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Download full textManpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. U.S. Training and Employment Service. – 1961
The United States Training and Employment Service General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB), first published in 1947, has been included in a continuing program of research to validate the tests against success in many different occupations. The GATB consists of 12 tests which measure nine aptitudes: General Learning Ability; Verbal Aptitude; Numerical…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Career Guidance, Caseworkers, Cutting Scores
Manpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. U.S. Training and Employment Service. – 1961
The United States Training and Employment Service General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB), first published in 1947, has been included in a continuing program of research to validate the tests against success in many different occupations. The GATB consists of 12 tests which measure nine aptitudes: General Learning Ability; Verbal Aptitude; Numerical…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Bookkeeping, Business Skills, Career Guidance
Manpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. U.S. Training and Employment Service. – 1962
The United States Training and Employment Service General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB), first published in 1947, has been included in a continuing program of research to validate the tests against success in many different occupations. The GATB consists of 12 tests which measure nine aptitudes: General Learning Ability; Verbal Aptitude; Numerical…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Career Guidance, Cutting Scores, Evaluation Criteria
Manpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. U.S. Training and Employment Service. – 1962
The United States Training and Employment Service General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB), first published in 1947, has been included in a continuing program of research to validate the tests against success in many different occupations. The GATB consists of 12 tests which measure nine aptitudes: General Learning Ability; Verbal Aptitude; Numerical…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Career Guidance, Cutting Scores, Evaluation Criteria
Manpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. U.S. Training and Employment Service. – 1962
The United States Training and Employment Service General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB), first published in 1947, has been included in a continuing program of research to validate the tests against success in many different occupations. The GATB consists of 12 tests which measure nine aptitudes: General Learning Ability; Verbal Aptitude; Numerical…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Career Guidance, Cutting Scores, Evaluation Criteria
Kosecoff, Jacqueline; Fink, Arlene – 1976
The feasibility of using criterion referenced tests (CRTs) in a large-scale evaluation conducted in an effectiveness evaluation context was investigated. The study began by examining the theory that structures the development and validation of CRTs to discover whether, on theoretical grounds alone, CRTs are suitable or not suitable for large-scale…
Descriptors: Criteria, Criterion Referenced Tests, Definitions, Feasibility Studies
Sjodahl, Lars – 1975
The main purpose of this paper is to draw attention to some facts and ideas that perhaps can help to identify problems or fields for development and research within the evaluation of training. Topics for group discussion are preceded by material on some basic concepts of evaluation and educational measurement. The ratio scale, the interval scale,…
Descriptors: Educational Planning, Educational Programs, Evaluation Methods, Forestry Occupations
Peer reviewedBarnwell, David – British Journal of Language Teaching, 1987
Reviews the status of and beliefs underlying the process of foreign language oral proficiency testing in the United States, including consideration of academic and nonacademic approaches to testing; the status of foreign language study; the need for foreign language speakers; and the reliability and validity of several tests used to assess foreign…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Futures (of Society), Language Attitudes, Language Proficiency
Peer reviewedRhone, Lorna M. – Journal of School Psychology, 1986
Explored the reliability and validity for four self-report anxiety scales: the Test Anxiety Scale for Children, the Alpert-Haber Achievement Anxiety Scale for Children, the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children, and a newly developed Reading Anxiety Scale. Conclusions are drawn regarding the use of these scales with minority-group…
Descriptors: Achievement, Adolescents, Anxiety, Black Students
Peer reviewedYopp, Hallie Kay – Reading Research Quarterly, 1988
Investigates the reliability and validity of tests that have been used to operationalize the concept of phonemic awareness. Indicates that a combination of two tests, one related to each factor, has greater predictive validity for the beginning steps in reading acquisition than does one test alone. (JK)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Factor Analysis, Kindergarten, Kindergarten Children
Peer reviewedLou, Mimi Wheiping; And Others – Sign Language Studies, 1987
Describes a conversation measure for evaluation communicative competence of deaf adolescents and adults in light of: 1) the rationale behind its development; 2) its independence of the subjects' language variety; and 3)its use in a study of 40 deaf adolescents. The interview protocal is give in the Appendix. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Adolescents, American Sign Language, Communicative Competence (Languages), Deafness
Peer reviewedBates, Gary W. – Journal of Reading, 1987
Questions the validity and reliability of the Reading/Everyday Activities in Life (R/EAL) test, which is intended as a self-administered, self-directed, and self-paced test of basic literacy for minority populations and others traditionally singled out by the bias of standardized reading achievement tests. (SRT)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, English (Second Language), Minority Groups
Peer reviewedGrunkmeyer, Virgil – Reading Horizons, 1986
Explains the use of the Dolch List in the lower elementary grades. (FL)
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Primary Education, Reading Diagnosis
Peer reviewedMarsh, Herbert W.; And Others – American Educational Research Journal, 1985
The Self Description Questionnaire II (SDQII) results from 901 Australian secondary school students were factor analyzed and the factors correlated to identify the relationship of self-concept factors to age, sex, and academic achievement. Findings supported the multidimensionality of self-concept and support the construct validity of the SDQII.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Factor Analysis, Factor Structure
Peer reviewedMarkham, Paul – Unterrichtspraxis, 1985
Discusses psycholinguistic models of reading comprehension and presents general guidelines for reading comprehension testing in a second language. The guidelines focus on content validity, construct validity, and predictive validity. Suggestious are given for ways teachers can prepare students for tests and avoid problems in each of the three…
Descriptors: German, Language Tests, Predictive Validity, Psycholinguistics
