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Johnson, William L.; Nussbaum, Claire – 1984
This document investigates the widely used school climate assessment instrument, the CFK Ltd. School Climate Profile. Part A (General School Climate Factors) was administered by school to a junior high campus (n=257) and a high school campus (n=906) in a major metropolitan area in the Southwestern United States to gather data for administrative…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Educational Environment, Evaluation, Factor Analysis
Tsutakawa, Robert K. – 1984
This report describes new statistical procedures for item response analysis using estimation of item response curves used in mental testing with ability parameters treated as a random sample. Modern computer technology and the EM algorithm make this solution possible. The research focused on the theoretical formulation and solution of maximum…
Descriptors: Ability, Bayesian Statistics, Estimation (Mathematics), Item Sampling
STANLEY, JULIAN C.; WILEY, DAVID E. – 1962
EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURES FOR RATING PERSONNEL WERE INVESTIGATED AS USED IN RESEARCH GENERALLY AND FOR USE IN THE EVALUATION OF TEACHERS. HISTORICAL PROBLEMS AND DEVELOPMENTS IN RATING TECHNIQUES WERE PRESENTED AND COMPARED WITH RANKING TECHNIQUES. STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES FOR ANALYSIS OF RATINGS WERE DETAILED AND RELATED TO VARIOUS TYPES OF RATING…
Descriptors: Design, Experimental Programs, Factor Analysis, Interpersonal Relationship
North Dakota State Dept. of Public Instruction, Bismarck. – 1966
PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING, TREATMENT, AND CONSULTANT SERVICES ARE AVAILABLE. A SCREENING AND REFERRAL PROCEDURE WHICH INCLUDES RECOMMENDED GROUP INTELLIGENCE AND ACHIEVEMENT TESTS IS OUTLINED. EIGHT AGENCIES PROVIDING PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES ARE DESCRIBED BY NAME, SPONSORING AGENCY, SERVICES AVAILABLE, CLIENT ELIGIBILITY, WAITING PERIOD, FEES,…
Descriptors: Community Organizations, Counseling, Counselors, Psychoeducational Clinics
MATHEWSON, ROBERT H.; ORTON, JOHN W. – 1962
THIS STUDY WAS CONDUCTED TO (1) PRODUCE AN INSTRUMENT FOR ELICITING VOCATIONAL IMAGERY FOR USE IN THE EDUCATIONAL-VOCATIONAL ORIENTATION AND COUNSELING OF HIGH SCHOOL YOUTH, AND (2) DEVELOP A SCALE FOR EVALUATING THE MATURITY OF THE VOCATIONAL IMAGERY ELICITED BY THE INSTRUMENT. A PREVIOUSLY DESIGNED INSTRUMENT "WHAT I THINK OF MYSELF"…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Evaluation, High School Students, Measurement Instruments
Borman, Walter C.; Rosse, Rodney L. – 1980
As an alternative for or adjunct to paper-and-pencil tests for predicting personnel performance, the United States Air Force studied the use of peer ratings as an evaluative tool. Purpose of this study was to evaluate the psychometric characteristics of peer ratings among Air Force basic trainees. Peer ratings were obtained from more than 27,000…
Descriptors: Military Personnel, Peer Evaluation, Personnel Evaluation, Personnel Selection
LaBelle, Thomas; And Others – 1979
This 1978 report advises concerned persons and agencies of the nature and extent of plans developed by Juarez and Associates to use qualitative data in the evaluation of the Head Start Bilingual Bicultural Curriculum Development Project. Contractual responsibilities, multimethod data collection strategies, objectives and procedures are described.…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Curriculum Evaluation, Data Analysis, Data Collection
JENKINS, W.O.; AND OTHERS – 1966
THIS PAPER PRESENTS INDEFINITIVE APPROACHES FOR THE BEHAVIORAL ASSESSMENT OF PRESCHOOL CHILDREN. IT REVIEWS THE STATE OF THE ART OF BEHAVIOR MEASUREMENT OF PRESCHOOL CHILDREN AND SUGGESTS SOME NEW OR MODIFIED MEASURES. AN INTRODUCTORY OVERVIEW DISCUSSES REASONS FOR BEHAVIOR ASSESSMENT AND FACTORS WHICH AFFECT ANY BEHAVIORAL APPROACH. SOME…
Descriptors: Behavior, Behavior Rating Scales, Behavior Theories, Behavioral Science Research
SEIBERT, WARREN F.; REID, J. CHRISTOPHER – 1967
THREE STUDIES INVESTIGATE AUDITORY AND VISUAL MEMORY ABILITIES AND THEIR POTENTIAL ROLES AS INSTRUCTIONAL AND PERSONNEL PREDICTORS. STUDY I PRESENTS TO 185 COLLEGE FRESHMEN 42 ABILITY TESTS FROM WHICH SEVEN MAJOR ROTATED FACTORS EMERGE--SERIAL MEMORY SPAN, SERIAL INTEGRATION, ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY, ABSTRACTS FROM SOCIAL INTERACTION SITUATIONS, VERBAL…
Descriptors: Auditory Stimuli, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Measurement, Factor Analysis
Schaffner, Paul E.; Darlington, Richard B. – 1977
Most methods of personality scale construction have clear statistical disadvantages. A hybrid method (Darlington and Bishop, 1966) was found to increase scale validity more than any other method, with large item pools. A simple modification of the Darlington-Bishop method (algebraically and conceptually similar to ridge regression, but…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Diagnostic Tests, Measurement Instruments, Personality Measures
Greenberger, Ellen; And Others – 1974
The educational community lacks tools for assessing the nonacademic growth of students--their growth as persons and as social beings. This paper describes the development of an attitude inventory based on an interdisciplinary model of psychosocial maturity. The Psychosocial Maturity Inventory, a self-report instrument, is comprised of nine…
Descriptors: Child Development, Measurement Instruments, Psychometrics, Rating Scales
Gentile, Augustine; DiFrancesca, Sal – 1970
An item analysis of the Stanford Achievement Test performance of about 12,000 students in schools and classes for the hearing impaired is presented. Tables show the percentage of correct answers to each question, as well as a summary of the responses for each sub-test and major categories within some sub-tests. Because the test was developed for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Exceptional Child Research, Hearing Impairments
Jones, Bert; And Others – 1969
This joint investigation involving the Omaha Job Corps Center for Women and the Marquette Job Corps Center for Women assessed the remedial reading programs of the two centers. A major objective was to provide Job Corps norms for the Gates-MacGinitie Reading Test, Survey E, forms 1M and 2M. Each center designated control and experimental groups.…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, Group Norms, Job Training, Poverty Programs
Sigel, Irving E.; Olmsted, Patricia P. – 1969
This study analyzes the Object Categorization Test (OCT) and the Picture Categorization Test (PCT) to provide (1) psychometric analysis of the tests, (2) substantive analysis detailing variation in performance level as a function of age, race, class, and sex, and (3) normative data yielding frequencies of various score patterns. Data was taken…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Classification, Cognitive Development
Lieberman, Marcus – 1973
When subjects are given open-ended stimulus situations allowing for responses at all possible stages of a developmental theory, the stage scores of individuals for each situation can be treated as scores on polychotomous items. Extensions of the concepts of difficulty and discriminating power from the dichotomous case to this ordinal category…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Behavior Theories, Developmental Psychology, Difficulty Level
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