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Warren, Jonathan R. – 1978
Faculty from fifteen colleges developed open-ended questions to assess group competence in four areas of learning associated with general education--communication skill, analytic thinking, synthesizing ability, and social/cultural awareness. A secondary purpose was to determine faculty expectations for learning in the general education component…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Basic Skills, Cognitive Processes
Archambault, Francis X, Jr.; And Others – 1979
The development and validation of an instrument designed to measure the quantity of types of instruction delevered to individual students is described. The Classroom Activities Log (CAL) is a teacher-completed record of students' instructional experiences, and may be used to study educational equity questions posed by Elementary Secondary…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Class Size, Compensatory Education, Data Collection
Bateman, Barbara D. – 1968
The Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities (ITPA) is treated in terms of the ability measured, hints for administration and scoring, and questions often asked for each of the nine subtests. Typical profiles are described and analyzed for mentally retarded, kindergarteners, slow learners, culturally disadvantaged, Negroes, good and poor…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Exceptional Child Education, Expressive Language, Handicapped Children
Myers, Charles T. – 1973
High school and college grades are suggested to have the nature of ordinal scales rather than interval scales; hence the median is the appropriate and preferred average, rather than the mean. The use of a median grade point average has some of the major advantages of pass-fail grading. Assuming grades to be ordinal rather than interval data…
Descriptors: Analysis of Covariance, College Students, Equated Scores, Grade Point Average
Lambert, Nadine M. – 1977
Adaptive behavior is defined as the degree to which individuals are able to function and maintain themselves independently, and meet the culturally imposed demands of personal an social responsibility. In 1969, the American Association on Mental Deficiency sponsored the development of the Adaptive Behavior Scale to provide a comprehensive…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Rating Scales, Diagnostic Tests, Educational Planning
Russell, Nolan F. – 1974
Although it is difficult both to determine educational goals and to measure goal attainment, the Educational Quality Assessment Inventory (EQAI) has ambitiously tackled both problems. During a five-year period 45 separate instruments containing over 2000 items were constructed, revised, rejected, and accepted in preparation for the present…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Basic Skills, Confidentiality, Creativity
Russell, Nolan F. – 1975
The Secondary Form of the Educational Quality Assessment (EQA) Inventory is designed for 11th grade students in Commonwealth public schools. Test scales are designed to measure some facet of state quality assessment goals. Along with basic skills, the various instruments examine: (1) social and health habits, (2) feelings toward self and others,…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Basic Skills, Confidentiality, Creativity
Barker, William F.; And Others – 1975
The Preschool Rating Scale (PRS) consists of twenty Guttman scaled items which assess a preschool child's personal-social development. Experience gained over the past two years indicate that it can be used: (1) for screening; (2) for program evaluation; (3) as a guide to the teachers in identifying specific areas of development which may need…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Child Development, Discriminant Analysis, Individual Development
Estes, Gary D.; And Others – 1976
The Phoenix Union High School System has developed a basic skills assessment program in the areas of Reading and Mathematics. Procedures and considerations used in developing the system are discussed. Preliminary results on validity and reliability of the assessment instruments are presented. An example of criterion-referenced test development…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives
Packard, John S. – 1976
Lortie has described teacher sentiments that meld into a structure called the autonomy/equality norm. This norm helps preserve the separation of teaching from organizational and collegial purviews. As part of a larger study which looks for conditions that affect and are influenced by variations in task interdependence among teachers, an effort was…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Behavior Standards, Elementary School Teachers, Group Behavior
Reynolds, William W., Jr.; And Others – 1971
This paper describes an instrument designed to yield quick and reliable data on cognitive processes in classroom interactions; techniques of applying the instrument to classroom situations; findings on the reliability of the instrument; and implications for its uses as a research instrument or, when coupled with the paradigms developed by Nelson,…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Observation Techniques, Cognitive Processes, Feedback
Burgess, Thomas C.; Greis, Naguib A. F. – 1970
The study reported here deals with the problem of determining what testing device can best indicate a foreign student's readiness for satisfactory performance at the college level, especially in courses requiring a good command of reading and writing skills in English. The study considers several standard proficiency tests and devises a formula…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Educational Experiments
Carrington, L. D.; And Others – 1972
The English language arts program in Trinidad and Tobago is handicapped by several conditions. Overcrowding is a problem and reduces the chances for learning. The syllabus in use is outmoded and evidences little understanding of children's language problems. The primary school program is directed toward the Common Entrance Examination.…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, Design Requirements
Oller, John W., Jr. – 1972
Results from research with eye movement photography (EMP) are discussed with a view to defining differences between native-speaker and non-native reading processes. The greatest contrast is in terms of the duration of eye fixations; non-native speakers at the college level require about as much time for a fixation as an average native-speaker at…
Descriptors: College Students, Correlation, English (Second Language), Eye Movements
Muller, Douglas G.; Leonetti, Robert
It is the purpose of the test described in this document to provide a procedure for economically evaluating several aspects of self concept relevant to school success. The test was constructed specifically for use with the child of Spanish or Mexican descent in the Southwest, but it is also appropriate for use with children from the Anglo culture.…
Descriptors: Behavior, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Identification (Psychology)