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Jolly, S. Jean; And Others – 1985
Scores from the Stanford Achievement Tests administered to 50,000 students in Palm Beach County, Florida, were studied in order to determine whether the speeded nature of the reading comprehension subtest was related to inconsistencies in the score profiles. Specifically, the probable effect of random guessing was examined. Reading scores were…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Guessing (Tests), Item Analysis
Download full textHopper, Margaret F. – 2001
This paper provides an overview of the types of testing accommodations used for students with disabilities and presents arguments for and against their use. It begins by discussing student participation in educational assessments and federal requirements concerning the participation of students with disabilities. The types of accommodations are…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Academic Standards, Disabilities, Educational Assessment
Freedman, Sarah Warshauer – 1991
Writing teachers and educators can add to information from large-scale testing and teachers can strengthen classroom assessment by creating a tight fit between large-scale testing and classroom assessment. Across the years, large-scale testing programs have struggled with a difficult problem: how to evaluate student writing reliably and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Informal Assessment, Portfolios (Background Materials)
Hambleton, Ronald K. – 1986
The problem of determining optimal test lengths with fixed total testing time has proved to be a difficult one for criterion-referenced test developers. An algorithm is needed which can be used by test developers to allocate available testing time to maximize the validity of their total criterion-referenced tests or testing programs. To be…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Criterion Referenced Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Psychometrics
Boyd, Thomas A.; Tramontana, Michael G. – 1984
To examine the validity of short forms of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R), the WISC-R was first administered to 106 hospitalized psychiatric patients, aged 8-16. No subjects had a primary diagnosis of mental retardation or learning disability, and one-third were receiving psychotropic medication. WISC-R IQ scores…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Correlation, Elementary Secondary Education
Carlson, Ken – 1986
This paper discusses the content of the social studies tests of the 1981-82 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Selected social studies and citizenship items were administered to 3,200 students aged 9, 13, and 17 and to adults aged 26-35. Twelve sources describing the social studies tests were reviewed, particularly the Citizenship…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Citizenship Education, Content Analysis, Content Validity
