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Pook, M. Ellen – 1981
Since middle schools vary in their degree of implementation of middle school practices, this research was designed to compare the job satisfaction of middle school teachers with the degree of implementation of these practices. Six teachers from each of Colorado's 50 schools with the name "middle school" were randomly selected to serve as…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Intermediate Grades, Job Satisfaction, Junior High Schools
Pellino, Glenn R.; And Others – 1981
Based on the evaluation of 24 faculty development programs in the United States and other scholarly activities, the benefits of systematic planning and evaluation of faculty development programs are considered. In addition, a set of field tested instruments for planning and evaluation and case studies of institutional programs are presented, and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Decision Making, Educational Objectives, Evaluation Methods
Alley, Gordon R.; And Others – 1980
The study investigated the reliability and validity of professional groups using the Modified Component Disability Instrument to identify/evaluate learning disabled (LD) adolescents. Ss included 166 LD teachers, speech clinicians, remedial reading teachers, school psychologists, school principals, and school counselors. Calculations were made for…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Check Lists, Evaluation Criteria
Hines, Constance V.; And Others – 1981
A study examined the construct validity of six vocational achievement tests used in the Ohio Vocational Achievement Testing Program. (Subject areas covered in the tests were agricultural mechanics, carpentry, diesel mechanics, distributive education for food services personnel, fabric services, and home economics/food service.) In order to…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Agricultural Engineering, Auto Mechanics, Carpentry
Greenan, James P.; Smith, Brandon B. – 1981
A study examined the feasibility, reliability, and validity of two instruments designed to assess the degree to which postsecondary vocational students possessed those generalizable skills that are believed to be functionally relevant to success in a vocational program. The instruments, a student self-rating and a teacher rating form, contained 81…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Communication Skills, Educational Diagnosis, Interpersonal Competence
Mares, Sharon – 1981
PEOPLE (Pruebas de Expresion Oral y Percepcion de la Lengua Espanol) was developed as a test to help distinguish between a language difference and a language deficit in non English proficient (NEP) and limited English proficient (LEP) elementary Hispanic students. PEOPLE was developed, pilot tested in 14 school districts in Los Angeles County with…
Descriptors: Bilingual Special Education, Culture Fair Tests, Elementary Education, Informal Assessment
Dusewicz, Russell A. – 1976
The Pennsylvania Preschool Inventory (PPI) was developed as a straight-forward and efficient measure of the relative cognitive development of the young child, offering an alternative to more complicated, elaborate assessment instruments. Results of the inventory are potentially relevant to both current and future school success of children between…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Number Concepts
Paludi, Michele A. – 1981
The fear of success (FOS) construct in the achievement motivation of women was initially written by undergraduates in which the opening sentence described a male or female who ranked first in a medical school class. From these results, an intrapsychic interpretation of FOS was made. Other researchers, who accepted the sex of the cue character as…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Fear of Success, Females, Motivation
Manpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1970
This revised manual for the General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB) discusses: (1) historical development; (2) item analysis; (3) factor analysis; (4) physical format; (5) general working population norms (ages 18-54); (6) intercorrelations of raw GATB test scores and of GATB aptitude scores; (7) development of norms for specific occupations (tables…
Descriptors: Adults, Aptitude Tests, Citations (References), High Schools
Baldauf, Richard B., Jr.; Klingbergs, Imants E. – 1979
This manual for the Marianas Test of English Achievement (MTEA) provides a description of the tests, directions for administration and scoring, a discussion of the interpretation of scores, and norms based on all 1,780 children in grades 6 through 9 in the Northern Marianas Islands in October 1977 and May 1978. There are two equivalent forms of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Grammar, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Div. of Educational Testing. – 1979
This manual for administrators and teachers describes The Reading Tests for New York State Elementary Schools. The tests, utilizing the Degrees of Reading Power methodology, are designed to measure the most difficult prose text a student can read with comprehension, and are administered to all sixth grade students as part of the Pupil Evaluation…
Descriptors: Grade Equivalent Scores, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades, Reading Achievement
Strickland, Bonnie R. – 1980
Since the development of the Lubin Depression Adjective Check Lists (DACL) in 1965, researchers have used this instrument in many empirical and clinical studies. Scores on the DACL have correlated with other measures of depression and have also been related to personal characteristics of depressed individuals. The DACL has been used in studies to…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Behavior Rating Scales, Check Lists, Clinical Psychology
BERGER, STANLEY I.
THE PURPOSES OF THIS PILOT PROJECT WERE (1) TO ATTEMPT TO EVALUATE THE EFFECT OF THE LOCAL PROGRAM ON BOTH INDIVIDUAL CHILDREN AND THE GROUP AND (2) TO INVESTIGATE THE SENSITIVITY OF THE TEST INSTRUMENTS EMPLOYED IN EVALUATING SUCH A PROGRAM. SIXTY-ONE CHILDREN WERE ENROLLED IN THE LOCAL HEADSTART PROGRAM AND WERE ADMINISTERED THE STANFORD-BINET,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Disadvantaged, Early Experience, Evaluation Methods
Jacobson, Michael; Palonsky, Stuart – 1980
The development of an Attitude-Behavior Scale through an application of Guttman-Jordan facet design is detailed. The attitude scale was constructed to meet the need in law-related education for a valid attitudinal instrument to be used in research settings and in attitude change situations. A legal education program was used as a treatment in a…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Attitude Measures, Behavior Change, Correctional Institutions
Docking, Russell Alan – 1976
A theory of interaction between college students and college faculty based on similarity in style of intellectual functioning was proposed, instruments to measure student and teacher characteristics were developed, and the relationship between achievement and intellectual style similarity was studied. Studies that focus on the impacts of physical,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Style, College Faculty, College Students
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