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Steele, D. Joyce – 1991
This paper compares descriptive information based on analyses of the pilot and live administrations of the Alabama High School Graduation Examination (AHSGE). The AHSGE, a product of decisions made in 1977 and 1984 by the Alabama State Board of Education, is composed of subject tests in reading, mathematics, and language. The pass score for each…
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Difficulty Level, Grade 11, Graduation Requirements
Koretz, Daniel M.; And Others – 1991
Detailed evidence is presented about the extent of generalization from high-stakes tests to other tests and about the instructional effects of high-stakes testing. Data are from grade 3 of a large, high-poverty urban district with large numbers of Black and Hispanic American students. The district's results in 1990 for two tests, designated Test B…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Achievement Tests, Black Students
Parshall, Cynthia G.; Kromrey, Jeffrey D. – 1993
This paper studies whether examinee characteristics are systematically related to mode effect across paper and computer versions of the same instrument, using data from the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) of the Educational Testing Service in its Computer-Based Testing Pilot Study of 1991. The following characteristics of 1,114 examinees were…
Descriptors: Age Differences, College Entrance Examinations, College Students, Comparative Testing

Webb, Noreen; Yasui, Esther – 1992
Whether or not working with more realistic and lengthier problems during instruction would make students better able to solve similar problems on achievement tests was studied for 82 seventh graders (50 in the experimental condition and 32 in the control condition) in general mathematics classes at an urban middle school. The study also…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Comparative Testing, Context Effect, Grade 7
Martin, Nancy K.; Baldwin, Beatrice – 1993
A preliminary investigation was conducted of the construct validity of the Inventory of Classroom Management Style (ICMS), a scale to measure differences in perceptions of classroom management style. The main objective was to determine if the scale reflects differences between novice and experienced teachers. Classroom management is defined as a…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Classroom Techniques, College Students, Comparative Testing
Chandler, Theodore A.; Spies, Carl J. – 1991
Beliefs about the causes of success and failure in academic achievement were compared for students in the United States and Israel. The following 11 attributions were placed randomly in a questionnaire format: (1) mood; (2) skill; (3) knowledge; (4) chance; (5) effort; (6) competence; (7) help; (8) ability; (9) task; (10) bias; and (11) luck. Each…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adults, Analysis of Variance, Attribution Theory
Badger, Elizabeth; Thomas, Brenda – 1989
In the spring of 1988, Massachusetts conducted its second Educational Assessment Program to assess the performance of students in grades 4, 8, and 12 in reading, mathematics, science, and social studies. Students' responses to open-ended questions in one form of the reading test were studied. One-twelfth of the fourth-graders, one-sixteenth of the…
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Figurative Language
Veccia, Ellen M.; Schroeder, David H. – 1990
As a measure of musical aptitude, a new 90-item Pitch Discrimination Test was developed, and its internal structure was examined. Each of the three sections of the test measures an individual's aptitude for pitch discrimination in a different frequency range using square-wave tones generated by a personal computer. A total of 1,303 examinees,…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Adults, Aptitude Tests, Auditory Discrimination

Baghi, Heibatollah; Ferrara, Steven F. – 1989
Use of item response theory (IRT), the delta plot method, and Mantel-Haenszel techniques to assess differential item functioning (DIF) across racial and gender groups associated with the Maryland Test of Citizenship Skills (MTCS) is described. The objective of this research was to determine the: effect of sample size on results from these three…
Descriptors: Black Students, Citizenship Education, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Testing
Gafni, Naomi; Estela, Melamed – 1988
The objective of this study was to investigate differential tendencies to avoid guessing as a function of three variables: (1) lingual-cultural-group; (2) gender; and (3) examination year. The Psychometric Entrance Test (PET) for universities in Israel was used, which is administered in Hebrew, Arabic, English, French, Spanish, and Russian. The…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, College Entrance Examinations, Comparative Testing, Cultural Differences
Benderson, Albert, Ed. – Focus, 1988
The scores of handicapped students taking tests such as the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) or the Graduate Record Examinations are flagged so that admissions officers will be aware that they were achieved under special circumstances. A series of studies was initiated to determine whether special administrations of such tests are comparable to…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, College Admission, College Entrance Examinations, College Students
San Diego City Schools, CA. Planning, Research and Evaluation Div. – 1984
Spring 1984 achievement test results for court-identified, minority isolated (MI) schools in the San Diego Unified School District are reported. The Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills (CTBS) were used to measure progress in the areas of reading, language, and mathematics. Language and math scores trended upwards across grades; reading also…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Comparative Testing
Mowsesian, Richard; Hays, William L. – 1985
The predictive validity of the revised Graduate Record Examination Analytical Test (GRE-A) was compared with the experimental form of the GRE-A, in terms of graduate school admissions as well as advancement to Ph.D. candidacy decisions. Prior to 1974 the Graduate Record Examination included just a verbal and a quantitative test; in 1974 it was…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Cognitive Tests, College Admission, College Entrance Examinations
Fersch, Ellsworth; Smith, Mary – 1972
Six tests were given to the entire sophomore class (120 males, 104 females) at a suburban school north of Boston before and after particiaption in the Project Adventure physical education program, some goals of which were the development of students' self confidence, improved self-concepts, ability to take physical, emotional, and social risks,…
Descriptors: Adventure Education, Apathy, Attitude Measures, Comparative Testing
HENNES, JAMES D.; AND OTHERS – 1965
THE RESULTS OF AN EXPERIMENTAL PROJECT USING THREE SERIES OF ENRICHMENT UNITS ARE SUMMARIZED IN THIS REPORT. EACH PROJECT CONSISTED OF 12 HALF-HOUR VIDEOTAPE PRESENTATIONS IN ASTRONOMY, MATHEMATICS, AND GEOGRAPHY. THE LESSONS WERE PRESENTED TO 570 GIFTED (AVERAGE IQ OF 124) FIFTH AND SIXTH GRADE STUDENTS WHO REPRESENTED THE UPPER 25 PERCENT OF THE…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Astronomy, Attitude Change, Attitudes