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Melican, Claire; And Others – Journal of Economic Education, 1997
Compares the performance on the economics Advanced Placement (AP) examination between college students who had completed an introductory course in economics and high school students taking the AP examination for the first time. Discusses possible reasons that the high school students did better than their college counterparts. (MJP)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Advanced Placement Programs, College Bound Students

Polio, Charlene G. – Language Learning, 1997
Investigates the reliability of measures of linguistic accuracy in second language writing. The study uses a holistic scale, error-free T-units, and an error classification system on the essays of English-as-a-Second-Language students and discusses why disagreements arise within a rater and between raters. (24 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Error of Measurement

Gomez, Leo; And Others – Bilingual Research Journal, 1996
Describes the development of an instrument designed to assess the language competence of second language learners by observing natural interactions in transitional bilingual classrooms. A pilot study that assessed the social language of 24 bilingual fifth-graders in a summer math program provided data for examining the instrument's reliability and…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Elementary Education, English (Second Language), Interpersonal Communication
Bartels, Don R. – Diagnostique, 1999
This article describes the Peabody Individual Achievement Test-Revised-Normative Update, an individually administered school achievement measure for students from kindergarten through grade twelve. The test assesses students' knowledge of general information, reading recognition, reading comprehension, mathematics, spelling, and written…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Development, Disabilities, Disability Identification
Ginley, Kristine J.; Giraud, Gerald; Weglarz, Donna – Online Submission, 2006
Because there are few instruments designed to measure the specific behaviors and characteristics instructors expect of college students and how well the majority of their students meet those expectations, an original survey instrument has been created to address that need. Focus group interviews were held, and as a result of those interviews, an…
Descriptors: Measurement Techniques, Focus Groups, College Students, Student Behavior
Bowen, Natasha K. – Social Work Research, 2006
The Elementary School Success Profile (ESSP) is a multidimensional instrument for school-based practitioners that assesses the social environmental domains of neighborhood, school, friends, and family, as well as the well-being, behavior, and school performance of students in the third, fourth, and fifth grade. This article presents the…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Elementary Schools, Social Environment, Well Being
Howell, Colleen J.; Howell, Ryan T.; Schwabe, Kurt A. – Social Indicators Research, 2006
Recent studies investigating need theory and the extent to which money can buy happiness have called for more research within culturally homogeneous samples from developing countries to explore this relationship. We examine wealth as a measure of possessions and savings and relate this to subjective well-being (SWB) among poor indigenous farmers…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Economically Disadvantaged, Indigenous Populations, Agricultural Occupations
McInerney, Dennis M.; And Others – 1995
The goal theory of achievement argues that the goals stressed by schools have dramatic consequences for whether children develop a sense of self-efficacy, or whether they avoid challenging tasks, giving up when faced with failure. It is commonly believed that the goals stressed by Western-oriented schools are inappropriate to indigenous minority…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Cultural Relevance

North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Accountability/Testing. – 1996
The North Carolina End-of-Course Testing Program is based on the assessment of higher level skills in the context of specific subject-area content. These tests inform students, parents, the community, and educators about the achievement of North Carolina students in given areas. This report describes the development and psychometric properties of…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Algebra, Biology, Citizenship Education
Harris, Sandra M. – 1998
This paper explains the process used to validate the construct validity of the Factors Influencing Pursuit of Higher Education Questionnaire. This questionnaire is a literature-based, researcher-developed instrument which gathers information on the factors thought to affect a person's decision to pursue higher education. The questionnaire includes…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, College Choice, College Students, Construct Validity
Gilles, L. Talbot – 1994
This study was conducted to pre-validate the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ), the Learning and Study Skills Inventory (LASSI), and the Test of Reactions and Adaptations to College (TRAC) on a sample of students (N=103) from the population of psychology majors at Champlain Regional College, Saint Lawrence campus. The purpose…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Attitude Change, Attitude Measures, College Faculty
Thompson, Bruce – 1994
Dissertations are an important component of the effort to generate knowledge. Thus, dissertation quality may be seen by accreditation and coordinating-board reviewers as a noteworthy reflection on the quality of doctoral programs themselves. The present study reviews methodological errors within Ph.D. dissertations. The illustrative errors are…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Case Studies, Doctoral Dissertations, Error Patterns
Sennett, Kenneth H. – 1982
Procedures are described to determine reliability and validity of the Brockton (Massachusetts) Battery's Tests of Reading Readiness and the Adaptive Behavior Scales, which were developed to assess performance levels of Hispanic, Portuguese, and Cape Verdean normal and high risk children. Among reasons given for development of the instruments are…
Descriptors: Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Bilingual Education, Cultural Differences, Disabilities
Packard, Richard D.; And Others – 1990
The cooperative efforts of researchers and practitioners in building a model of essential teaching and classroom management skills as part of a process of educational reform are illustrated in this study by a local school administrator and university program directors and professors. The reform effort was part of the Arizona Career Ladder pilot…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrators, Career Ladders, Classroom Techniques
Dixon, John; Stratta, Leslie – 1986
Elaborated as a response to a traditional set of secondary school poetry examinations that are called "sterile and outmoded," this report resulted from a series of seminars held in England by literature educators. The report offers extensive guidelines for modernizing the exams, examples of student critical writing about particular poems, and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Educational Innovation, Evaluation Criteria