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Biological Sciences Curriculum Study, Boulder, CO. – 1966
SUPPLEMENTARY TEST QUESTIONS FOR USE BY SECONDARY BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES CURRICULUM STUDY GREEN VERSION BIOLOGY TEACHERS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF EXAMINATIONS ARE CONTAINED IN THIS EXPERIMENTAL MANUAL. THE ITEMS WERE PREPARED BY THE BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES CURRICULUM STUDY TEST CONSTRUCTION COMMITTEE IN RESPONSE TO TEACHER REQUESTS FOR SHORT-RANGE TESTS.…
Descriptors: Biology, Evaluation, Multiple Choice Tests, Science Course Improvement Projects
Download full textPEARCE, FRANK C. – 1965
A DISCUSSION OF TEST VARIABLES AND THE TESTING PROGRAM OF THE PROJECT WAS INITIALLY PRESENTED IN THIS DOCUMENT. CAUTION WAS PARTICULARLY EMPHASIZED IN THE INTERPRETATION OF RESULTS USING STANDARD ACHIEVEMENT TESTS WITH SUBJECTS FROM THE MODESTO MULTI OCCUPATIONAL PROJECT. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR IMPROVED PROGRAM EVALUATION INCLUDED ADDITIONAL…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Occupations
MANUEL, HERSCHEL T. – 1963
A NEW SERIES OF INTER-AMERICAN TESTS OF GENERAL ABILITY AND TESTS OF READING IN PARALLEL ENGLISH AND SPANISH EDITIONS HAS BEEN DEVELOPED FOR USE IN A VARIETY OF SITUATIONS. THE TESTS REPRESENT TOOLS WHICH MAY BE USED EFFECTIVELY THROUGHOUT THIS HEMSIPHERE WHEREVER ENGLISH OR SPANISH IS SPOKEN. THE TESTS WERE CONSTRUCTED FROM MATERIALS COMMON TO…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Elementary School Students, English, Material Development
BOURGEAULT, STANLEY E.; WOODCOCK, RICHARD W. – 1964
A BATTERY OF TESTS WAS DEVELOPED AND STANDARDIZED TO MEASURE MASTERY OF TWO BRAILLE CODES--THE GRADE 2 LITERARY CODE AND THE NEMETH CODE FOR MATHEMATICAL NOTATION. DESIGNATED AS THE "COLORADO BRAILLE BATTERY," THESE TESTS PROVIDED OBJECTIVE MEASUREMENT DATA REGARDING A STUDENT'S OVERALL DEVELOPMENT IN BRAILLE, AS WELL AS A MEANS OF…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Blindness, Braille, Handicapped Children
RONNING, ROYCE R.; STEWART, LAWRENCE H. – 1964
A CONTINUATION STUDY OF USOE PROJECT NUMBER 1493 EXTENDED THE EXAMINATION OF PROBLEMS IN USING MULTIVARIATE SCALING TECHNIQUES FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF INTERESTS. AN EXPERIMENTAL INSTRUMENT, SIMILAR IN FORMAT TO THE SOCIAL RELATIONS SCALE CONSTRUCTED BY GARDNER AND THOMPSON (1956), WAS PREVIOUSLY DEVELOPED. SUBTESTS ON THIS INSTRUMENT (THE INTEREST…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Counseling, Educational Counseling, Factor Analysis
LEWIS, DAVID M. – 1965
AN INSTRUMENT WAS DEVELOPED WHICH COULD BE USED TO INVESTIGATE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' PERCEPTIONS OF SITUATIONS WHICH CONSTITUTE CHEATING. ALSO AN INSTRUMENT WAS DEVELOPED TO INVESTIGATE STUDENTS' PERCEPTION OF THE WILLINGNESS OF FACULTY MEMBERS TO RELATE TO THEM IN A VARIETY OF WAYS AND SITUATIONS. THE PERCEPTION OF TEACHERS AS UNWILLING TO RELATE…
Descriptors: Behavior, Cheating, College Faculty, College Students
DELATTRE, PIERRE – 1960
THIS PAPER WAS PRESENTED AT A TWO-PART CONFERENCE ON PLANNING AND OPERATING LANGUAGE LABORATORIES. DISCUSSED WERE PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF CONSTRUCTING TESTS OF ORAL PRODUCTION. TEST EXAMPLES WERE GIVEN IN FRENCH. METHODS FOR DEVELOPING MORE OBJECTIVE TEST PROGRAMS WERE PRESENTED. THIS DOCUMENT IS PART OF A SERIES, ED 003 919-ED 003 924, AND ED 003…
Descriptors: French, Language Laboratories, Language Patterns, Language Tests
Ekstrom, Ruth B. – 1979
