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Peer reviewedForsyth, Robert A.; And Others – Applied Measurement in Education, 1992
Eighth grade teachers in three local school districts helped customize two standardized norm-referenced tests for ninth graders to investigate effects of deleting some items and adding locally constructed items. Results indicate that percentile ranks for the customized tests could be very different from those for the complete test. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Comparative Testing, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 9
Download full textLang, Michael H.; And Others – 1992
The effect of alternating criterion-referenced tests (CRTs) with norm-referenced tests (NRTs) when evaluating schools was studied in a sample of 242 Louisiana public elementary schools accounting for over 18,000 third graders tested in 1989. The study used five separate multiple regression models, each producing studentized residuals used as…
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Indicators, Elementary Schools
