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Dirlam, David; Byrne, Maureen – 1978
The feasibility of standardized assessment of features of children's organization of knowledge and the demonstration of differences in organization between stages of development were investigated. It was possible to standardize developmentally derived instruments, in the same way as empirically derived tests because such evaluations concern the…
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Developmental Tasks, Discourse Analysis, Educational Diagnosis
Download full textMullins, Cecil J.; And Others – 1979
Research on the comparative utility of varying numbers of rating statements per set--using an external criterion of recognition of rater profiles for evaluating "goodness" of the sets--was conducted on 132 noncommissioned Air Force officers. Groups of subjects rated groups of their peers on 20 factors, on a subset of 10 factors, and on a…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Communication Skills, Evaluation Criteria, Job Skills
Sauser, William I., Jr.; And Others – 1979
A bank of psycometrically sound scaled behavioral incidents of college classroom teaching behavior was developed for use in devising performance evaluation scales, teacher training devices, and policy evaluation questionnaires. Using a combination of the critical incident and retranslation methodologies a set of 720 incident descriptions was…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavior Rating Scales, Behavioral Science Research, College Faculty
Elias, Maurice J.; And Others – 1978
The purpose of this paper is to report on the development and validation of the Social Problem Situation Analysis Measure (SPSAM), a measure of the ways in which children understand and attempt to resolve problematic social situations. The SPSAM is an assessment procedure in which children are shown cards depicting sequences of unfolding action in…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Measurement, Communication Skills
Wilcox, Rand R. – 1979
Mastery tests are analyzed in terms of the number of skills to be mastered and the number of items per skill, in order that correct decisions of mastery or nonmastery will be made to a desired degree of probability. It is assumed that a random sample of skills will be selected for measurement, that each skill will be measured by the same number of…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Cutting Scores, Decision Making, Equivalency Tests
Osborn, Julia B. – 1979
The Pre-Reading Assessment Inventory (PRAI) was designed to fill a need for a wide-range, individually administered diagnostic test of a child's prereading skills (especially auditory blending and segmenting), knowledge, encoding and decoding strategies, and understandings about the reading task. The test development was based upon the research…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Diagnostic Tests, Early Childhood Education, Educational Strategies
Koch, William R.; Reckase, Mark D. – 1979
Tailored testing procedures for achievement testing were applied in a situation that failed to meet some of the specifications generally considered to be necessary for tailored testing. Discrepancies from the appropriate conditions included the use of small samples for calibrating items, and the use of an item pool that was not designed to be…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Adaptive Testing, Educational Testing, Higher Education
BROOKS, NELSON – 1964
DESIGNED TO HELP LANGUAGE TEACHERS MEET THE DEMANDS OF THE AUDIOLINGUAL AND CULTURALLY INTEGRATED APPROACHES TO LANGUAGE TEACHING, THIS BOOK DEALS EXTENSIVELY WITH VARIOUS ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE THEORY, LEARNING, AND INSTRUCTION. A REVISION OF THE FIRST EDITION, THERE IS EXTENDED COVERAGE OF SUCH TOPICS AS PATTERN PRACTICE, TEST CONSTRUCTION, AND THE…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Methods, Course Objectives, Cultural Context, Culture
Soto-Padin, Jose L. – 1968
Information on social behavior independence, and intelligence was gathered on 74 Head Start subjects (Anglo, Negro, and Mexican-American) aged 5 to 7 years, for the development of a scale to measure the level of independence in small children. The following hypotheses were tested: (1) Level of independence will differentiate ethnic groups. Ranking…
Descriptors: Achievement, Age Differences, Anglo Americans, Behavior Rating Scales
Daines, James Richard – 1968
The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of low difficulty and high difficulty testing approaches on the informational achievement of two groups of college students enrolled in a power mechanics course. Fifty students were assigned to two groups by a modified random technique, and treatments were randomly assigned to these groups.…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Anxiety, Attitude Change, College Instruction
Parnicky, Joseph J., Ed.; Kahn, Harris, Ed. – 1963
Vocational performance predictors were tested with 437 mildly retarded students (mean age 18 1/2, mean IQ 64) in a five-stage training situation progressing from half to full day and from on to off campus. Findings demonstrated considerable overlap as well as some independence among measures. High degrees of reliability and intercorrelation were…
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Institutional Research, Institutional Schools, Job Training
Walker, Hill M.; Mattson, Robert H. – 1967
Three assessment instruments for disturbed children were developed: a 50-item behavior checklist which functioned as a screening device; a 124-item behavior rating scale which provided frequency measures on indices of the teacher's reaction and response to exhibited behaviors; and a behavioral observation form which recorded task-oriented behavior…
Descriptors: Behavior, Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Rating Scales
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Div. of Occupational Education Instruction. – 1976
Measurement of student achievement is an integral part of the teaching-learning process in Health Occupations Education and is essential for effective guidance of student growth. The measurement devices used in classroom and clinical site instruction should be directed toward stated behavioral objectives, providing valid and reliable evidence of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affective Objectives, Allied Health Occupations Education, Behavioral Objectives
Atkins, Richard; And Others – 1977
To investigate the feasibility of developing hands-on instruments to aid classroom teachers in assessing both entering and exiting skills of the special needs students in vocational education, a continuing project at the University of Pittsburgh was conducted to meet two major objectives: develop a definitive rationale for the design of a hands-on…
Descriptors: Auto Mechanics, Diagnostic Tests, Food Service, Handicapped Students
Burdon, Barry E.; Teasdale, G. R. – 1978
The purpose of the Developmental Record Research Project was to construct an infant and child development record which could be used by paraprofessionals and those without training in test administration to monitor the developmental progress of children from birth to age 5. The project method, described in detail in this report, involved (1)…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Check Lists, Child Development, Developmental Stages
