A description of a method used with criterion referenced tests which is designed to reduce guessing. (HB)

This book of posttests is designed to accompany the Engine Tune-Up Service Student Guide for Unit 2, Charging System, available separately as CE 031 208. Focus of the posttest is on the testing of the charging system. One multiple choice posttest is provided, that covers the three performance objectives contained in the unit. (No answer key is…

This book of posttests is designed to accompany the Engine Tune-Up Service Student Guide for Unit 1, Battery and Cranking System. Focus of the posttests is the testing of the battery and cranking system. Four multiple choice posttests are provided, one for each of the performance objectives contained in the unit. (No answer keys are provided.)…

Data from three separate experiments were employed. College undergraduates were taught laws of logarithms by means of the same lesson material, and received the same twenty-item posttest after they were instructed under one of three learner control conditions. In the complete learner control condition, students chose both the sequence and number…

Shepard-Kruskal's nonmetric multidimensional scaling procedure (KYST) is used to discern those statistical concepts which are most confusing and/or ambiguous to graduate students, as well as to determine if a series of lectures in statistics will influence students' responses to more closely approximate those of their professors'. An instrument…

BEGINNING WITH A REVIEW OF THE NURSERY SCHOOL MOVEMENT (FROEBEL, MONTESSORI, AND MCMILLAN,) THIS EVALUATION RELATES THE HISTORICAL MATERIAL TO HEAD START, SPECIFICALLY IN CAMBRIDGE MASS. DURING THE SUMMER OF 1965, MATCHED GROUPS OF 33 HEAD START CHILDREN AND 33 NON-HEAD START CHILDREN (CONTROL GROUP) WERE STUDIED. SCHOOL PRE-REGISTRATION LISTS…

This study focuses upon Thomas Gordon's Teacher Effectiveness Training (TET) as it affects student attitudes. Of the 104 third, fourth and fifth graders who participated in the study, 48 were students of teachers who volunteered to participate in a TET workshop and agreed to use the TET model throughout the school year. The remaining 56 students…

This paper reports attempts to alter children's moral judgments via short-term training of roletaking skills in order to assess the degree of relationship between moral reasoning and roletaking. In a three phase procedure, 40 first-grade children (20 males and 20 females) were assigned to one of four experimental groups (empathic, reciprocal,…

This survey is designed to measure student attitudes both before and after an ethnic study unit is taught. It is part of the Louisville Area Ethnic Heritage Studies Project described in ED 150 043. The project materials are designed to foster communication across intercultural/ethnic lines. The test is comprised of 79 statements, such as "A…

IN FALL 1963, ALL FRESHMEN ENTERING THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA GENERAL COLLEGE TOOK THE DIAGNOSTIC READING TEST, AND FROM THEM A 110-STUDENT EXPERIMENTAL GROUP AND A SIMILAR CONTROL GROUP WERE RANDOMLY SELECTED. THE EXPERIMENTAL GROUP STUDENTS WERE ASKED TO ENROLL IN A 1-UNIT EDUCATIONAL SKILLS COURSE, WHICH 67 COMPLETED. READING PRETEST SCORES…

The present study sought to discover the effects on delayed retention of two different degrees of quality of initial instruction for two different amounts of learning time; which combination of quality and time is most likely to be achieved in normal school situations; and the implications for those who design instructional materials. Two…

As the final volume in a 4-volume evaluation report on the University of Massachusetts Non-Formal Education Project (UMass NFEP) initiated in rural Ecuador in 1973, this volume presents appendices to volumes I-III. Appendix A includes the following items: (1) Community Demographic Profile; (2) Description of Introduction to the Community; (3)…

Confidence Weighting (CW), after Ebel, and Multiple Responding (MR), after Coombs, are compared empirically to determine which improved test reliability more in the case of a course pretest derived from the final examination. It was hypothesized that MR, which purportedly measures partial knowledge, would be more effective than CW, which measures…

Developed during a 1968 summer institute for assisting educators of Evanston, Illinois School District 65 to develop some common understandings about crucial integration issues, this set of instructional materials on "Who's the Goat" forms one of a series of teacher "Unipacs." The specific purpose of this Unipac is to help…

Many people take for granted the use of language as a tool for coping with everyday occupational and social problems. However, there are those, such as prison inmates, who have difficulty using language in this manner. Realizing that prison inmates are not always able to communicate effectively through standard patterns of speech and thus are…