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Download full textLevine, Michael V.; Rubin, Donald B. – 1976
Appropriateness indexes (statistical formulas) for detecting suspiciously high or low scores on aptitude tests were presented, based on a simulation of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) with 3,000 simulated scores--2,800 normal and 200 suspicious. The traditional index--marginal probability--uses a model for the normal examinee's test-taking…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Aptitude Tests, College Entrance Examinations, High Schools
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1980
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 35 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) cloze procedure; (2) the monitoring and facilitation of reading growth; (3) the effect of immediate item feedback on the reliability and validity of verbal…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Basic Skills, Cloze Procedure, Communication Skills
Aaronson, May; And Others – 1979
The Classroom Behavior Description (CBD)--a brief 10-item checklist on which teachers rate preschool childrens' behaviors which are considered most likely to influence school performance--was developed on the basis of earlier extensive research with more comprehensive children's behavior inventories. Results are reported of studies of teachers'…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Rating Scales, Cognitive Tests, Early Childhood Education
SELECTION FOR TRAINING, DO PRESENT PRACTICES MILITATE AGAINST OLDER WORKERS. PANEL AND WORKSHOP III.
PALLONE, NATHANIEL J.; AND OTHERS – 1966
FOUR PAPERS WERE PRESENTED ON WORK DONE IN THE FIELD OF SELECTION OF OLDER WORKERS (OVER 45) FOR VOCATIONAL TRAINING. IN SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, A PROGRAM WAS DESIGNED FOR THE EDUCATIONAL REHABILITATION OF 100 HARD-CORE UNEMPLOYED WHOSE GATB SCORES DISQUALIFIED THEM FOR VOCATIONAL TRAINING. THE U.S. EMPLOYMENT SERVICE HAS UNDERTAKEN A PROGRAM OF…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Age Differences, Aptitude Tests, Career Counseling
Morrell, Dale L. – 1977
A project sought (1) to provide vocational units of study geared to the readability levels of all students in high school vocational education and (2) to develop an instrument to measure achievement in vocational education with this same element of readability in mind. Pre- and posttests measuring vocational achievement and reading levels…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Curriculum Evaluation
Michlein, Michael G. – 1977
Objectives of phase II of a study were (1) to run a pilot program to predict potential dropouts and assist them to overcome obstacles which might cause them to leave school and (2) to establish a system to immediately obtain needed information from dropouts. An instrument to identify potential dropouts was selected and students were divided into…
Descriptors: Adult Dropouts, Adult Vocational Education, Data Collection, Dropout Attitudes
Powills, Judith A.; And Others – 1979
Language arts teachers participated in an inservice program, The Writer's Clinic, and evaluated their students' improvement in writing ability using holistic essay scoring techniques. Seventh and eighth grade students were administered an essay composition pretest in December; the same essay topic was given as the post test in May. Students were…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cost Effectiveness, Essay Tests, Essays
Hocevar, Dennis – 1979
Widely used measures of creativity are reviewed and classified into ten categories: tests of divergent thinking; attitude and interest inventories; personality inventories; biographical inventories; teacher nominations; peer nominations; supervisor ratings; judgments of products; nomination of eminent persons; and self-reported creative activities…
Descriptors: Achievement, Attitude Measures, Bibliographies, Biographical Inventories
Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. – 1963
Conference speakers reviewed and analyzed the current thinking underlying the basic concepts of test norms, reliability, and validity. Roger T. Lennon's paper called for more attention to the development of norming theory and summarized current norming practices and the establishment of a system which would permit comparable norms for tests which…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Ability, College Students, Educational Testing
Sage, Daniel D. – 1967
Materials utilizing a simulated environment approach were developed, produced, pilot tested, and evaluated to determine their usefulness as media for training programs and for behavioral research in the process of administration of special education. Background and task materials took the form of both written and audiovisual media, featuring a…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Role
Morris, June E., Comp.; Nolan, Carson Y., Comp. – 1967
The 345 references in this bibliography include articles from the periodical literature, books, and conference proceedings, and concentrate on these topics: theoretical and practical aspects of testing, historical development of testing, instructions, manuals, and methods of administration, test descriptions and evaluation, development of adapted…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Blindness, Books, Conference Reports
Lietz, Jeremy Jon – 1975
The Wisconsin Administrative Practice Scale: Special Education (WAPS) is a self-administering survey instrument designed to measure implementation of 162 selected administrative practices and policies used to coordinate diagnostic units for handicapped children. One hundred thirty-five items are grouped into seven subscales each consisting of…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Clinical Diagnosis, Communication (Thought Transfer), Cooperative Programs
Willens, Howard P.; And Others – 1975
This amicus curiae was filed by the Educational Testing Service (ETS) in the case of the United States of America and North Carolina Association of Educators v. North Carolina, which involved the validity of North Carolina's use of the National Teacher Examinations (NTE). The NTE, a battery of achievement tests designed to measure the academic…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Cutting Scores
Butler, John A. – 1974
In past Head Start evaluations, cognitive measures have been weighed heavily. This has not accurately reflected the relative unimportance of cognitive program goals; child performance gains are not an objective with high priority for most Head Start programs. Evaluation planners need to weigh previously encountered measurement problems carefully…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavioral Objectives, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development
Campbell, Joel T.; And Others – 1973
The fairness of testing practices for selection or promotion of members of different racial and ethnic groups has been questioned. In this study, a search was made of occupations in the Federal Government to find those in various agencies with sufficient ethnic group representation for acceptable sample size, and for which dependable and objective…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Aptitude Tests, Criterion Referenced Tests, Data Analysis
