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Download full textEducational Testing Service, 2011
Choosing whether to test via computer is the most difficult and consequential decision the designers of a testing program can make. The decision is difficult because of the wide range of choices available. Designers can choose where and how often the test is made available, how the test items look and function, how those items are combined into…
Descriptors: Test Items, Testing Programs, Testing, Computer Assisted Testing
Direct linkLombardi, Karen Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This mixed-methods case study focuses on the third through fifth grade classrooms at a public elementary school in a Midwestern urban school district where the Northwest Evaluation Association's (NWEA) Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) assessment is being implemented. According to the school district, the goals of these tests are: to show…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Test Results, Testing Programs, Student Improvement
Peer reviewedBerry, Gene A.; And Others – College Student Journal, 1973
The purpose of the present experiment was to test whether a combination of audio and transparency projection, transparency projection, or the standard paper and pencil method of testing is superior when testing college students on a multiple-choice achievement test in basic psychology. (Author)
Descriptors: College Students, Educational Testing, Measurement Techniques, Test Construction
Achterberg, James E. – Saturday Rev, 1969
Descriptors: Educational Testing, Measurement Techniques, Pretesting, Pretests Posttests
Peer reviewedKennedy, Hubert – American Mathematical Monthly, 1980
Background information about the first mathematics examinations given at Harvard in the academic year 1854-55 is given. The two instructors, Pierce and Eliot, responsible for the innovation are discussed. (MK)
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Educational History, Educational Testing, Higher Education
Philadelphia School District, PA. Office of Research and Evaluation. – 1976
Guidelines are presented for the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania City-Wide Testing Program. They involve the preparation of pupils for the Administration of the tests, preparation of teachers for administering the tests, some acceptable and unacceptable practices, use and dissemination of test results, and security concerns related to the testing…
Descriptors: Educational Testing, Guidelines, Information Dissemination, Security
Peer reviewedBennett, George K.; And Others – Counseling Psychologist, 1970
Several test publishers respond to a charge of racism in testing, made by Robert L. Williams in the previous edition of this journal. Responding are: George Bennett of The Psychological Corporation, John Sommer of Houghton-Mifflin, Leo A. Munday of the American College Testing Program, Samuel Messick and Scarvia Anderson of the Educational Testing…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Disadvantaged, Educational Testing, Minority Groups
Rozycki, Edward G. – Educational Horizons, 2006
"Testing for Justice Rationale" calls for schools to meet the needs of all children. The needs of children can be determined by comparing what children can do with what they can learn to do. Any discrepancy between achievement and potential indicates a need and it is only through adequate testing that these needs can be determined. This…
Descriptors: Testing, Student Needs, Testing Programs, Standardized Tests
Bostow, D. E.; And Others – 1970
Time spent in contact with academic course materials as a function of two testing schedules was measured using college undergraduates in an introductory Educational Psychology course. A multi-manipulation single organism design was employed with all subjects enabling both individual and group analysis. A study room equipped with an adjacent…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, College Students, Educational Testing, Evaluation Methods
Health Services and Mental Health Administration (DHEW), Rockville, MD. Div. of Emergency Health Services. – 1971
This is the second report on the school achievement of children 6-11 years old in the noninstitutionalized population of the United States as estimated from the Reading and Arithmetic subtest data of the Wide Range Achievement Test (WRAT) obtained in the Health Examination Survey of 1963-65. It contains findings by selected demographic and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Children, Comparative Testing, Demography
Pelavin, Sol H.; Barker, Pierce – 1976
A standardized achievement testing program was begun in Alum Rock, California in the fall of 1972 as part of an evaluation of an Educational Voucher Demonstration. During each of the first three years of the demonstration both the form of test administration and the particular level of the standardized achievement test that a student is assigned…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Educational Testing, Elementary Education, Examiners
Maas-de Brouwer, Trude A.; Rossum, Maarten, J.-Th. – Francais dans le Monde, 1978
A description of examinations given at the end of secondary studies. Topics discussed are: the status of secondary education, final examinations--both state and local, the French examination, some critical reflections, and developments in programs. Sample questions from the State examination are included. (Text is in French.) (AMH)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Educational Testing, French, Language Instruction
Morante, Edward A. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1987
Discusses considerations in developing assessment and placement programs: which students should be tested, why admission tests and high school grades are inappropriate for placement, how testing should be carried out, which tests should be used, and how tests should be interpreted. (DMM)
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Testing, Student Evaluation, Student Placement
Matter, M. Kevin; Ligon, Glynn – 1983
Yearly administrations of a standardized achievement test are a part of the educational process in many school districts in the United States. The Systemwide Testing Program in the Austin Independent School District Office of Research and Evaluation has gradually developed a process and support materials whereby the test administrations are a tool…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Curriculum Development, Educational Diagnosis, Educational Testing
PINNOCK, THEODORE J. – 1967
THE PURPOSE OF TESTING IN SEASONAL AND MIGRANT FARMERS' EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS IS NOT FOR MEASUREMENT BUT FOR DIAGNOSIS OF THE DEGREE AND INTENSITY OF HELP NEEDED. TESTS SHOULD BE ADMINISTERED BY THE TEACHER TWO OR THREE WEEKS AFTER CLASS BEGINS WHEN POSSIBLE. THEY SHOULD BE SCORED CAREFULLY, AND THE RESULTS ANALYZED AND INTERPRETED. THE AUTHOR…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Educational Testing, Group Testing
