Publication Date
| In 2026 | 3 |
| Since 2025 | 636 |
| Since 2022 (last 5 years) | 3137 |
| Since 2017 (last 10 years) | 7378 |
| Since 2007 (last 20 years) | 15016 |
Descriptor
| Test Reliability | 15015 |
| Test Validity | 10252 |
| Reliability | 9751 |
| Foreign Countries | 7126 |
| Test Construction | 4811 |
| Validity | 4189 |
| Measures (Individuals) | 3875 |
| Factor Analysis | 3821 |
| Psychometrics | 3515 |
| Interrater Reliability | 3122 |
| Correlation | 3037 |
| More ▼ | |
Source
Author
Publication Type
Education Level
Audience
| Researchers | 709 |
| Practitioners | 451 |
| Teachers | 208 |
| Administrators | 122 |
| Policymakers | 66 |
| Counselors | 42 |
| Students | 38 |
| Parents | 11 |
| Community | 7 |
| Support Staff | 6 |
| Media Staff | 5 |
| More ▼ | |
Location
| Turkey | 1320 |
| Australia | 436 |
| Canada | 379 |
| China | 368 |
| United States | 271 |
| United Kingdom | 256 |
| Indonesia | 251 |
| Taiwan | 234 |
| Netherlands | 223 |
| Spain | 216 |
| California | 214 |
| More ▼ | |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
| Meets WWC Standards without Reservations | 8 |
| Meets WWC Standards with or without Reservations | 9 |
| Does not meet standards | 6 |
Roid, Gale; And Others – 1979
Differences among test item writers and among different rules for writing multiple choice items were investigated. Items testing comprehension of a prose passage were varied according to five factors: (1) information density of the passage; (2) item writer; (3) deletion of nouns, as opposed to adjectives, from the sentence in order to construct…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Criterion Referenced Tests, Difficulty Level, Elementary Education
Woolfolk, Anita E. – 1979
Findings from several recent studies suggest that the gender, cultural background and age of observers may influence their perception and evaluation of nonverbal communication. There is ample evidence to warrant using raters of only one sex (preferably female) and only one cultural background when the rating task involves decoding nonverbal…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classroom Observation Techniques, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences
Folsom, R. E.; Weber, J. H. – 1976
Longitudinal measures of change are the most important kinds of estimates being produced from the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 (NLS). Several topics are presented in this report, most of which build on previous variance components analyses. The major areas covered are effects of stratification and clustering,…
Descriptors: Followup Studies, Graduate Surveys, High School Graduates, High Schools
Chissom, Brad; And Others – 1978
The D-48 and D-70 (Dominoes) Tests, which are parallel forms of a non-verbal, cross-cultural test, were administered to 82 college students and 112 high school freshmen. Criterion scores were obtained on the Otis Quick Score and grade point average for the college students, and the Iowa Test of Basic Skills for the ninth-graders. Results showed a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Culture Fair Tests, Grade 9
Rice, William K., Jr.; And Others – 1980
The Functional Language Assessment (FLA) is a screening test which, when used in combination with teacher ratings and English achievement test scores, helps identify students, aged 5 through 13 from non-English speaking backgrounds, in need of bilingual programs. The language proficiency test can be administered by school staff who do not speak…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Cutting Scores, Elementary Education
Gil, Doron; And Others – 1980
A study was conducted to investigate the degree to whicb subjects could be trained to improve the reliability of their diagnostic decisions about cases of reading difficulties. Twenty-eight graduate students enrolled in a reading diagnosis course were trained from G. B. Sherman's Model of Reading and Learning to Read, and practiced on simulated…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Graduate Study, Higher Education, Pretests Posttests
Moran, Edward; And Others – 1980
Since grade-appropriate levels of standardized achievement tests must frequently be used in Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I evaluations, there may be large discrepancies between test difficulty and the achievement level of those being tested, with resultant inaccuracies in the scores. Procedures based on the Rasch scaling model were…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Achievement Tests, Compensatory Education, Difficulty Level
Ellett, Chad D. – 1980
An overview is presented of a performance-based assessment system, Teacher Performance Assessment Instruments (TPAI), developed by the Teacher Assessment Project at the University of Georgia to measure competencies of beginning teachers for initial professional certification. To clearly separate the preparation and certification functions within…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Competency Based Teacher Education, Higher Education, Legal Problems
Willinger, Ken; And Others – 1980
Accountability has become a concern for public mental health programs, including the Hawaii State Mental Health Division which relies on the Multi-State Information System (MSIS) for program planning and evaluation. Accuracy in reporting and agreement in clinical judgment on the MSIS has been assumed but never tested until an analogue study was…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Clinical Psychology, Error Patterns, Evaluation Methods
Download full textANDERSON, JAMES A.; FOLLMAN, JOHN C. – 1967
A STUDY OF FIVE DIFFERENT ESSAY EVALUATION PROCEDURES WAS CONDUCTED TO DETERMINE THE INTRARELIABILITY OF EACH AND TO USE THESE RELIABILITY SCORES AS A BASIS FOR COMPARING THE FIVE PROCEDURES. TEN THEMES WERE ASSIGNED TO FIVE RATING GROUPS, EACH USING A DIFFERENT EVALUATION PROCEDURE--(1) THE CALIFORNIA ESSAY SCALE, (2) THE CLEVELAND COMPOSITION…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Comparative Analysis, English, Evaluation Methods
McKee, Barbara G. – 1980
Canonical variate analysis was employed to measure the direction and intensity of relationships between student ratings of instruction and students' course-oriented attitude change. Change was defined as the residual post-course attitude scores when pre-course attitude scores served as predictors. The Adjective Rating Scale (ARS), a measure of…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Course Evaluation, Higher Education, Multivariate Analysis
Elsworth, Gerald R.; Coulter, Frank – 1977
This monograph reports the development of a semantic differential designed to measure professional self perception in student teachers. Seven scales were identified by factor analysis of the responses of 396 student teachers to 56 adjectival pairs used to rate the concepts "Myself,""Myself as I would like to be,""Myself as…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Evaluation Criteria, Factor Structure, Foreign Countries
Stewart, Anita L.; And Others – 1980
This report includes: (1) a description of the way overweight and obesity have been measured by various investigators, including an assessment of the reliability and validity of the available measures; (2) data on the prevalence of overweight based on a literature review, including a list of issues that may influence estimates of prevalence (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Body Weight, Dietetics, Eating Habits, Futures (of Society)
Epstein, Ira – 1980
A reading program's effectiveness can be assessed by investigating skills improvement together with attitude improvement. Frequently, teachers make questionable assumptions about student reading attitudes. To provide educators with a more accurate picture of students' expressed feelings, students' attitudes toward reading should be measured with…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Evaluation Criteria, Interviews, Measurement Techniques
Siegel, Arthur I.; And Others – 1980
A description of the perceptual/psychomotor ability requirements for performing the tasks of various Air Force career fields was sought. An analysis of the literature relating to taxonomies, measurement considerations and job analyses yielded a taxonomy containing thirteen perceptual/psychomotor classes along with techniques for collecting the…
Descriptors: Classification, Job Analysis, Perception Tests, Perceptual Motor Coordination
