This bibliography contains nearly 500 references to works on testing, evaluation, and academic achievement, particularly in urban schools. Works cited were developed primarily by large city school districts and include research studies and evaluation reports. These references first appeared in "Resources in Education" between 1975 and 1981, and…

This number of a journal devoted to ideas for teachers of English as a second language (ESL) contains the following articles: (1) "Teaching Grammar as Part of Meaningful Communication" by Raphael Gefen, (2) "Does the School Have a Role to Play in Teaching Environmental Awareness?" by Ora Herzog, (3) "Identifying with…

As part of an on-going evaluation study of the bilingual program at St. Joseph Elementary School in Quebec, Canada, this document reports on its operation during the 1980-81 school year. During this year, pupils in grade one followed a modified social studies program through French, while pupils in kindergarten followed a revised edition of the…

The Language Proficiency Assessment Committees (LPACs) authorized by Congress were given the responsibility of assessing limited-English-speaking students within a school district and making placement recommendations regarding these students to the local school board. This manual provides guidelines and procedures for the establishment of tasks,…

In the past, several latent structure models have been proposed for handling problems associated with measuring the achievement of examinees. Typically, however, these models describe a specific examinee in terms of an item domain or they describe a few items in terms of a population of examinees. In this paper, a model is proposed which allows a…

Features of connected discourse that have been identified by discourse analysis may be applied to the evaluation of oral proficiency in a second language. For example, in the area of semantics, a speaker's control of the cause-result relationship involves, among other things, the ability to produce the different grammatical and lexical…

The first part of the paper presents theoretical arguments in favor of more student-centered approaches to the evaluation of progress in foreign language learning. It is argued that subective self-assessment procedures are not necessarily less reliable than objective tests and that the language student cannot assume full responsibility for the…

The purpose of this study was twofold: (1) to examine the extent of basic numerical skills deficiencies in the population of recruits bound for Apprentice Training, and (2) to examine whether selected Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) test scores could be used to predict numerical skills performance. This project was undertaken by…

The Australian Second Language Proficiency Ratings Scale (ASPLR), a performance-based instrument, is described. The origins of and rationale behind the Scale are discussed. The construction and use of the Scale are detailed. It is hoped that the usefulness of the ASPLR extends beyond the "on-arrival" English as a second language program…

THE STUDY ATTEMPTED TO DETERMINE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE NEED STRUCTURE OF THE TEACHER WITH RESPECT TO ACHIEVEMENT, AFFILIATION, RECOGNITION AND CONTROL, AND THE TEACHER'S PERFORMANCE IN THE CLASSROOM. THERE WERE THREE SEPARATE PHASES TO THIS RESEARCH--(1) INSTRUMENTS WERE DESIGNED TO MEASURE THE NEEDS OF TEACHERS IN THE CATEGORIES MENTIONED…

THE POSSIBILITY OF DEVELOPING A NUMBER OF PAPER AND PENCIL TEST INSTRUMENTS AND TECHNIQUES WAS EXPLORED FOR YIELDING RELIABLE MEASURES OF CURIOSITY AMONG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN. INVESTIGATIONS WERE CONDUCTED IN APPROXIMATELY 40 FIFTH-GRADE CLASSROOMS AND CARRIED OUT IN 2 PHASES--A PREPARATION PHASE AND A TESTING PHASE. IT WAS FIRST NECESSARY…

DIFFERENCES WERE STUDIED AMONG NEUROTIC AND SCHIZOPHRENIC PERFORMANCES, ELICITED BY THE WECHSLER-BELLEVUE ADULT INTELLIGENCE SCALE (PICTURE ARRANGEMENT SUBTEST). TWO GROUPS OF 40 ABNORMAL ADULT SUBJECTS WITH INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENTS BETWEEN 84 AND 116 WERE TESTED. ONE-HALF OF THE SUBJECTS WERE SCHIZOPHRENIC. SUBJECTS WERE REQUIRED TO ARRANGE CARDS…

THIS ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY COVERS CLASSROOM MATERIALS IN THE FIELD OF ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE PUBLISHED BETWEEN THE YEARS 1953 AND 1963. COMPREHENSIVE IN SCOPE, IT ALSO INCLUDES A FEW EARLIER "CLASSICS" IN THE FIELD. THE COMPANION VOLUME IS "PART 2, BACKGROUND MATERIALS, METHODOLOGY." THE ANNOTATIONS ARE DESCRIPTIVE RATHER THAN EVALUATIVE,…

A QUALITATIVE AND CLINICAL ANALYSIS OF COGNITIVE FUNCTIONING WAS DETERMINED BY ADMINISTRATION OF THE STANDFORD-BINET INTELLIGENCE SCALE AND THE WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE FOR CHILDREN TO A SAMPLE OF 65 NORMAL CHILDREN. EXAMINATIONS AND OBSERVATIONS WERE MADE FOR EACH CHILD DURING HIS INFANCY, PRESCHOOL, LATENCY, AND PREPUBERTY PERIODS. ANALYSIS…