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Ackerman, Amy S. – 1977
Adjunct questions are test-like items interspersed at regular intervals, preceding or following prose passages, with the intention of increasing subsequent learning. In this state-of-the-art review, studies which include three major variables--age, ability, and question complexity level--are examined to determine whether a particular combination…
Descriptors: Ability, Advance Organizers, Age, Difficulty Level
Curry, Allen R.; And Others – 1978
The efficacy of employing subsets of items from a calibrated item pool to estimate the Rasch model person parameters was investigated. Specifically, the degree of invariance of Rasch model ability-parameter estimates was examined across differing collections of simulated items. The ability-parameter estimates were obtained from a simulation of…
Descriptors: Career Development, Difficulty Level, Equated Scores, Error of Measurement
Roberts, A. Oscar H. – 1976
For Title I evaluations, it may be appropriate to test out-of-level; that is, to override publisher's recommendations concerning the difficulty, length, and content appropriate for a particular grade. It is seldom necessary, however, to move more than one grade down. If the mean is substantially higher than the median, then some pupils will have…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Difficulty Level, Educational Testing, Elementary Secondary Education
Richek, Margaret Ann – 1975
Test questions were phrased according to different sentence structures in a study of the complexity level of items for 220 third-grade children. Both the sensitivity of wh-questions (who, what, where, etc.) as a dependent variable and differences between wh-questions eliciting subject and predicate nouns were investigated. Effects of paraphrase…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Difficulty Level, Elementary School Students, Grade 3
A Comparison of Three Types of Test Development Procedures Using Classical and Latent Trait Methods.
Benson, Jeri; Wilson, Michael – 1979
Three methods of item selection were used to select sets of 38 items from a 50-item verbal analogies test and the resulting item sets were compared for internal consistency, standard errors of measurement, item difficulty, biserial item-test correlations, and relative efficiency. Three groups of 1,500 cases each were used for item selection. First…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Difficulty Level, Efficiency, Error of Measurement
Merz, William R.; Grossen, Neal E. – 1978
Six approaches to assessing test item bias were examined: transformed item difficulty, point biserial correlations, chi-square, factor analysis, one parameter item characteristic curve, and three parameter item characteristic curve. Data sets for analysis were generated by a Monte Carlo technique based on the three parameter model; thus, four…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Evaluation Methods, Factor Analysis, Item Analysis
Gutierrez, Eugene J. – 1979
Education is faced with a declining resource base coupled with overwhelming demands for categorical programs. The current resource allocation strategy common to all systems is cutting spending. The difference between large and small districts is less important than differences in complexity. Complexity in resource allocations is more a function of…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Difficulty Level, Disadvantaged Youth, Efficiency
Snart, Fern; Mulcahy, Robert – 1979
Age differences in recognition and recall of common nouns were studied using three groups of fifty students, with mean ages of 6.7, 11.4, and 16.9. Subjects were randomly placed in either an incidental or intentional learning condition. All subjects were questioned about the physical, phonemic, and semantic aspects of the same words, in the same…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Difficulty Level, Elementary Secondary Education
New York State Education Dept., Albany. – 1979
The New York State Preliminary Competency Test in Reading is designed to measure a student's ability to understand written material of varying levels of difficulty. Results are used to evaluate a student's current level of achievement in reading and to indicate the extent of compensatory or remedial help which may be necessary to pass the final…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Educational Testing, Elementary Secondary Education, Minimum Competency Testing
Miljkovitch, M. – 1979
The purpose of this study is to show that there is a gradual and measurable development in the drawing of space representation concepts. A further purpose is to show that children's drawings of a village (which represent relations among concepts) may be a better measure of their conceptual maturity than their drawings of a man (which represent a…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Childrens Art, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Tests
Marton, Ference; Saljo, Roger – 1979
Structural reading difficulty of argumentative prose (text with an underlying message or superordinate principle), is related to the reader's approach to reading and learning. Ninety Swedish teenagers and adults with varying levels of formal education, were divided into three groups, based on their own descriptions of reading and learning: deep…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Adults, Cognitive Style, Conceptual Schemes
Peabody, Fred J. – 1968
Using the critical incident method, this study sought to describe job requirements perceived as critical by Michigan Cooperative Extension agents, identify training needs, and determine possible differences in training needs and job requirements according to employment position and tenure. The research involved collecting 444 written descriptions…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Critical Incidents Method, Difficulty Level, Doctoral Dissertations
Williams, Paul L.; Callahan, Carolyn M. – 1977
In an effort to identify the cognitive characteristics of teachers which predispose them to attempt to increase levels of information processing in their classrooms, a theoretical construct--cognitive complexity--was synthesized from the processes of conceptual level, creativity, and categorization. Measures of constructs listed above were…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement, Communication Skills
Graveel, John G.; Fribourg, Henry A. – Journal of Agronomic Education, 1987
Reported is a study designed to determine whether reading grade level (RGL) assessment techniques used for elementary and secondary education textbooks would discriminate among plant and soil science textbooks. The study was to select the RGL indices suited to quantify the readability of these sources, and to identify the factors affecting…
Descriptors: Agronomy, College Science, Content Analysis, Content Area Reading
Seymour, Sherrie L.; And Others – Educational Communication and Technology, 1987
Describes study that investigated the effects of medium of instructional practice, task difficulty, and gender on continuing motivation. Microcomputers and paper and pencil format were compared on tasks at a hard or easy difficulty level with fifth and sixth grade students, and questionnaires were used to determine student attitudes. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Computer Assisted Instruction, Difficulty Level, Elementary Education