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Download full textNew Meridian Corporation, 2020
New Meridian Corporation has developed the "Quality Testing Standards and Criteria for Comparability Claims" (QTS) to provide guidance to states that are interested in including New Meridian content and would like to either keep reporting scores on the New Meridian Scale or use the New Meridian performance levels; that is, the state…
Descriptors: Testing, Standards, Comparative Analysis, Test Content
Direct linkEvers, Arne; McCormick, Carina M.; Hawley, Leslie R.; Muñiz, José; Balboni, Giulia; Bartram, Dave; Boben, Dusica; Egeland, Jens; El-Hassan, Karma; Fernández-Hermida, José R.; Fine, Saul; Frans, Örjan; Gintiliené, Grazina; Hagemeister, Carmen; Halama, Peter; Iliescu, Dragos; Jaworowska, Aleksandra; Jiménez, Paul; Manthouli, Marina; Matesic, Krunoslav; Michaelsen, Lars; Mogaji, Andrew; Morley-Kirk, James; Rózsa, Sándor; Rowlands, Lorraine; Schittekatte, Mark; Sümer, H. Canan; Suwartono, Tono; Urbánek, Tomáš; Wechsler, Solange; Zelenevska, Tamara; Zanev, Svetoslav; Zhang, Jianxin – International Journal of Testing, 2017
On behalf of the International Test Commission and the European Federation of Psychologists' Associations a world-wide survey on the opinions of professional psychologists on testing practices was carried out. The main objective of this study was to collect data for a better understanding of the state of psychological testing worldwide. These data…
Descriptors: Testing, Attitudes, Surveys, Psychologists
Adesope, Olusola O.; Trevisan, Dominic A.; Sundararajan, Narayankripa – Review of Educational Research, 2017
The testing effect is a well-known concept referring to gains in learning and retention that can occur when students take a practice test on studied material before taking a final test on the same material. Research demonstrates that students who take practice tests often outperform students in nontesting learning conditions such as restudying,…
Descriptors: Test Use, Meta Analysis, Effect Size, Learning
Leach, Mark M.; Oakland, Thomas – International Journal of Testing, 2007
Ethics codes are designed to protect the public by prescribing behaviors professionals are expected to exhibit. Although test use is universal, albeit reflecting strong Western influences, previous studies that examine the degree issues pertaining to test development and use and that are addressed in ethics codes of national psychological…
Descriptors: Test Use, Test Construction, Psychologists, Psychology
Peer reviewedMoss, Pamela A. – Assessing Writing, 1994
Discusses the tension between testing and literacy education, the deleterious influences of testing on the curriculum, and the lack of a firm relationship between improved test scores and improved educational experiences for students. Presents two alternative systems for evaluation of writing skills at the local and state level. Demonstrates the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Literature Reviews, Outcomes of Education
Schaeffer, Gary A.; And Others – 1995
This report summarizes the results from two studies. The first assessed the comparability of scores derived from linear computer-based (CBT) and computer adaptive (CAT) versions of the three Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) General Test measures. A verbal CAT was taken by 1,507, a quantitative CAT by 1,354, and an analytical CAT by 995…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Testing, Equated Scores
Marso, Ronald N.; Pigge, Fred L. – 1994
This study was designed to collect and then to compare various educators' perceptions (N=484) of the effectiveness of selected standardized testing program management practices in their schools. It was found that these educators perceived their schools' performance of testing-related practices to be more effective than the schools' overall…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Beliefs, Comparative Analysis, Educational Administration
Peer reviewedDupras, Denise M.; Li, James T. C. – Academic Medicine, 1995
A study investigated performance of 51 second-year internal medicine residents on an objective structured clinical examination and analyzed the test's role in evaluating clinical competence. The examination included nine physical diagnoses and several test-interpretation stations. Performance was analyzed statistically and correlated with…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Competence, Evaluation Methods, Graduate Medical Education
Peer reviewedPike, Gary R. – Research in Higher Education, 1996
A study of 1,568 students in 10 2- and 4-year colleges and universities found that while students' self-reports of academic development and test scores developed from the same test specifications did measure the same constructs, the measures are not necessarily interchangeable. Analyses also produced ambiguous results concerning stability of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development, College Students, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedMuller, Chandra; Schiller, Kathryn S. – Sociology of Education, 2000
Explores variations among states in the relationships of students' educational attainment with family backgrounds, eighth-grade course placements, and high school teachers' assessments of students' academic potential. Focuses on whether states' mandatory testing policies are associated with differences in students' attainment as measured by…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Family Characteristics, Higher Education
Ehrman, Madeline – 1994
The Modern Language Aptitude Test (MLAT) was part of a project examining biographical, motivational, attitudinal, personality, and cognitive aptitude variables in 1,000 adult students preparing at the Foreign Service Institute for overseas assignments, with various subsamples completing different instruments. Data were analyzed using correlation,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Advising, Comparative Analysis, Individual Differences
Resnick, Lauren – 1994
This article explores issues involved in using assessments as a means of defining standards and encouraging efforts to meet them. It compares the European examination system with the present American testing system. It also considers issues that must be faced in defining learning domains in ways that do not encourage narrowly focused training on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Definitions, Educational Assessment
Spolsky, Bernard – 1993
Tests of English for foreign students conducted by the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate (England) and the Educational Testing Service were recognized as equivalent, though different in form and approach, in the 1930s. The underlying goal of the Cambridge certificate of proficiency was control of the English curriculum of…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Comparative Analysis, Educational History, English (Second Language)
Des Brisay, Margaret; Ready, Doreen – 1991
The use of test results as a criterion for evaluating the design of an intensive English language program is examined in one Canadian university program in Indonesia. The study was investigating whether: (1) realistic estimates of training needs were being made; (2) data from other tests would enable better prediction of student outcomes, and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English for Academic Purposes, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Douglas, Dan, Ed.; Chapelle, Carol, Ed. – 1993
Papers from the conference on language testing include: "Foundations and Directions for a New Decade of Language Testing" (Carol Chapelle, Dan Douglas); "A Comparison of the Abilities Measured by the Cambridge and Educational Testing Service EFL Test Batteries" (Lyle F. Bachman, Fred Davidson, John Foulkes); "Judgments in…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Testing, Diagnostic Tests, Educational Trends
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