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North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Accountability/Testing. – 1998
This report provides information on student performance at the state, regional, and school system levels on end-of-grade (grades 3-8 reading and mathematics) multiple-choice tests and end-of-course (high school subjects) multiple-choice tests administered in 1997-98 for 117 public school systems and 35 charter schools. Beginning in the 1992-93…
Descriptors: Algebra, Biology, Civics, Educational Assessment
Whitmore, Evonne H. – 1993
The impact of the Channel One school newscasts on student knowledge of current events and on student attitudes was studied with tenth and eleventh graders in six suburban high schools in the Midwest. Three schools (464 students) received the newscast and the remaining schools (604 subjects) did not. Current events knowledge was assessed with a…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Broadcast Journalism, Current Events, Educational Television
Koffler, Stephen L. – 1984
This research examined the results from direct and indirect writing assessments to determine the most effective method of discrimination. The New Jersey State Department of Education developed a test for ninth-grade students which was designed to measure the ability to apply writing mechanics to written text and to communicate effectively in…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Essay Tests, Evaluation Methods, Graduation Requirements
Wolfe, Edward W.; Manalo, Jonathan R. – ETS Research Report Series, 2005
This study examined scores from 133,906 operationally scored Test of English as a Foreign Language™ (TOEFL®) essays to determine whether the choice of composition medium has any impact on score quality for subgroups of test-takers. Results of analyses demonstrate that (a) scores assigned to word-processed essays are slightly more reliable than…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Scores
PDF pending restorationBaghi, 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
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. – 1982
The provincial results of the English 33 Achievement Test administered June 8, 1982, as part of the Student Achievement Testing Program of Alberta Education are presented in this report. Following a list of the requirements of Part A (written expression), the first section describes the categories used to assess total expression and the scoring…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Educational Assessment, English Instruction
Arth, Thomas O. – 1986
The process of revising and validating two English language tests used by the United States armed forces in hiring foreign nationals overseas is described. Development of the item banks and classification of items are outlined, and field testing in the United States and overseas is described. The tests were the basic and intermediate level…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Comparative Analysis, Correlation, Difficulty Level
Cheek, Jimmy G.; McGhee, Max B. – 1983
An activity was undertaken to develop written criterion-referenced tests for the agricultural production component of Applied Principles of Agribusiness and Natural Resources Occupations. Intended for tenth grade students who have completed Fundamentals of Agribusiness and Natural Resources Occupations, applied principles were designed to consist…
Descriptors: Agribusiness, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural Occupations
Tamir, Pinchas – 1989
An investigation of biology matriculation tests in Israel was undertaken to assess the use of justifications with multiple-choice items and to compare the effect of three item formats on students' performance. More specifically, the study was designed to determine the: (1) extent to which justifications will differ if the correct answer is made…
Descriptors: Biology, College Entrance Examinations, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies
Bruno, James E.; Opp, Ronald D. – 1985
The admissable probability measurement (APM) format was used to score a criterion referenced language arts test administered in an inner city junior high school. Its 30 items covered capitalization, punctuation, parts of speech, and sentence analysis. With APM, students indicate their confidence in their answer choice, and guessing is heavily…
Descriptors: Confidence Testing, Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Testing, Equivalency Tests
LONGO, ALEXANDER A.; MAYO, G. DOUGLAS – 1965
THIS STUDY, PART OF A SERIES INVOLVING A VARIETY OF COURSE CONTENT AND TRAINING CONDITIONS, COMPARED PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION WITH CONVENTIONAL INSTRUCTION TO GAIN INFORMATION ABOUT THE GENERAL UTILITY OF PROGRAMED METHODS. THE PERFORMANCE OF 200 NAVY TRAINEES TAKING 26 HOURS OF CONVENTIONAL INSTRUCTION IN ELECTRICAL CALCULATIONS, DIRECT CURRENT…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Constructed Response, Conventional Instruction, Electronics
Pemberton, W. A. – 1970
This paper is a review of opinion and research concerning the objectivity and relevance of grades and grade averages as measures and as predictors of success. As measures they are ambiguous, reflecting differences in sex, basic temperament, instructors, departments, institutions, as much as levels of competence. And as a predictor of…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academic Achievement, College Environment, College Students
Weber, George – 1974
It is asserted in this paper that some standardized tests do not do a good job of what they claim to do, and for some testing purposes nonstandardized tests are more appropriate or efficient. Under present circumstances, group I.Q. tests should be abolished. They provide no useful information that cannot be gained from achievement tests. And what…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, College Entrance Examinations, Criterion Referenced Tests, Cultural Influences
Jackson, Douglas N.; And Others – 1971
In a comparative evaluation of a standard true-false format for personality assessment and a forced-choice format, subjects from college residential units were assigned randomly to respond either to the forced-choice or standard true-false form of the Personality Research Form (PRF). All subjects also rated themselves and the members of their…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, College Housing, College Students, Comparative Analysis
Elinor, Siaegh-Haddad – 1997
A study investigated the effect of test item type (multiple-choice or open-ended) on performance reading comprehension tests given in both the student's native language and a second language. Subjects were 24 native Arabic-speaking and 38 native Hebrew-speaking students at Haifa University (Israel), all enrolled in a course in English as a second…
Descriptors: Arabic, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics

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