Most often, new teachers default to the pedagogical practices they themselves were exposed to as teacher candidates. If teacher education programs are to promote the value of collaboration, they must teach and model collaborative pedagogy within their programs. This study is a qualitative examination of the soundness of two forms of collaborative…

This report responds to a request for information about the quality of the tests the City University of New York (CUNY) uses to decide who must take remedial courses and a profile of CUNY freshmen. Roughly 65% of CUNY bachelor's degree students and nearly 90% of associate degree students are required to take remedial courses in reading, writing,…

Ideas about educational assessment are synthesized to construct a Quality Assessment Checklist that can be used to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of classroom assessments. Sound assessment begins with clear and appropriate learning targets. Once learning targets have been identified, they need to be matched with appropriate methods.…

The construct validity and internal consistency (reliability) of the 30-item form of the Leadership Behavior Descriptive Questionnaire (E. Fleishman, 1957; A. Halpin and B. Winer, 1957) as presented in a current leadership text was assessed. Classroom teachers and administrators (n=187) completed the instrument. Although reliability was found to…

This study used Project Essay Grade (PEG) to evaluate essays both holistically and with the rating of traits (content, organization, style, mechanics, and creativity) for Web-based student essays that serve as placement tests at a large Midwestern university. In addition, the use of a TopicScore, or measure of topic content for each assignment,…

Discusses the development and analysis of Raven's Test of Logical Operations which uses the same problem solving rules as Piaget's. Indicates that the test is sensitive to the determination of students' difficulties with specific types of reasoning patterns. (CC)

Argues that from a black perspective, the real concern is not merely that of defining intelligence, about which there is lacking a consensus among psychologists, but one which challenges the basic scientific considerations of validity, reliability, and standardization of intelligence tests. (Author/JM)

The attitudes of 600 second year and fifth year grammar school pupils towards their school subjects were investigated using a repertory grid developed specifically for this purpose. (Editor)

A chart of the major action points in the course of developing tests for training evaluation and for qualifying trainees provides a framework for discussing the problems and practices of test development. Performance standards are the most common sources of trouble; the test developer must have unequivocal standards to work from. (AJ)

In this paper, an attempt has been made to synthesize some of the current thinking in the area of criterion-referenced testing as well as to provide the beginning of an integration of theory and method for such testing. (Editor)

Describes the development and testing of an instrument for use at the eighth grade level to measure four science processes: observation, inference, verification, and classification. Indicates that the two forms of the instrument are average in reliability and high in factor validity. (CC)

The compliance of Kikuyu children was very high, and was tentatively argued to be a concomitant of the child's participation in the household's economic activities. (DM)

IQ tests are used to judge the mental capacities of black Americans, a fact which places a tremendous ethical responsibility on those involved in IQ test research and administration: most IQ test developers and administrators have abrogated this responsibility. (Author/JM)

Gumpgookies, which was administered in this study, is a test of motivation to achieve in school. (CB)