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Minter, Mary; And Others – 1978
Administrative and technical problems were encountered in carrying out a minimum competency program for high school students in the Austin (Texas) Independent School District. The history of required minimum competency testing was reviewed briefly, and the process of clarifying and operationalizing the requirements was described within the Austin…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Grade Equivalent Scores, Graduation Requirements, High Schools
Download full textDoss, David; Ligon, Glynn – 1985
Upon learning that a form of the Sequential Tests of Educational Progress was incorrectly distributed to an unidentified number of high school students along with an answer sheet pregridded with an alternate test form, the Austin Independent School District performed the following research analyses: (1) scored the tests using the key for each…
Descriptors: Educational Testing, Error of Measurement, Latent Trait Theory, Measurement Techniques
Carroll, John B. – 1986
Two major issues are addressed in this commentary on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading assessment: the design of the reading proficiency scale and interpretation of test data; and the dimensionality of this scale and the possibility of supplying data on specific skill dimensions. An examination of NAEP data and the…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Equated Scores, National Surveys
Holley, Freda M. – 1976
To explain the discrepancy between median scores on the 1976 administration of the California Achievement Tests (CAT) and the Sequential Tests of Educational Progress (STEP) in the Austin Independent School District (AISD), ten technical variables typical of achievement tests were considered as explanations. (1) The STEP may measure different…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Comparative Analysis, Curriculum
Peer reviewedWerts, C. E.; Hilton, T. L. – American Educational Research Journal, 1977
To correct for measurement error in the correlation of student status with achievement gain, the simplex model was used. Results supported the authors' hypothesis that status and gain are correlated. Students who start out as low achievers may need more help over time to maintain the same academic growth as higher achievers. (Author/MV)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Basic Skills, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedHoover, H. D. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1984
Grade equivalent (GE) scores for elementary school achievement tests are defended in response to efforts to ban their use. Equal interval developmental scoring methods for the Sequential Tests of Educational Progress and the Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills are criticized. (BS)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Cognitive Development, Elementary Education, Grade Equivalent Scores
Oaster, T. R. F.; And Others – 1986
This study hypothesized that items in the one-question-per-passage format would be less easily answered when administered without their associated contexts than conventional reading comprehension items. A total of 256 seventh and eighth grade students were administered both Forms 3A and 3B of the Sequential Tests of Educational Progress (STEP 11).…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Difficulty Level, Grade 7, Grade 8
