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Download full textJohnson, Dale D.; And Others – 1979
Work on the development of a phonics test that will be incorporated into a total word identification test battery has continued for several years. A prototype of the test was developed in winter 1977, and a revised version was administered in spring 1978. Analysis of this test data revealed several problems, and new criteria for the test were…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Error Patterns, Phonics
Forster, Fred; Ingebo, George – 1978
Six monographs on the Rasch model are summarized. The first gives a historical perspective on the application of the Rasch model in the Portland, Oregon, metropolitan area. The remaining papers summarize research on the Rasch model. The research in Monograph II lead to the conclusion that random samples are not needed to calibrate item levels in…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Education, Field Tests, Item Banks
McCaslin, N. L.; Walker, Jerry P. – 1979
This document is the third volume in a set of five Career Education Measurement Handbooks intended to help local education personnel in measurement and evaluation. Divided into seven major sections, this handbook is designed to provide practical guidelines for improving career education instruments developed at the local level. It is primarily…
Descriptors: Career Education, Educational Assessment, Guidelines, Measures (Individuals)
HIBSCH, RICHARD S. – 1952
THE EFFECT OF KNOWLEDGE OF RESULTS ON HIGHLY MOTIVATED SUBJECTS IN A REALISTIC TRAINING SITUATION WITH HIGHLY MEANINGFUL AND RELEVANT LEARNING MATERIAL WAS INVESTIGATED. THE PURPOSE OF THE STUDY WAS TO DISCOVER HOW KNOWLEDGE OF RESULTS COULD BE APPLIED TO IMPROVE LEARNING FROM FILMS. SUBJECTS WERE MIDSHIPMEN OF THE NROTC UNIT AT PENNSYLVANIA STATE…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Audiovisual Aids, College Instruction, Feedback
MEDLEY, DONALD M. – 1967
AT PRESENT, THE PART OF ANY TEACHER EFFECTIVENESS CRITERION THAT CAN BE PREDICTED WITH A SELECTION TEST IS PROBABLY IRRELEVANT TO TEACHER COMPETENCE. TESTING THE VALIDITY OF PREDICTORS OF TEACHER COMPETENCE IS IMPOSSIBLE BECAUSE IT WOULD REQUIRE HIRING A SIZABLE RANDOM SAMPLE OF ALL WHO APPLY FOR POSITIONS, WITHOUT PRIOR SCREENING. FURTHER,…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Prediction, Predictive Measurement
CLEARY, T.A.; LINN, ROBERT L. – 1967
THE PURPOSE OF THIS RESEARCH WAS TO STUDY THE EFFECT OF ERROR OF MEASUREMENT UPON THE POWER OF STATISTICAL TESTS. ATTENTION WAS FOCUSED ON THE F-TEST OF THE SINGLE FACTOR ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE. FORMULAS WERE DERIVED TO SHOW THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE NONCENTRALITY PARAMETERS FOR ANALYSES USING TRUE SCORES AND THOSE USING OBSERVED SCORES. THE…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Error of Measurement, Measurement Techniques, Psychological Testing
KRUGLAK, HAYM – 1965
SOURCES OF INFORMATION ABOUT THE MEASUREMENT OF STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT IN COLLEGE PHYSICS ARE PRESENTED. DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARIES INCLUDE COMPLETE CITATIONS OF PERTINENT DOCUMENTS PUBLISHED PRIOR TO 1965 AND ARE GROUPED IN CATEGORIES WHICH INCLUDE (1) BACKGROUND REFERENCES, (2) THEORY AND TECHNOLOGY IN TEST CONSTRUCTION, (3) ACHIEVEMENT TESTING, (4)…
Descriptors: Achievement, Achievement Tests, Bibliographies, College Science
DUBOIS, PHILIP H.; WIENTGE, KING M. – 1966
THIS PRELIMINARY MANUAL OUTLINES CONTENT, ADMINISTRATIVE AND SCORING PROCEDURES, ANTECEDENT RESEARCH, AND AVAILABLE NORM DATA FOR THE TEST OF ADULT COLLEGE APTITUDE (TACA). THE TACA, A COMBINED TEST AND ANSWER SHEET ADAPTED FOR VISUAL SCORING BY AN OPTICAL SCANNER, CONSISTS OF 22 ITEMS ON BIOGRAPHICAL DATA (AGE, SEX, OCCUPATION, FAMILY AND MARITAL…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Aptitude, Adult Education, Adult Learning
Iverson, Barbara K.; Schiller, Diane P. – 1980
A home assessment measure was developed as an economical alternative to parent interviews. The 48 items measured five factors: parent expectations and aspirations; family activeness; independence; language development; and support of school and education. Correlations with standardized reading and mathematics achievement tests were based on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Correlation, Elementary Education, Family Environment
Bull, Kay Sather; Feuquay, Jeffrey P. – 1980
In order to facilitate research on the construct of causal attribution, this paper details developmental procedures used to minimize previous deficiencies and proposes a new scale. The first version of the scale was in ipsative form and provided two basic sets of indices: (1) ability, effort, luck, and task difficulty indices in success and…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Attitude Measures
Samejima, Fumiko – 1980
Research related to the multiple choice test item is reported, as it is conducted by educational technologists in Japan. Sato's number of hypothetical equivalent alternatives is introduced. The based idea behind this index is that the expected uncertainty of the m events, or alternatives, be large and the number of hypothetical, equivalent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Latent Trait Theory, Mathematical Models, Multiple Choice Tests
Jaeger, Richard M.; Wolf, Marian B. – 1980
The traditional vehicle for collection of information from parents about a school's goals is a questionnaire that provides alternative goal statements. Two problems are frequently associated with such questionnaires: the goal lists suggest that a school can achieve all desired goals simultaneously; and many surveys use stimulus questions that are…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Educational Objectives, Elementary Education, Intellectual Disciplines
Gentry, Larry A. – 1979
A study was conducted to determine the precise content of elementary school spelling instruction. Spelling textbooks for grades one through six from seven major commercial publishers were selected on the basis of their use in elementary classrooms and were subjected to a critical, computer-assisted analysis in order to identify and classify the…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Measures (Individuals)
Herrington, Anne J. – 1979
A writing competency exam has been developed at a Vermont state college as a uniform method of judging attainment of a specified minimum standard for writing. The test was designed to meet four primary criteria: to judge student ability to create discourse, to yield specific evaluative information, to involve all academic divisions in test design…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Minimum Competency Testing
Edelbrock, Craig S.; Achenback, Thomas M. – 1978
The paper describes the development and use of the Child Behavior Profile, a measure of behavioral problems and competencies standardized for each sex at ages 4 to 5, 6 to 11, and 12 to 16. Cluster analysis is explained to have produced six reliable profile types for boys 6-11 years old; five reliable profile types for boys 12 through 16 years…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Behavior Rating Scales, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Disturbances
