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Sigel, Irving E. – 1978
This paper provides a theoretical discussion of educational program evaluation. Psychometric theory and developmental psychology are compared as they pertain to the testing of children. The nature of change in childhood makes it necessary to examine the assumptions and goals related to the testing of children as a means of evaluating educational…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Measurement, Developmental Psychology, Developmental Stages
San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools, CA. – 1979
The Adult Career Planning Inventory (ACPI) was designed to elicit from clients their self-perceptions of aptitudes, interests, past experience, physical abilities, and education, and to compare these perceptions with actual job requirements as taken from the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT). The ACPI is a reusable eight-page booklet…
Descriptors: Adult Counseling, Adults, Attitude Measures, Career Choice
Pezzoli, Jean A. – 1979
The revised and renamed Strong Campbell Interest Inventory (SCII) is examined to determine if the occupational and sex biases present in the older Strong Vocational Interest Blank (SVIB) were eliminated. It is concluded that an occupational bias (favoring professional rather than blue-collar occupations) still exists in the SCII, although there is…
Descriptors: Blue Collar Occupations, Career Counseling, Females, Interest Inventories
Download full textEducational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. – 1964
This conference focuses upon various aspects of testing within a society, and upon technical advances in measurement. Philip H. DuBois's paper deals with China, a society dominated by tests, from 1115 BC--1905 AD. Donald W. Fiske discusses the effect of testing on the individual in modern America in his paper, "The Subject Looks at…
Descriptors: Asian History, Culture Fair Tests, Factor Analysis, Foreign Countries
Education Commission of the States, Denver, CO. National Assessment of Educational Progress.
This manual is part of a kit consisting of four documents which bring together different types of items that measure a number of career and occupational development (COD) objectives developed by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). (NAEP--which completed a national survey measuring the achievement of knowledge, skills,…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Adolescents, Attitude Measures, Career Awareness
Lambert, Nadine M. – 1977
Six school districts in California provided data on the Public School Version of the Adaptive Behavior Scale for 373 children, ages three through six, who were enrolled in regular and trainable mentally retarded (TMR) preschool programs. The results of the study are reported as means and standard deviations of the domain scores for Part One and…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Age Differences, Behavior Rating Scales, Cultural Influences
Green, Donald Ross; Roudabush, Glenn E.
Scores on the Prescriptive Reading Inventory, the California Achievement Tests, 1970 Edition, the the Short Form Tests of Academic Aptitude were obtained for black pupils and representative samples of pupils in grades 1-3. These scores were compared in an attempt to asses bias in the Prescriptive Reading Inventory, a criterion-referenced…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Black Students, Comparative Analysis, Criterion Referenced Tests
ERIC Clearinghouse on Handicapped and Gifted Children, Reston, VA. – 1975
The annotated bibliography on tests and measurements for identification of the gifted contains approximately 75 abstracts and associated indexing information for documents published from 1959 to 1973 and selected from the computer files of the Council for Exceptional Children's Information Services and the Education Resources Information Center…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Academic Achievement, Bibliographies, Creativity
Wilson, Russell C. – 1975
The study's purpose was to use the Adjective Check List (ACL), a self-administered personality assessment instrument, to determine whether there were response differences between a sample of Adult Basic Education (ABE) students and the general test norms. The ACL was administered to 142 students in ABE high school completion programs in Des…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Students, Evaluation, Evaluation Criteria
Lado, Robert – 1961
Intended as a comprehensive introduction to the construction and use of foreign language tests, this book utilizes modern linguistic knowledge as a base for scientific language testing. Major attention in testing is focused on such integrated language skills as auditory and reading comprehension, speaking, writing, translation, and over-all…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Comparative Testing, Cultural Education
Tinsley, Howard E. A.; Dawis, Rene V. – 1972
This research investigated the use of the Rasch simple logistic model in item and test calibration. Tests employing word, picture, symbol, and number analogies were administered to college students, high school students, civil service clerical employees, and clients of the Minnesota Division of Vocational Rehabilitation. The results suggest that…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Goodness of Fit, Government Employees
Hambleton, Ronald K.; Gorth, William P. – 1971
This paper highlights some special characteristics of criterion-referenced tests while comparing them with norm-referenced tests. Psychometric considerations involved in constructing a criterion-referenced test, including item analysis, reliability, and validity, are discussed, along with application of criterion-referenced testing to individual…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Criterion Referenced Tests, Curriculum Evaluation, Individualized Instruction
Nickel, Gerhard, Ed. – 1971
This conference report of the second annual meeting of the Society for Applied Linguistics contains 38 articles grouped under the following headings: (1) technology and multimedia instruction, (2) theory of translation, (3) the didactics of foreign language instruction, (4) a description of present-day language and linguistics, (5)…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Communications, Computational Linguistics, Conference Reports
Skager, Rodney – 1975
The corpus of descriptive terminology associated with achievement testing has expanded considerably in recent years, in large part due to the heightened interest in absolute and/or direct metrics for interpreting test performance plus the development of more rigorous strategies for specifying test content. Widely prevalent disagreement about…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Behavioral Objectives, Classification, Conceptual Schemes
McCarney, Stephen B.; Anderson, Paul D. – 2000
This technical manual provides an overview of the "Transition Behavior Scale-Second Edition Self-Report Version" (TBS-2 S-RV), an assessment that provides the means by which student behavior, which is predictive of employment and societal transition behavior, can be documented. Those students (ages 12-18) most likely to have problems in employment…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Rating Scales, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship
