The function and structure of a data base system called RIBYT (Review It Before You Test) is described. RIBYT simultaneously controls and associates questions in question pools for many courses of instruction. The data base stores questions created by both faculty and students and is used for formal testing and student self-assessment. The…

All thesis projects (a total of about 800) for the M.A. in linguistics at the University of Lancaster from 1969 through 1978 are listed in this bibliography. Each description includes title, author, date, number of pages, topic categorization, and a 15- to 50-word abstract. The listing is in subject order within chronological order and is not…

The need for a continuing and public review of the purposes, structure, and methods of higher education is discussed. The whole of British higher education is reviewed, its organization described, and its goals both for the individual and for society as a whole are identified. Changes needed in the next two or three decades in the content and…

A cooperative writing assessment program between a college and seven public school districts was designed to demonstrate that the writing skills necessary for adequate composing were not those that could be measured by an objective test. The goals of the program were to (1) analyze the rhetorical skills of sixth and eighth grade students, (2)…

This annotated bibliography lists more than 170 items and is part of a continuing attempt to inform English teachers about recent developments in education. Entries are listed in six categories: bilingual and bidialectical studies; language and verbal learning; literature, humanities, and media; teacher education; testing and evaluation; and…

The Harris Index of Efficiency was used to evaluate the criterion setting (66%) of the Prescriptive Reading Inventory (PRI), a criterion referenced reading test. The subjects, who were involved in a larger experimental study that used the PRI as a criterion measure, were 92 third and fifth grade students. Initial assessment with the Comprehensive…

Survival strategies for college students are provided. Chapter One discusses student attitudes toward college including such areas as the importance of college, the need to attend classes, planning, and best use of homework. In Chapter Two planning four years at college is explored. Choice of courses and professors, effective use of time, the…

Appendix 3 to the report, Measuring Intelligence and Achievement Motivation in Surveys, describes a series of factor analyses of the achievement orientation measures, and a further analysis of strategies used in trying to interpret them. Also a tentative model for the components of achievement orientation is presented. Appendix 4 describes a…

Sixty-one evaluation products developed or published by universities; federal, state, intermediate, and local educational agencies; commercial publishers; private research and development agencies, and others are described, to help potential users identify, select, and obtain useful materials. Potential users include teachers; administrators;…

This paper summarizes the views expressed by various conference participants concerning current screening, diagnostics, and assessment procedures at the preschool, infant school, and junior school levels. The variety of practices employed by different educational psychologists, advisors, and teachers at different levels are discussed. References…

In the early 1970's, a major modification of the introductory service course in statistics at Brigham Young University was implemented, first on an experimental basis and then in all sections by 1974-75. The basic components of the course that distinguish it are: a self-pacing text prepared under the guidance of educational research specialists; a…

The document discusses the decrease of student scores on the citizenship section of the statewide Pennsylvania Educational Quality Assessment (EQA). The document presents an overview of the Pennsylvania State Board of Education goals, describes behaviors that EQA measures, and provides sample questions for fifth, eighth, and eleventh-grade…

A Self Concept Target Game (SCTG) which was designed to measure the level of aspiration of second or third grade children who had been exposed to at least two years of the Responsive Model Follow Through (RMFT) Program, and the field testing of the game are described in this report. The game is played by throwing and pushing a bean bag along a…

The measurement of change in quasi-experimental educational research was discussed. Problems related to measuring change exist to varying degrees in all research designs; these issues are less troublesome in experimental studies because the investigator can manipulate the interest variables and observe their effects on other variables. Measuring…

The Qualitative Analysis of the University of Lethbridge Teacher Education Program (QAULTEP) is designed to follow students from their admission into the university, through the education program, and into their first five years of teaching experience. Although designed initially for analysis of data, it will evolve eventually into a model for…