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Kuehl, Raymond – 1978
The study focuses on the development of a valid and reliable instrument to measure independent variables of cooperating teacher behaviors. The secondary purpose was to determine if any of the demographic variables pertaining to the student teacher and the cooperating teacher were important in assessing the performance levels of cooperating…
Descriptors: Cooperating Teachers, Factor Analysis, Hypothesis Testing, Measurement Instruments
Pine, Steven M. – 1976
Latent trait theory is used as a basis for a definition of item bias, and an experiment is described in which a test of vocabulary items was not found to be biased when administered to two groups of high school students, one group of 58 black students and the other 168 white students. The experiment for the detection of bias began with separate…
Descriptors: Culture Fair Tests, Difficulty Level, Factor Analysis, Item Analysis
Evans, Richard M.; Surkan, Alvin J. – 1977
Students undergoing a mastery-variable time-variable undergraduate educational psychology course were studied in order to determine the effects of level of mastery chosen (by the students for a final grade) on time taken to reach criterion level over five course examinations. When equated for trials to criterion, no such grade aspiration effect…
Descriptors: College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Psychology
Download full textGreene, Myrna; Dravland, Vern – 1979
This study examined the teaching effectiveness of a random sample of the University of Lethbridge Bachelor of Education graduates and related various components of their success to the performance of those same individuals as students within the teacher education program. Results are discussed in four major sections: (1) a description of the…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Evaluation Criteria, Factor Analysis, Predictor Variables
Garcia-Quintana, Roan A.; Ryan, Joseph P. – 1979
A sixth-grade mathematics test was evaluated in two different ways, and the evaluations were compared. One method of evaluation was to use the Rasch model for item analysis and to accept or reject items on the basis of the extent to which the data fit the model. The other method of evaluation was to ask school superintendents and teachers to rate…
Descriptors: Course Objectives, Criterion Referenced Tests, Elementary School Mathematics, Factor Analysis
AINSWORTH, STANLEY H.; AND OTHERS – 1959
A STUDY WAS MADE TO DISCOVER THE CURRICULAR AND ADMINISTRATIVE ADJUSTMENTS THAT WERE NEEDED IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF GEORGIA TO INSURE BETTER EDUCATION FOR MENTALLY RETARDED CHILDREN. THE EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT, SOCIAL STATUS, AND EMOTIONAL ADJUSTMENT OF RETARDED CHILDREN WERE STUDIED AND EVALUATED, USING THREE DIFFERENT SCHOOL ENVIRONMENTS FOR…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Classroom Environment, Educational Improvement
REICHMAN, WALTER – 1966
EVIDENCE ABOUT THE CONSTRUCT VALIDITY OF PRESUMED VOCATIONAL MATURITY FACTOR SCORES WAS OBTAINED BY STUDYING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FACTORS OF VOCATIONAL MATURITY AND A GROUP OF CONCURRENT VARIABLES DEEMED RELEVANT TO VOCATIONAL MATURITY. THESE VARIABLES WERE CLASSIFIED INTO FIVE GROUPS--FAMILY SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS, ABILITY AND ACHIEVEMENT,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aspiration, Career Development, Factor Analysis
BROWN, ROSCOE C.; HENDERSON, EDWARD – 1965
A STUDY WAS MADE TO DETERMINE THE EXTENT TO WHICH SCORES REPRESENTING PUPILS' STATUS ON CERTAIN DEVELOPMENTAL FACTORS CAN PREDICT THE ACHIEVEMENT IN READING, ARITHMETIC, AND THE MEDIAN OF THE BATTERY OF ACHIEVEMENT TESTS. THE STUDY COVERED A PERIOD OF 4 YEARS DURING WHICH THE SAME GROUP OF PUPILS WAS STUDIED IN THE THIRD, FOURTH, FIFTH, AND SIXTH…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Arithmetic, Child Development, Factor Analysis
BROWN, ROSCOE C., JR.; HENDERSON, EDWARD – 1965
THE EXTENT TO WHICH SCORES REPRESENTING PUPILS' STATUS ON CERTAIN DEVELOPMENTAL FACTORS PREDICTED THEIR ACHIEVEMENT IN READING, ARITHMETIC, AND THE MEDIAN OF A BATTERY OF ACHIEVEMENT TESTS WAS PRESENTED. THE STUDY COVERED A PERIOD OF 4 YEARS DURING WHICH THE SAME PUPILS WERE STUDIED IN THE THIRD, FOURTH, FIFTH, AND SIXTH GRADES. STUDIES OF THESE…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Child Development, Elementary School Students
Veroff, Joseph; And Others
Appendix 3 to the report, Measuring Intelligence and Achievement Motivation in Surveys, describes a series of factor analyses of the achievement orientation measures, and a further analysis of strategies used in trying to interpret them. Also a tentative model for the components of achievement orientation is presented. Appendix 4 describes a…
Descriptors: Achievement, Examiners, Expectation, Factor Analysis
Cawley, John F.; And Others – 1968
First grade children from two Head Start (HS) groups and one non-Head Start (NHS) group were administered a battery of tests for the purposes of (1) comparing the developmental status of HS and NHS subjects, (2) examing patterns of specific learning disabilities among HS and NHS children, (3) determining the stability coefficients of selected…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Compensatory Education
Speckhard, Gerald; Bracht, Glenn H. – 1968
Using data obtained from opinion questionnaires and standardized tests of educational development, attitudes, and critical thinking, a study was made in 1968 to test the findings of a 1965 study of students and teachers in two high schools--one experimental and one control--in the same school system in Colorado. Approximately 500 students were…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Educational Programs, Educational Research, Factor Analysis
Petrosko, Joseph M.; Shani, Esther – 1977
An analysis was made of quality ratings of elementary level standardized tests. Applying multidimensional scaling to intercorrelations of quality ratings, it was found that the criterion of content and construct validity was a central element in the evaluation of elementary tests. In addition, several types of validity and reliability were found…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Correlation, Elementary Education, Evaluation
Coward, Raymond T. – 1978
Retrospective assessments by 20 rural administrators who had participated in a five-year Rural Experimental Schools Project (1972-1977) sponsored by the National Institute of Education were investigated to ascertain which factors they felt inhibited or facilitated the process of change in a rural school setting. Information was gathered during a…
Descriptors: Administration, Change Agents, Change Strategies, Community
Baca, J. D. – 1974
Mexican American and Anglo secondary school teacher perceptions of Mexican American students were investigated and compared. The instrument used to retrieve the data was administered to 112 teachers in the three Dona Ana (N.M.) county school districts. Six constructs resulted from the factor analysis of the instrument, namely, achievement, time…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Awareness, Ethnic Stereotypes
