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Perkins, Kyle; Duncan, Ann – 1986
This paper reports the results of a behavioral anchoring analysis of the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (Form G, Level 12) vocabulary (41 items) and reading comprehension (56 items) tests. Subjects were 82 sixth-grade students enrolled at the Carterville (Illinois) Grade School. More specifically, a curriculum-referenced interpretation of the ability…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades
Peer reviewedHildebrand, Myrene; Hoover, H. D. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1987
Reliability and validity of "Degrees of Reading Power" test and "Iowa Tests of Basic Skills" reading comprehension and vocabulary tests were compared. Test scores, grades, and assigned reading levels of 191 fifth and sixth graders and 186 sixth and seventh graders in an eastern Iowa school district were used. Reliability and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Grade 6
King, Robert – 1981
The preparation and use of an objective strength analysis report (OSAR) from the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS) are described. The OSAR was designed to answer two needs: (1) a format which allows the school to easily answer the question "which reading objectives need more emphasis and/or better materials or techniques in order to raise its…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Educational Assessment, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods
Samejima, Fumiko – 1984
Simple sum procedure of the conditional PDF approach (plausiblity of distractor function) combined with the normal approach method was applied for estimating the plausibility functions of the distractors of the Level II vocabulary subtest items of the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills. In so doing, the normal ogive model was adopted for the correct…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Elementary Secondary Education, Estimation (Mathematics), Item Analysis
Download full textJohnstone, Whitcomb G. – 1981
Student achievement as reflected in standardized test scores is not a unitary construct, but a set of interdependent components representing degrees of knowledge of various subject areas. The interdependency of achievement components imply a positive feedback process. Weaknesses in one area reinforce weaknesses in others; strengths in one area…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies
Hildebrand, Myrene; Hoover, H. D. – 1986
This study compared the reliability and validity of two different measures of reading ability, the Degrees of Reading Power (DRP) and the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITBS) Reading test and the ITBS Vocabulary test. The data consisted of scores of 377 grade 5 and grade 6 students on these tests, along with their assigned reading levels in the…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Correlation, Grade 5, Grade 6
Tompkins, John F. – 1983
The Des Moines (Iowa) Independent Community School District Chapter I Reading Program served 1,850 students in grades 2-9. Chapter I students displayed gains between pre- and posttesting with the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills and Iowa Tests of Educational Development. The total population of Chapter I students who completed both a pre and posttest…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Attitude Measures, Budgets, Compensatory Education
Hopkins, Kenneth D.; Bracht, Glenn H.
The stability of reading performance, as measured by the Metropolitan Achievement Tests, Iowa Tests of Basic Skills, and Iowa Tests of Educational Development, was studied using students in grades 1 through 7 and grades 9 and 11. A reading vocabulary test and a reading comprehension test are included in all three test batteries. The standard…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Comparative Analysis, Correlation, Educational Research
Bracey, Gerald W.; And Others – 1987
In order to assess the locally developed curricula, the Cherry Creek School District of Colorado developed several objective-referenced tests focused on objectives that instructional staff have identified as important for all district students. The local assessments are designed to work in conjunction with the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITBSs) to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Criterion Referenced Tests, Critical Thinking
Daly, Joseph L.; Richburg, Robert W. – 1984
To gather longitudinal student achievement data from schools utilizing the four-day week, Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITBS) grade equivalent scores were obtained in 1984 from five rural Colorado school districts for four consecutive years--two years prior to and two years following the districts' change to the shortened week. A first analysis…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classes (Groups of Students), Elementary Education, Grade 3
Murray, Marsha – Georgia Social Science Journal, 1990
Introduces ways to assess students' reading ability and improve reading of social studies textbooks. Combines reading scores from Iowa Tests of Basic Skills and individual sessions to understand students' reading ability levels. Uses cooperative reading groups, reading labs, and whole-class oral reading to improve skills. Suggests pre- and…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Activities
Beal, Barry B. – 1987
In spring 1986 Anglo students received higher scores than Blacks or Hispanics on the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITBS), on all subtests and at all grade levels in the Denver (Colorado) Public Schools. This study, by attempting to locate patterns of item response, seeks to identify items in the ITBS that suggest differential pupil achievement by…
Descriptors: Alphabetizing Skills, Basic Skills, Black Students, Elementary Secondary Education
Riverside Publishing Co., Chicago. IL. – 1990
The Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITBS), here summarized for administrators, are intended to provide information about the skills development of individual students and about relative strengths and weaknesses of the instructional program. The ITBS represents the first comprehensive elementary school and secondary school statewide testing program in…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Assessment