Three areas of concern related to test bias and validity should be considered during the revision of the Standards for Educational and Psychological Tests. The first area concerns the sources and consequences of test bias. Five sources of bias have been identified: numerical bias, role bias, status bias, stereotypic bias, and familiarity bias. The…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Psychometrics, Test Bias, Test Construction
Humes, Ann – 1980
Specifying and writing appropriate items for student writing assessments is an exacting task. All too frequently, however, teachers approach this task by reading a skill statement and hurriedly writing a few items with correct answers combined with several distractors. This approach disregards the essentials of isolating a single skill for…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Student Evaluation, Teaching Methods, Test Construction
Finnegan, Denis Edward – 1976
A testing instrument, the Experimental Phoneme Sequence Test (EPST), was devised to collect baseline information for studying receptive knowledge of phoneme sequencing in normal articulating kindergarten and elementary school children. One hundred kindergarten through fourth-grade children, five male and five female subjects at each half-year…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Education, Language Acquisition
Larkin, John; Martin, Barry – 1979
Developed specifically to aid teachers who are using or wish to use the Maryland Plan approach to Industrial Arts, this guide offers procedural information on testing and evaluation useful to any teacher interested in evaluating student performance. Focus is on how to develop test items based on instructional objectives; examples are included.…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Guidelines, Guides, Industrial Arts
Camp, William G. – 1979
A procedural model is presented for the construction and validation of an attitude scale in vocational education; and the results of an instrumentation study using that model are discussed. The three-stage model is composed of: (1) stratification of the construct; (2) item construction and selection; and (3) item cluster analysis. In phase one,…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Attitude Measures, Career Education, Guides
BALDWIN, THOMAS S. – 1966
PRELIMINARY WORK ON DEVELOPING THE CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK INTO WHICH PSYCHOMOTOR BEHAVIORS CAN BE CATEGORIZED INVOLVED DESIGNING STUDIES TO DISCOVER THE DIMENSIONALITY OF THE TACTILE-KINESTHETIC SENSE MODALITIES IN ORDER THAT THEIR MODIFICATIONS AS A FUNCTION OF TRAINING CAN BE STUDIED. THE IMPORTANT CHANGES THAT OCCUR IN ACQUIRING THE SKILLS BEING…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Curriculum, Psychomotor Skills, Research Projects
Department of Psychological Foundations, Washington, DC. – 1967
THE PURPOSE OF THE PROJECT REPORT IS FOURFOLD--(1) TO PROVE THE NEED FOR SCHOLASTIC APTITUDE TESTS, (2) TO SHOW THE NEED FOR A COMMON TEST FOR A LARGE GEOGRAPHICAL AREA, (3) TO SHOW THAT SCHOLASTIC APTITUDE TESTS ARE PREFERABLE TO TESTS OF INTELLIGENCE, AND (4) TO DISCUSS THE EXPECTED OUTCOMES WITH THE ADMINISTRATION OF SUCH TESTS. THE REPORT IS…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Grade 11, Grade 8, Research Projects
Evans, Ben H. – 1962
Research development of a construction system is detailed in terms of--(1) design and analysis, (2) construction methods, (3) testing, (4) cost analysis, and (5) architectural potentials. The system described permits construction of usual shapes without the use of conventional concrete formwork. The concrete involves development of a structural…
Descriptors: Building Design, Cement Industry, Construction Costs, Construction (Process)
