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Download full textSchrader, William B. – 1984
This report provides information on test development, test administration, and score interpretation for the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT). The GMAT, first administered in 1954, provides objective measures of an applicant's abilities for use in admissions decisions by graduate management schools. It is currently composed of five…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Business Administration, College Entrance Examinations, Graduate Study
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. – 1986
Intended for students taking the Grade 9 English Language Arts Achievement Test in Alberta, Canada, this booklet contains the writing portion of the test, which requires the student to write an expository composition in response to four reading selections within the framework of a given situation. The booklet contains space both for planning and…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Educational Assessment, English Instruction, Expository Writing
Weiss, David J., Ed. – 1985
This report contains the Proceedings of the 1982 Item Response Theory and Computerized Adaptive Testing Conference. The papers and their discussions are organized into eight sessions: (1) "Developments in Latent Trait Theory," with papers by Fumiko Samejima and Michael V. Levine; (2) "Parameter Estimation," with papers by…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Adaptive Testing, Branching, Computer Assisted Testing
Prestwood, J. Stephen; And Others – 1985
In order to take advantage of advances in the field of mental measurement, the Armed Forces and the Department of Defense have supported the development of a computerized adaptive version of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) for use in military personnel selection and classification. This report describes the development and…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Armed Forces, Computer Assisted Testing, Data Collection
Texas Education Agency, Austin. Div. of Educational Assessment. – 1986
Beginning with the 1985-86 school year, the Texas Educational Assessment of Minimum Skills (TEAMS) tests have been based on the objectives provided in this publication for teachers and test development specialists. The writing skills objectives for grade 7 require: (1) knowledge of standard capitalization; (2) knowledge of standard punctuation;…
Descriptors: Capitalization (Alphabetic), Educational Objectives, English, Grade 7
Vocational Technical Education Consortium of States, Decatur, GA. – 1988
This notebook contains the following conference presentations: "Identifying and Validating Task Lists by Business and Industry for Test/Test Item Development" (Charles Losh); "Conducting a Task Analysis for Competency-Based Test Item Development" (Brenda Hattaway); "Writing and Reviewing Test Items: Multiple Choice,…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Computer Oriented Programs, Criterion Referenced Tests, Databases
Mislevy, Robert J.; Bock, R. Darrell – 1984
The Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB), a battery of 10 vocational tests, was administered to a national probability sample of nearly 12,000 young people, 15 to 23 years of age. Score distributions from the study were needed by the Armed Services to set performance levels for accepting and assigning recruits. Three psychometric…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Aptitude Tests, Military Personnel, Military Training
Southeast Community Coll., Lincoln, NE. – 1983
Developed by high school teachers and junior college instructors in cooperation with representatives of business and industry, these materials are designed to help students move from class to class, from secondary to postsecondary education, and from school to employment. The materials consist of student outcomes; competencies for job or advanced…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Behavioral Objectives, Building Trades, Competence
Missouri Univ., Columbia. Instructional Materials Lab. – 1983
This unit, one in a series of packets of teacher and student materials for cooperative occupational education (COE) designed for special needs students, is intended to help students examine and develop their values regarding personal relationships with family, friends, marriage partners, and children of their own. The instructor material includes…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Cooperative Education, Family Life, Interpersonal Relationship
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Vocational Education. – 1988
This guide was developed to be used by consumer home economics teachers as a resource in planning and teaching a year-long course in clothing and textiles for high school students in North Carolina. The guide is organized in units of instruction for a first semester course and a second semester course. Each unit contains a content outline,…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Clothing Instruction, Competence, Competency Based Education
Switzer, Deborah M.; Connell, Michael L. – 1989
This paper describes teacher usage of the microcomputer programs Test Analysis Package (TAP) and Student Problem Package (SPP) to analyze students' test item responses. These methods of organizing, analyzing, and reporting test results have proven useful to classroom teachers. The TAP consists of four integrated microcomputer programs to edit,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Managed Instruction, Computer Software
Hammond, Dorothy; Mangano, Joseph – 1986
This manual was developed to help regional administrators and teacher educators conduct inservice training for local teachers who teach writing in preparation for the new General Educational Development (GED) test. The manual is organized in six sections. The first section explains the rationale for the GED writing sample and outlines what the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Essay Tests, High School Equivalency Programs, Holistic Evaluation
Maihoff, N. A.; Mehrens, Wm. A. – 1985
A comparison is presented of alternate-choice and true-false item forms used in an undergraduate natural science course. The alternate-choice item is a modified two-choice multiple-choice item in which the two responses are included within the question stem. This study (1) compared the difficulty level, discrimination level, reliability, and…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Testing
Rengel, Elizabeth – 1986
The Ball Aptitude Battery (BAB) was examined for item bias in a sample of 577 high school students in which males and females, as well as three ethnic groups (Blacks, Whites, and Hispanics) were represented. The objectives of the investigation were: (1) to assess the level of interrater agreement for the judgmental method; (2) to find the level of…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Aptitude Tests, Black Students, Culture Fair Tests
Johnson, Carl I. – 1986
This booklet describes the test development process used to upgrade New Jersey's basic skills competency test, the High School Proficiency Test (HSPT). Ninth-grade students in New Jersey public schools must pass this test of reading, writing, and mathematics skills in order to receive a state endorsed high school diploma. Test development…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives, High Schools
