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Hoadley, Ursula; Muller, Johan – Curriculum Journal, 2016
Why has large-scale standardised testing attracted such a bad press? Why has pedagogic benefit to be derived from test results been downplayed? The paper investigates this question by first surveying the pros and cons of testing in the literature, and goes on to examine educators' responses to standardised, large-scale tests in a sample of low…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Standardized Tests, Developing Nations, Visual Discrimination
Nebelkopf, Edwin B.; Dreyer, Albert S. – Percept Mot Skills, 1970
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Grade 1, Kindergarten Children, Males

Smeets, Paul M. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1994
Compared two procedures for establishing and reversing stimulus control transfer across simple discrimination in children. Results indicated that both procedures were more effective in establishing that, in reversing stimulus control transfer, stimulus contiguity was more effective than match-to-sample training; and both procedures were more…
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Discrimination Learning, Early Childhood Education, Perception
Melowsky, Fred; Ray, Joseph B. – 1975
A comparison of test results on the Visual Discrimination Test was made between a group of 22 reading disabled children and 22 children who were reading on or above grade level. Both groups were of average or above-average intelligence and the two groups were matched for age and sex. The mean age was 10 years and 3 months and all the reading…
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Diagnostic Tests, Elementary Education, Perception Tests
Wood, Nancy E. – 1970
This report describes an experiment concerned with a possible relationship between the inability to learn basic educational skills, such as reading and writing, and the inability to organize incoming stimuli for communication purposes, in spite of adequate intellectual potential. The study had three main tasks. The first problem was to develop a…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Testing, Educational Experiments