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Bloom, Diane S. – 1985
The Registered Holistic Scoring Method, which has been used for one year to score the ninth grade writing test of the New Jersey High School Proficiency Test, is described. Registered Holistic Scoring was developed from the previous holistic approach in order to provide more reliable scoring guidelines year after year. Two trained evaluators…
Descriptors: Essay Tests, Evaluation Criteria, Grade 9, Holistic Evaluation
Bloom, Diane S. – 1985
This document presents information to trainers already trained in the Registered Holistic scoring method. It has been developed to assist these trainers in training others in the procedures and the criteria of the new scoring method. The Registered Holistic scoring method was designed and field tested for the ninth grade writing sample component…
Descriptors: Essay Tests, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluators, Grade 9
New Jersey State Dept. of Education, Trenton. – 1988
Results are presented from the administration of the New Jersey High School Proficiency Test (HSPT) to ninth graders in April 1988. The test was administered to 69,364 students in grade 9 and to over 30,000 students in higher grades who had previously failed one or more parts of the examination. This report includes a series of tables summarizing…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Grade 9, High School Students
New Jersey State Dept. of Education, Trenton. – 1989
The New Jersey High School Proficiency Test (HSPT) consists of reading, writing, and mathematics sections and must be passed as one of the requirements for a high school diploma. This report includes a series of tables summarizing grade 10 test results statewide for April 11-13, 1989. The results for 6,352 10th graders are given separately for…
Descriptors: Grade 10, Graduation Requirements, High School Students, High Schools
New Jersey State Dept. of Education, Trenton. – 1989
Results for grade 11 are presented for the New Jersey High School Proficiency Test (HSPT) administered on April 11-13, 1989. The HSPT is a requirement for a New Jersey high school diploma. Data are provided for 3,018 11th graders who took the HSPT for the first time or who did not pass one or more parts when they first took the test in grade 9.…
Descriptors: Grade 11, Graduation Requirements, High School Students, High Schools
New Jersey State Dept. of Education, Trenton. – 1989
Results for grade 12 are represented for the April 11-13, 1989 administration of the New Jersey High School Proficiency Test (HSPT), a requirement for high school graduation for New Jersey students. The test is initially given in grade 9. Data are provided for 762 12th-grade students who were taking the test for the first time or were repeating…
Descriptors: Grade 12, Graduation Requirements, High School Seniors, High Schools
New Jersey State Dept. of Education, Trenton. – 1986
This Technical Report provides descriptions and summary data that assist measurement specialists in assessing the procedures used in developing New Jersey's High School Proficiency Test (HSPT), the technical qualities of the tests, and the statewide results obtained from its use. The data summarized in this report were collected during the various…
Descriptors: Equated Scores, Graduation Requirements, High Schools, Item Analysis
New Jersey State Dept. of Education, Trenton. – 1987
This report presents tables summarizing test results statewide for ninth-grade students who took the New Jersey High School Proficiency Test (HSPT) in April, 1987. The HSPT consists of reading, writing, and mathematics sections, and must be passed as one of the requirements for a high school diploma. Data include percent passing, mean score, and…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Graduation Requirements, High Schools, Mathematics Tests
New Jersey State Dept. of Education, Trenton. – 1987
This report summarizes test results statewide for tenth-grade students who took the New Jersey High School Proficiency Test (HSPT) in April, 1987. The HSPT consists of reading, writing, and mathematics sections, and must be passed as one of the requirements for a high school diploma. The tenth-grade students who were tested consisted of students…
Descriptors: Grade 10, Graduation Requirements, High Schools, Mathematics Tests
Download full textBuddemeier, Richard E.; Raivetz, Mark J. – 1990
In December 1993, children who were in grade 3 in the Trenton Public Schools (New Jersey) in 1985-86 will take a high-risk writing proficiency test to determine whether they will graduate from high school. An emerging study of the writing of the Class of 1995 in Trenton is described as students move toward that test. The activity of studying…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education, Essay Tests, Grade 3
New Jersey State Dept. of Education, Trenton. – 1989
Ninth grade results from the April 1989 administration of the New Jersey High School Proficiency Test (HSPT) are reported. Passing the HSPT, which consists of reading, writing, and mathematics sections, is a high school graduation requirement in New Jersey. In 1989, the HSPT was administered to 67,099 ninth, 6,352 10th, 3,018 11th, and 762 12th…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Grade 9, Graduation Requirements, High School Students
Gentile, Nicholas, Comp. – 1985
One of a series in reading, writing, and mathematics intended to acquaint teachers with the skills tested in each content area on the New Jersey High School Proficiency Test, this booklet on writing presents material that can be used in lesson planning, skills review, and practice testing. Following a report of the writing committee convened to…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Competency Based Education, Content Area Writing
Raivetz, Mark J.; Bousquet, Robert J. – 1987
The administration of the High School Proficiency Test (HSPT) in the Trenton (New Jersey) School District and the impact of a voluntary summer tutorial program on HSPT scores were examined. New Jersey requires that all ninth graders take the HSPT, and that all school districts achieve a 75 percent passing rate to become state-certified. The same…
Descriptors: Cutting Scores, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 9, High Risk Students
Chaplin, Miriam T. – 1988
A study was conducted to identify and analyze the writing strategies of eighth- and ninth-grade black and white students on the 1983-84 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Black students, who were from an urban area in New Jersey, had also taken the New Jersey High School Proficiency Test (NJHSPT). Following an initial study that…
Descriptors: Black Students, Classification, Comparative Analysis, Grade 8
