiring planning and decision-making: assembling students, administering tests, scoring, and recording scores. In assembling students, two cautions are in order. First, for norm referenced tests, students in the treatment group should take the test at the same time of the year as the students in…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Administrator Guides, Data Collection, Educational Testing
Rechter, B. – 1971
This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) that discusses an experimental aptitude test battery that measures aptitude for higher education, developed by the Australian Council for Educational Research. This battery will separate the selection of university students from the measurement of secondary school…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Educational Testing
Mullis, Ina V. S. – 1976
The National Assessment of Educational Progress uses a variety of test items and scoring techniques in measuring the writing achievement of three age groups--nine, thirteen, and seventeen year olds. This document discusses the holistic scoring of essays, including mechanical correctness and grammatical usage; the primary-trait method of scoring,…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Creative Writing, Educational Testing, Elementary Secondary Education
Watkins, James; Wilkinson, Leon D. – 1978
A poorly designed data processing system in a school district testing office may cause a delay in the creation of test results, produce inaccurate results, or utilize more resources than are necessary. Therefore, the authors present a model of a data processing system as a basis for comparing systems in terms of the basic functions they must…
Descriptors: Computer Storage Devices, Data Processing, Educational Testing, Elementary Secondary Education

Haney, Walt – Review of Educational Research, 1984
The research and development of mental (standardized) testing and its relationship to educational practice is traced historically from its pre-World War I roots to its controversial national prominence in the 1970s. How standardized tests have been used in research and in schools is analyzed. (BS)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Educational History, Educational Practices
Pelavin, Sol H.; Barker, Pierce – 1976
A standardized achievement testing program was begun in Alum Rock, California in the fall of 1972 as part of an evaluation of an Educational Voucher Demonstration. During each of the first three years of the demonstration both the form of test administration and the particular level of the standardized achievement test that a student is assigned…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Educational Testing, Elementary Education, Examiners
NJEA Review, 1977
Examines the continuing controversy on test scores and student achievement in New Jersey. (RK)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Basic Skills, Compensatory Education
Matter, M. Kevin; Ligon, Glynn – 1983
Yearly administrations of a standardized achievement test are a part of the educational process in many school districts in the United States. The Systemwide Testing Program in the Austin Independent School District Office of Research and Evaluation has gradually developed a process and support materials whereby the test administrations are a tool…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Curriculum Development, Educational Diagnosis, Educational Testing
Holmen, Milton G.; Docter, Richard – 1971
The application of tests in clinical and counseling work, in educational achievement testing, and in personnel selection is discussed. An analysis of the organizations which comprise the testing industry, including the various publishers and developers of tests and also the test scoring organizations, is given. The concept of an assessment system…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Clinical Experience, Concept Formation, Counseling Services
Ward, Annie W., Ed.; And Others
A number of brief papers are presented to provide guidelines for test directors of school systems. This collection is intended for both newly appointed and experienced directors. Contributions were solicited from practicing directors of testing; the authors include Anthony J. Allen, Margaret Backman, Joan Bollenbacker, Gerald Hanna, James Lawson;…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Administrator Role, Educational Testing, Elementary Secondary Education
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