Existing instruments for assessing brain damaged physically handicapped children are examined, and research on test modifications in the cognitive, communication, and motor performance domains is reviewed. Noted is the lack of tests standardized on a physically handicapped population. Cautions and criticisms are cited for modifications which have…

This explanatory booklet and the materials that accompany it have two major purposes. The first purpose is to provide local school officials information regarding the performance on basic skills achievement of each student who took the 1972-73 Michigan Educational Assessment Battery. The second purpose is to provide local officials with…

The purpose of this booklet is to assist the reader in understanding and utilizing the local district and local school reports provided by the Michigan Educational Assessment Program for the testing period January 1973. This document accompanies the data sheets and norm tables provided to each district and is intended to facilitate their use. This…

The success of objectives-based programs depends to a considerable extent on how effectively students and teachers assess mastery of objectives and make decisions for future instruction. While educators disagree on the usefulness of criterion-referenced tests the position taken in this monograph is that criterion-referenced tests are useful, and…

Intended for potential and current job placement coordinators, this guidebook describes Georgia's placement service activities in the following five areas: (1) organization of a placement service, (2) developmental activities, (3) testing, (4) individual and group work activities, and (5) followup evaluation and research. The test's introductory…

The following four hypotheses were tested: (1) nonmetropolitan areas with the highest percentages employed in industry in 1960 will experience the greatest inmigration between 1965-70; (2) those with a high percentage employed in agriculture will experience the lowest amounts of inmigration; (3) those areas with small farm size and low farm income…

This manual is designed to accompany Pennsylvania Educational Quality Assessment (EQA) elementary school reports for a district. The manual is not intended to stand alone; it is an aid to school administrators and other staff members for understanding the reports of their respective schools. Information includes: participating schools,…

This document provides the necessary instructions and forms for submission of a rapid learning center performance contract proposal as part of a 4-year dropout prevention program. Contract performance proposals are to embody mathematics and/or reading, and to involve students enrolled in grades 7-12 who are two or more grade levels deficient in…

In 1969-70 the Michigan Assessment Program gathered data from 320,000 students in approximately 4,000 schools in over 600 school districts across the state. The assessment battery included measures, at the fourth and seventh grade levels, of the following: socioeconomic status, attitude toward school, percentage of teachers with a master's degree,…

An adequate evaluation of the Program for Learning in Accordance with Needs (PLAN) necessitates consideration of all the PLAN goals and the extent to which they have been attained. Two sets of goals are identified. Eleven specific goals for each student, which involve the acquisition of a wide range of information, skills, and abilities in…

Three stages mark the development of relevance in testing: relevance to the educational program, relevance to the individual student's past accomplishments, and relevance to the student's future accomplishments. If the College Entrance Examination Board should have to follow paths such as these, it has ahead of it the enormous job of transforming…

As an evolving program of action research, this Project for Adult Literacy focused on the complex problems of adult illiteracy and its mitigation in a major urban community (Boston, Massachusetts). It was undertaken to teach reading; assess the use of volunteers in adult literacy education; evaluate two reading methods for use with adult…

This handbook illustrates how the classroom teacher can make efficient use of tests, discusses the main purposes tests can serve, treats principal kinds of testing devices especially useful in language instruction, and includes a section on the interpretation of test results. Chapters include: (1) the importance and place of testing in the foreign…

In 1968 the Demonstration and Research Center for Early Education (DARCEE) initiated a small study to build and utilize mothers' skills (established in an earlier and major study) and to begin to construct and explore the feasibility of a "career ladder" for persons interested in early education. Subjects were 12 Negro preschoolers and their…

The report presents local norms and tables derived from scores of the third administration of the Metropolitan Achievement Test Battery to pupils in grades 2, 4, and 6 in the Northwest Territories during November and December of 1968, and similar data from testing in 1966 and 1967. The student population in the schools consisted of 3 broad ethnic…