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Cliff, Norman; And Others – 1978
The research from a four-year project of implied orders tailored testing is summarized. The method of implied orders testing combines the principles of ordinal measurement with the concept of the Guttman scale as an ideal. The basic principle for dichotomous items is that either an item is missed and "dominates" a person or it is answered…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Career Development, Computer Assisted Testing, Group Testing

Hoover, Regina M. – College Composition and Communication, 1979
Describes 58 works dealing with the testing of writing ability and provides the text of the Conference on College Composition and Communication's 1978 resolution on testing. (DD)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Testing, Testing Problems, Writing (Composition)
Hunt, Barbara, Comp. – 1979
This 125-item annotated bibliography gives access to much of research undertaken in the past decade concerning sex bias in testing, e.g., educational achievement tests, career interest inventories, and aptitude tests attacked as being biased against females. The items originated with a computer search of several data bases including the following:…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Elementary Secondary Education, Sex Bias, Test Bias
Wildemuth, Barbara M., Comp. – 1977
Due to the current legislative trend toward competency-based education, and the accompanying minimal competency testing, a variety of local school districts and state education agencies are concurrently developing programs to meet the standards set by their state's legislation. This selective bibliography was compiled in order to aid those…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Basic Skills, Competency Based Education, Equivalency Tests
Williams, Warren S.; Beard, Joseph W. – 1983
This review of literature from the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) database is the second volume on the topic of testing and assessment for the counseling professional; the first volume was published in 1979. The sections on minimum competency tests identify issues of current interest, e.g., the basic issue of definition; the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Assessment
CEMREL, Inc., St. Louis, MO. – 1979
Approximately 100 items are included in this bibliography on competency based education and minimal competency testing. These items, which are arranged in alphabetical order, by title or author, include bibliographies, conference proceedings, monographs, position papers, journal articles, program descriptions, speeches, resource guides, and state…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Annotated Bibliographies, Basic Skills, Competency Based Education
Anderson, Beverly L.; And Others – 1980
This booklet addresses the role of testing in today's public education system, and presents a series of questions and answers which will be of particular interest to school board members, legislators, lawyers and journalists. These questions are grouped into two major categories: (1) test purposes and users; and (2) current testing issues. Current…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Educational Testing, Elementary Secondary Education, Lay People
Los Angeles Unified School District, CA. Div. of Career and Continuing Education. – 1979
Assessment instruments for use with adult learners are summarized; findings of a test use survey of 163 California districts serving adult students are given; and management techniques for administering large and small group tests are suggested. Forms for the evaluation of test instruments and for an assessment survey are appended. Tests reviewed…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Administrative Problems, Adult Education, Adult Students

Sullivan, Patricia M.; Vernon, McCay – School Psychology Digest, 1979
An ideal assessment of hearing-impaired children includes: case history; medical examination; tests (of intelligence, personality, achievement, communication/language skills, and aptitude); neuropsychological assessment to identify learning strengths and weaknesses; and multidisciplinary team staffing and parent-teacher conferences. Twenty-eight…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Communication Skills, Educational Testing, Elementary Secondary Education
Thurlow, Martha; Hurley, Christine; Spicuzza, Richard; Erickson, Ronald – 1996
This bibliography provides abstracts of 28 recent (most were published since 1993) books, journal articles, and other documents concerned with testing accommodations for students with disabilities. The emphasis was on studies examining the effects of testing accommodations on the technical integrity of assessment measures. However, the…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Assessment, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Media and Technology Services. – 1990
This list of resources for use in classrooms and media centers as well as for individual use describes a range of materials about preparing for the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). It does not include every available resource, however. Only items submitted by publishers or vendors within a specified time period and that received positive…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, College Entrance Examinations, Computer Assisted Testing, High Schools
ERIC Clearinghouse on Handicapped and Gifted Children, Reston, VA. – 1975
The annotated bibliography on nondiscriminatory testing contains approximately 75 abstracts and associated indexing information for documents published from 1962 to 1974 and selected from the computer files of the Council for Exceptional Children's Information Services and the Education Resources Information Center (ERIC). Citations are…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Bibliographies, Culture Fair Tests, Examiners

Roberts, Pamela; And Others – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 1982
Examines several possible difficulties in interpreting the results of studies which employ Piagetian tasks, especially conservation tasks, with older individuals. Notes that Piaget's clinical method allows more flexibility in the assessment of competence than do more quantifiable techniques. Examines the possibility of task misinterpretation by…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Literature Reviews, Older Adults
Strand, Theresa – 1978
Twenty-six papers concerning Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I program evaluation--presented at the 1978 American Educational Research Association/National Council on Measurement in Education meeting--are summarized. Speakers from the federal government are: C.T. Cross (see ED 156 695); R.L. Fishbein; and D. Ozenne. State department…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Compensatory Education, Educational Testing, Elementary Secondary Education
Miller, Barbara Soloth, Ed. – 1978
Summaries are presented of the problems and issues of minimum competency testing which were discussed at four regional conferences for political and educational practitioners. The Education Commission of the States sponsored the conferences, but took no official position of support or opposition. Section 1 compares the legislative, practitioner,…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Attitudes, Competency Based Education