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Cohen, Edward G.; And Others – 1974
In order to determine the validity of using the Cooperative English Test (CET) for placement in remedial writing, Queensborough Community College initiated a study using the Holistic Reading Method to rate essays written by a random sample of 204 incoming freshman in fall 1973. Three regular English and three remedial English instructors were…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Community Colleges, Correlation, Developmental Programs
[Cieutat, V. J.; Snider, J. C.]
Activities of the Test Development and Research Office (TEDRO), a division of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), are described. The WAEC is an international educational and professional testing organization established to serve its four member countries: Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, and The Gambia. The U.S. Agency for International…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Developing Nations, Higher Education
Ironson, Gail H. – 1978
Four statistical methods for identifying biased test items were used with data from two ethnic groups (1,691 black and 1,794 white high school seniors). The data were responses to 150 items in five subtests including two traditional tests (reading and mathematics) and three nontraditional tests (picture number test of associative memory, letter…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Comparative Analysis, Culture Fair Tests, Difficulty Level
Powers, Donald E. – 1977
Factor analyses of two forms of the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) Aptitude Test were undertaken to better understand the abilities affecting test performance. Results suggest that three global abilities--two verbal and one quantitative--are consistently tapped by the GRE Aptitude Test. Other less prominent dimensions--some of which appear to…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Aptitude Tests, Cluster Grouping, College Entrance Examinations
Marco, Gary L. – 1968
Normative data were obtained on the performance of first-year graduate students on the Aptitude Test and Advanced Tests of the Graduate Record Examinations. The population consisted of students enrolled as full-time graduate students for the first time in the fall of 1964 in a college or university belonging to the Council of Graduate Schools…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, College Entrance Examinations, Error of Measurement
Strassberg-Rosenberg, Barbara; Donlon, Thomas F. – 1975
The purpose of the present study is to examine the April, 1974 Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) for item-content bias between the sexes. By so doing, this study forms a logical extention of the work of Coffman (1961) on the '54 SAT, and Donlon (1973) on the '64 SAT. A study of item-sex bias was conducted using the method of delta-plots (Angoff,…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, College Admission, Comparative Analysis, High Schools
Jaski, Ernest B. – 1970
In order to assess the effect of college experiences on student values and retention, a study was conducted of 848 beginning students at three private and four public two-year institutions in the Chicago area. At the beginning of the academic year, two tests were given: (1) the Activities Index to assess the personality characteristics of the…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, College Environment, Dropouts, Intellectual Development
Manpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. U.S. Employment Service. – 1975
Research which resulted in the development of the United States Employment Service Specific Aptitude Test Battery for use in selecting inexperienced and untrained individuals for training as nurse aids is described. Occupational norms were established in terms of each significant aptitude measure which when combined, predict job performance.…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Cutting Scores, Employment Qualifications, Evaluation Criteria
Rever, Philip R.; Kojaku, Lawrence K. – 1975
This study contrasts the distributions of indices of academic abilities and achievements of entering freshmen classes and of classes that were intact at the end of the first year of college over an eight-year period. The data reported are based on two groups of students, one comprised of all students who completed the American College Test (ACT)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, College Admission, College Freshmen
Fagan, James Stephen – 1975
The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of two treatment variables, mastery and aptitude, on two outcome variables, achievement and retention, as measured by researcher-constructed tests. Seventeen classes of seventh-grade geography students were taught an instructor-developed geography unit with either mastery or nonmastery…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Research
Peister, Phoebe G. – 1976
This study describes and tests the aptitude treatment interaction (ATI) approach to reading. The rationale which forms the basis of ATI--pairing student to method--evolved from the works of Piaget and other psychologists whose studies focus on the general, and cognitive, development of children. From these studies, it was determined that…
Descriptors: Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Basal Reading, Basic Reading, Beginning Reading
Weiss, David J. – 1974
A number of strategies are described for adapting ability test items to individual differences in ability levels of testees. Each strategy consists of a different set of rules for selecting the sequence of test items to be administered to a given testee. Advantages and disadvantages of each strategy are discussed, and research issues unique to the…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Achievement Tests, Adaptive Testing, Aptitude Tests
Manpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. U.S. Training and Employment Service. – 1970
The United States Training and Employment Service General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB), first published in 1947, has been included in a continuing program of research to validate the tests against success in many different occupations. The GATB consists of 12 tests which measure nine aptitudes: General Learning Ability; Verbal Aptitude; Numerical…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Building Trades, Career Guidance, Construction (Process)
Manpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. U.S. Training and Employment Service. – 1965
The United States Training and Employment Service General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB), first published in 1947, has been included in a continuing program of research to validate the tests against success in many different occupations. The GATB consists of 12 tests which measure nine aptitudes: General Learning Ability; Verbal Aptitude; Numerical…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Career Guidance, Cutting Scores, Evaluation Criteria
Manpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. U.S. Training and Employment Service. – 1962
The United States Training and Employment Service General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB), first published in 1947, has been included in a continuing program of research to validate the tests against success in many different occupations. The GATB consists of 12 tests which measure nine aptitudes: General Learning Ability; Verbal Aptitude; Numerical…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Career Guidance, Communication (Thought Transfer), Cutting Scores
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