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Download full textSchau, Candace Garrett; Kahn, Lynne – 1978
A 21-item group-administered rating scale was designed to measure elementary school students' sex-stereotyped attitudes about adult occupations. The students responded to items by designating who could, as well as who should fill certain occupations. By choosing from five responses (only women, more women than men, about the same number of women…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Career Choice, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
PDF pending restorationArter, Judith A.; Estes, Gary D. – 1978
The validity of the Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills (CTBS) and problems associated with inappropriate norms were investigated in eleven senior high schools in Phoenix, Arizona. CTBS validity was assessed in three ways: (1) correlation between test scores and number of courses taken in that subject; (2) correlation between CTBS scores and…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Achievement Tests, Educational Testing, High Schools
Abramson, Theodore; Gass, Steven – 1978
A detailed and condensed discussion describes the process of test item preparation in general, with special application to the measurement of learning in occupational education. Because the Instructional Support System Occupational Education (ISSOE) has as a policy a emphasis on input from teachers, these guidelines have been prepared to assist…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Behavioral Objectives, Cognitive Objectives, Criterion Referenced Tests
Michigan State Dept. of Education, Lansing. – 1976
It is required by Michigan Public Act 294 that local school districts having an enrollment of 20 or more students of limited English-speaking ability establish and operate bilingual instruction programs, and that the State Board of Education approve a testing mechanism suitable for evaluating the proficiency in English language skills of students…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Administrator Guides, Bibliographies, Bilingual Education
Adams, B. Barbara; Ollila, Lloyd O. – 1977
Designed to explore new reading readiness predictors that are not found extensively in the more commonly used commercial group tests and to develop new indices to measure the level of reading readiness of beginning first graders, a study was undertaken involving 115 children. The factor of sex in reading readiness was also investigated. An…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Language Acquisition
Gonder, Peggy – 1978
This report is an indepth study of the competency movement. It probes current methods of constructing, administering, evaluating, and explaining competency tests; it gives detailed accounts of specific state and local programs; it presents case histories that can enable the administrator and educator to benefit from the experience of others; and…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Competency Based Education, Demonstration Programs, Educational Trends
New South Wales Dept. of Education, Sydney (Australia). – 1978
Designed to serve as an introductory manual to mastery testing in science, this guide provides basic information about a variety of related topics such as mastery learning, criterion-referenced and norm-referenced testing, how to develop a mastery test, when and how to use a mastery test, limitations of mastery tests, and a list of mastery tests…
Descriptors: Achievement, Criterion Referenced Tests, Evaluation Methods, Formative Evaluation
Furr, Jane D. – 1980
Employment characteristics reported 30 months after graduation by over 1,000 respondents to the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 (NLS) were related to high school achievement on the Student Test Book of the NLS. Although respondents did not take a minimum competency test, experts agreed that the Student Test Book would…
Descriptors: Employment, Employment Level, High School Graduates, High Schools
Powell, C. Randall; Kirts, Donald K. – 1980
This book focuses on the concepts, philosophies, principles, and practices utilized by professionals in career planning and placement. The chapters address the following topics: (1) career planning and placement; (2) systems approach to effective career services; (3) student and employer services; (4) career counseling theory and skill…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Planning, Employment Interviews, Guidance Centers
McConnell, Beverly – 1979
Two major evaluations of bilingual education differed significantly in evaluation design and results. The American Institute for Research (AIR) conducted the national impact study for bilingual education and gathered data from many programs. AIR based its study on comparisons of mathematics and language arts achievement of students in bilingual…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Comparative Testing, Control Groups, Curriculum
Tate, Richard L. – 1980
This paper reviews multivariate hypothesis testing, interval estimation, and discriminant analysis procedures for an aptitude-treatment interaction (ATI) analysis and illustrates the procedures with data from a large experimental study of science education at the secondary school level. The treatment variable of interest is time allowed for study…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Discriminant Analysis, Hypothesis Testing
Linde, James L.; Olsen, Kenneth R. – 1980
Current minimum competency testing (MCT) practices noted in the literature through Fall, 1979 are reviewed, and guidance for establishing suitable programs for handicapped students is provided. The provisions of The Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 and Section 504 of the Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1973 are analyzed in terms…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
Chula Vista City School District, CA. – 1977
Teachers in the Chula Vista Rosebank Title IV Project, Individual Diagnosis and Prescription for a Total School, use these test manuals and corresponding teaching guides to measure and improve reading and mathematics skills of students, kindergarten through junior high school. Parts I and III contain tests and directions for administering the…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Teaching, Diagnostic Tests, Educational Diagnosis, Educational Games
Furukawa, James M.; Cohen, Nancy – 1979
The effects of specific testing procedures on learning were studied, using the chunking method of teaching and studying, which involves the learning of small units of information. The size of the unit is related to the student's cognitive processing capacity (CPC)--the amount of material recalled after a brief exposure. Subjects were undergraduate…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Ability, Educational Testing, Grades (Scholastic)
WOLFE, WILLIAM G.; AND OTHERS – 1959
AUDIOMETRIC AND VISUAL PROCEDURES WERE COMPARED ANALYTICALLY AND/OR DESIGNED TO ESTABLISH TEST METHODS FOR TRAINABLE MENTAL RETARDATES IN THE IQ RANGE OF 23-47 AND BELOW THE MENTAL AGE OF 4 YEARS. THE NUMBER OF SUBJECTS WAS 26 FOR THE AUDITORY PROGRAM AND 25 FOR THE VISUAL. EACH OF THE SUBJECTS WAS STUDIED ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS. DATA WERE…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Auditory Tests, Comparative Analysis, Developmental Tasks
