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Lipe, Gary – 1975
An interactive test analysis system was developed which interfaces a 3M DATRONICS system with a XEROX Sigma 9 computer. The computer programs were written in A Programming Language (APL). The current implementation of the program is characterized by its capability to: read responses from a DATRONIC answer sheet; allow the faculty member the option…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Cost Effectiveness, Data Analysis, Item Analysis
Starkweather, Elizabeth K. – 1974
The Starkweather Originality Test is designed to measure the creative potential of children ranging in age from 3 years, 6 months to 6 years, 6 months. Children younger than 3 years, 6 months can be given the Originality Test if their ability to communicate verbally is satisfactorily demonstrated during the pretest. The test is individually…
Descriptors: Children, Creative Thinking, Creativity, Early Childhood Education
Silverman, Mitchell – 1970
Reported are the first phase activities of a longitudinal project designed to evaluate the effectiveness of Guided Group Interaction (GGI) technique as a meaningful approach in the field of corrections. The main findings relate to the establishment of reliability for the main components of the Revised Behavior Scores System developed to assess the…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Data Collection, Delinquency, Group Therapy
Jacobs, Stanley S. – 1974
Investigated were the effects of two levels of penalty for incorrect responses on two dependent variables (a measure of risk-taking or confidence, based on nonsense items, and the number of response-attempts to legitimate items) for three treatment groups in a 2x3, multi-response repeated measures, multivariate ANOVA (Analysis of Variance) design.…
Descriptors: Confidence Testing, Criterion Referenced Tests, Guessing (Tests), Multiple Choice Tests
Haak, Ruth Adlof; And Others – 1972
The Student Evaluation of Teacher II (SET II), the new instrument presented in this manual, is designed for use in securing student evaluations of teachers below the fourth grade or, with disadvantaged students, through the sixth grade. The manual describes the history, nature, and difficulties of the student evaluation of teachers movement and…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Elementary Education, Factor Analysis, Guides
Pedrini, D. T.; Pedrini, Bonnie C. – 1973
The Vineland Social Maturity Scale (VSMS) is a good measure of adaptive behavior for the pre-school child or the retardate of pre-school ability. It is an excellent clinical technqiue. It is more than a questionnaire and more than a rating scale. We recommend it as an interview and behavior-observation scale. We recommend it for treatment…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Clinical Diagnosis, Evaluation, Interviews
Betz, Nancy E.; Weiss, David J. – 1973
A two-stage adaptive test and a conventional peaked test were constructed and administered on a time-shared computer system to students in undergraduate psychology courses. (The two-stage adaptive test consisted of a routing test followed by one of a series of measurement tests.) Comparison of the score distributions showed that the two-stage test…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Individual Testing, Individualized Programs
Arnold, Arthur A. – 1972
The Concordia Parish, Louisiana school system established a program of computer assisted guidance with the purpose of increasing student's kmowledge and educational resources in the following areas: educational achievement, academic potential and limitations, attitudes and values relating to the educational program, vocational and educational…
Descriptors: Automation, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Science, Data Processing
Berger, Barbara – 1969
The list of entries in this bibliography represents a selected sample, not an exhaustive one, of assessment instruments for prekindergarten and kindergarten children. Some standard instruments which are commercially available are included, but the majority are research instruments used successfully on an experimental basis by investigators. With…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Bibliographies, Instrumentation, Kindergarten
Paulus, Dieter H.; And Others – 1970
The Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT) may represent a breakthrough in the area of creativity research, since they provide a functional instrument for measuring creative potential in children, adolescents, and adults. However, there are certain technical problems with achieving interscorer reliability which may act as a deterrent to the…
Descriptors: Computers, Content Analysis, Creativity, Creativity Tests
Felsenthal, Norman A.; Felsenthal, Helen – 1972
A computer program called TEXAN (Textual Analysis of Language Samples) was developed for use in calculating frequency of characters, words, punctuation units, and stylistic variables. Its usefulness in determining readability levels was examined in an analysis of language samples from 20 elementary tradebooks used as supplementary reading…
Descriptors: Automatic Indexing, Comparative Analysis, Computational Linguistics, Information Processing
GOODWIN, WILLIAM L.; AND OTHERS – 1965
NULL HYPOTHESES WERE TESTED TO DETERMINE THE DIFFERENTIAL EFFECTS OF (1) EXPERIMENTAL ATMOSPHERE AND ABSENCE OF SAME, (2) NOTICE OF TEST (10 SCHOOL DAYS) AND NO NOTICE (1 SCHOOL DAY), (3) TEACHER ADMINISTRATION AND OUTSIDE ADMINISTRATION OF TESTS, AND (4) TEACHER SCORING AND OUTSIDE SCORING OF TESTS. SIXTH-GRADE CLASSES (N=64), EACH FROM A…
Descriptors: Achievement, Arithmetic, Elementary School Students, Environmental Influences
Nadeau, Gilles G.; Comeau, M. A. – 1975
Immediately following the introduction of a new system of grading by letters rather than percentage marking at the University of Moncton, an analysis of evaluation practices as well as an examination of faculty attitudes toward certain grading and evaluation procedures was undertaken. The study sought to establish the state of present practices in…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, College Faculty, Grading, Higher Education
Louden, Allan; Shellen, Wesley N. – 1976
Variations in scoring and feedback provided by professional and nonprofessional debate judges were studied using 197 ballots from the six preliminary rounds of the Big Sky Intercollegiate Forensic Tournament in 1971. Results indicated no significant difference in the sides (affirmative or negative) awarded the decision by the two groups of judges.…
Descriptors: Debate, Educational Research, Evaluation Criteria, Extracurricular Activities
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Foster, Glen G.; And Others – Psychology in the Schools, 1976
Ten special education teachers and two school psychologists scored the Bender-Gestalt protocals of elementary school children using the Koppitz scoring system. The reported correlations between teachers and school psychologists compared favorably to correlations between school psychologists as well as to interrater reliabilities reported in the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Correlation, Elementary School Students, Perceptual Motor Coordination
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