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LISTER, JAMES L.; OHLSEN, MERLE M. – 1962
A STUDY WAS UNDERTAKEN TO INVESTIGATE THE EFFECTS OF PRETESTING ORIENTATION UPON (1) STUDENTS' MOTIVATION FOR LEARNING TEST RESULTS AND (2) THE CHANGES IN ACCURACY OF SELF-ESTIMATES RESULTING FROM TEST INTERPRETATION. FIVE SCHOOL SYSTEMS WERE SELECTED FOR PARTICIPATION IN THE STUDY. TWO RECEIVED THE ORIENTATION TREATMENT, TWO THE ROUTINE…
Descriptors: Counselors, Elementary School Students, Evaluation, High School Students
Florander, Jesper, Ed.; And Others – 1980
Presented are English summaries of reports and publications originally published in Danish. The summaries are presented in chronological order. Topics include research in areas of problem solving, action research in theory and practice, developmental trends in special teaching, evaluation, research planning - a development process, and special…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
Download full textHansen, Cheryl L., Ed.; Haring, Norris G., Ed. – 1980
The document contains seven papers from the Child Assessment Topical Workshop designed to raise participant awareness of basic assessment issues involved in screening, placement, and measurement of daily performance; to provide specific information about the assessment process, including collecting, organizing, analyzing, and using data; and to…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Decision Making, Diagnostic Tests, Disabilities
Douglass, James B. – 1981
Methods and results relevant to the introduction of item characteristic curve (ICC) models into classroom achievement testing are provided. The overall objective was to compare several common ICC models for item calibration and test equating in a classroom examination system. Parameters for the one-, two- and three-parameter logistic ICC models…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Difficulty Level, Equated Scores
Burger, Gary K.; Cross, Donald T. – 1980
During the last 10-15 years, there has been a burgeoning interest in ethnicity as a variable in research on objective personality assessment, particularly with respect to black-white differences. Racial differences in responses to items on the California Psychological Inventory (CPI) were investigated to identify nonpathological differences…
Descriptors: Blacks, Cultural Differences, Ethnicity, Personality Measures
Price, Lynn, Ed. – 1980
Guidelines are provided to assist New Jersey local school districts in improving and strengthening their graduation policies in accordance with the new law and regulations. Basic skills proficiency requirements have been enacted in Chapter 241, Laws of 1979. This law requires that students successfully pass tests in reading, writing and…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Graduation Requirements, High Schools, Minimum Competency Testing
Harnisch, Delwyn L.; Linn, Robert L. – 1980
Indices of appropriateness of a test for an individual are discussed, and two data sets are evaluated. With the first data set, three indices of test appropriateness are obtained for response patterns on achievement tests from an experimental study of the effects of test anxiety and time pressure with 173 3rd and 4th grade students. Relationships…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Elementary Secondary Education, Response Style (Tests), Social Influences
Harnisch, Delwyn L.; And Others – 1980
The focus of this paper is on improving the measurement of test anxiety. Background information is given about the role of motivation and the importance of testing. The present research is directed at developing a shorter, more reliable and valid measure of test anxiety, thus furthering the predictive, diagnostic, and test program uses of test…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Performance Factors, Student Motivation
Humes, Ann; And Others – 1980
This paper specifies the assessment of those spelling skills that are needed for effective writing by students in grades one through six. An introductory section provides background materials, including explanations of how the skill specifications were selected and how they are presented in this report. In the sections that follow the…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Minimum Competencies, Minimum Competency Testing
Buteau, Magdelhayne F.; And Others – 1979
This bibliography of 138 works published since 1970 deals with evaluating the acquisition of language skills. The work is appropriate for foreign language instruction and English as a Second Language. The bibliography is divided into four sections: (1) controlled experiments; (2) evaluation in general; (3) evaluation in foreign language learning;…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Evaluation Methods, French
Cohen, Ruth I. – 1980
Methods of helping students reduce test anxiety are discussed, including guided fantasy which leads students to imagine a setting in which they feel competent and relaxed. Catastrophic-anastrophic expectations teach that different expectations create different feelings and make students aware that they are in charge of their own attitudes. Anxiety…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Change Strategies, Coping, Expectation
Fitzgerald, Thomas P. – 1979
The Degrees of Reading Power Test was developed to address some existing problems in testing comprehension. The test design reflects the need to consider problems of passage dependency, difficulty of questions, tests for continuous text, and sensitivity to gains. It emphasizes a set of response options controlled for familiarity, a text that is…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Language Skills
Halpin, Gerald; And Others – 1979
The effect of testing on student retention was investigated to determine if it was the actual test taking, the prior preparation for the test, or the combination of studying for and taking the test which actually affected retention. Subjects were undergraduate students (N=90) who were divided into two different study conditions, i.e., test and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Patterns, College Students, Comparative Analysis
Marzano, Robert J. – 1978
A study was designed to identify highly teachable composing skills that have a strong statistical relationship with composition quality across various grade levels. Sample compositions were randomly selected from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (1972). A total of 750 compositions written by 9-, 13-, and 17-year-old-students (250…
Descriptors: Achievement, Basic Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation
Odden, Allan – 1979
In the 1980s, equity concerns will come into conflict with efficiency concerns in school financing. This paper attempts to trace the changing nature of these concerns during the 1970s and to suggest trends for education financing in the 1980s. The first section discusses equity issues related to state school finance reforms and suggests that…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Efficiency, Equal Education, Equalization Aid
