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Haag, Carl H. – 1978
Some uses of achievement tests to provide information for school administrators are described. Three systematic programs are described briefly: (1) a computer-based approach to management and planning designed to answer what is to be learned, how is it to be learned, and has it been learned; (2) a problem solving design for accountability that…
Descriptors: Accountability, Achievement Tests, Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives
Berk, Ronald A. – 1978
Sixteen item statistics recommended for use in the development of criterion-referenced tests were evaluated. There were two major criteria: (1) practicability in terms of ease of computation and interpretation and (2) meaningfulness in the context of the development process. Most of the statistics were based on a comparison of performance changes…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Criterion Referenced Tests, Difficulty Level, Guides
National Association of Independent Schools, Boston, MA. – 1978
The booklet discusses teaching gifted and talented students in the regular classroom. Brief case histories of three different types of gifted students are presented: morally gifted, creatively gifted, and cognitively gifted. Defining the gifted and talented is discussed, and characteristics of gifted children within each talent area are outlined.…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Annotated Bibliographies, Aptitude Tests, Case Studies
Download full textCalifornia State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. Office of Program Evaluation and Research. – 1978
The profiles of the California Statewide assessment program permit comparison of a district's test performance with that of previous years and of other districts. After a brief explanation of the tests' development, content, administration, and limitations, this interpretive guide explains how the results are displayed in the district profiles. A…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Elementary Secondary Education
Thomas, Gail E. – 1977
This report examines the importance of race for college entry of blacks and whites when students' family background and standardized achievement test scores are taken into consideration. Data are from a subsample of 14,009 black and white males and females who participated in the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Admission Criteria, Black Students
Haebara, Tomokazu – 1979
It is proposed that statistical tests for item bias, when they are based on the three-parameter logistic item characteristic curve, should begin by testing for differences in the third parameter, the pseudo-chance level or "guessing" parameter. Other item-bias studies that have not considered the third parameter are discussed. Asymptotic…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Black Students, Grade 9, Item Analysis
Tharu, J. – CIEFL Bulletin, 1973
The soundness of the existing system of examination at the high school level in India is assessed with particular reference to the English section. The purposes to be served by the examination are discussed and the shortcomings of the system are described. The test and the passing procedure is found inferior to those systems which utilize…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, English (Second Language), Essay Tests, Language Tests
Douglass, James B. – 1980
The three-, two- and one-parameter (Rasch) logistic item characteristic curve models are compared for use in a large multi-section college course. Only the three-parameter model produced clearly unacceptable parameter estimates for 100 item tests with examinee samples ranging from 594 to 1082. The Rasch and two-parameter models were compared for…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Achievement Tests, Course Content, Difficulty Level
Cohen, Allan S.; Kappy, Kathleen A. – 1980
The ability of the Rasch model to provide item difficulties and achievement test scores which are invariant is studied. Data for the study were obtained from students in grades 3 through 7 who took the Sequential Tests of Educational Progress (STEP III) Reading and Mathematics Concepts tests during a spring norming study. Each test contained 50…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Difficulty Level, Elementary Education, Item Analysis
BIVENS, LYLE W.; AND OTHERS – 1963
TWO GRADE 9 MATH CLASSES (41 STUDENTS) OF LOW ABILITY WERE EACH EXPOSED TO LINEAR AND SELF-DIRECTED (COMPLETE FREEDOM AS TO EXTENT, SEQUENCE, AND METHOD OF STUDY) PROGRAMS ON SET THEORY AND PERMUTATIONS. ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE FOR ACHIEVEMENT TEST SCORES AND MEAN RETENTION SCORES SHOWED NO SIGNIFICANT EFFECT OF PROGRAM TYPE OF STUDY TIME.…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Analysis of Variance, Experiments, Grade 9
LEVINE, NAOMI – 1966
P.S. 192 IN NEW YORK CITY'S HARLEM HAS DEMONSTRATED THAT NEGRO AND PUERTO RICAN STUDENTS CAN ACHIEVE IN A RACIALLY ISOLATED GHETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF A DEDICATED PRINCIPAL. SINCE 1962, WITH A CHANGE OF ADMINISTRATOR ALL FIRST- AND SECOND-GRADE PUPILS HAVE RECEIVED 45 MINUTES OF READING INSTRUCTION THREE OR FOUR TIMES A WEEK,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Black Students, Educational Environment
GOLDBECK, ROBERT A.; AND OTHERS – 1962
THREE PHASES OF THIS PROJECT SOUGHT TO INTRODUCE PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION INTO A ONE MONTH UNIT OF A REQUIRED HIGH SCHOOL GOVERNMENT COURSE WITHOUT RADICALLY DISTURBING CONVENTIONAL TEACHING AND ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES. PHASE I DETERMINED, EXPERIMENTALLY, SUITABLE PROGRAMING TECHNIQUES. PHASE II INVOLVED ONE YEAR OF PILOT EXPERIMENTS IN THE…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude, Conventional Instruction, High School Students
BOBBIN, MARIANNE; HAROOTUNIAN, BERJ – 1967
DIFFERENCES WERE INVESTIGATED IN APTITUDES, STUDY HABITS, AND VALUES AMONG FOUR CATEGORIES OF FEMALE ELEMENTARY EDUCATION MAJORS WHO WERE 1961 AND 1962 FRESHMAN MATRICULANTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE. THE CATEGORIES WERE (1) EDUCATION MAJORS FROM MATRICULATION THROUGH GRADUATION (N 105), (2) EDUCATION MAJORS IN GOOD STANDING WHO WITHDREW (N…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Attitudes, Bibliographies
BIGGE, JEANETTE; SANDEFUR, J.T. – 1965
THE EXTENT TO WHICH A PLANNED PROGRAM OF READING COULD SIGNIFICANTLY INFLUENCE THE BEHAVIOR OF A SELECTED GROUP OF ADOLESCENTS WAS STUDIED. EFFORTS WERE MADE TO DESIGN THE STUDY IN SUCH A WAY THAT THE INVESTIGATORS COULD DETERMINE WHETHER SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES EXISTED IN THE AREAS OF PERSONALITY, PERSONAL PROBLEMS, ACHIEVEMENT, ATTENDANCE, AND…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Behavior Development, Bibliotherapy, Emotional Adjustment
Education Commission of the States, Denver, CO. National Assessment of Educational Progress. – 1975
This document contains 99 exercises from the 1971-72 social studies assessment. The intended audience is researchers who need detailed information about the exercises and state and local educators who want to use the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) exercises in their own assessment programs. The document includes a copy of the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Attitudes, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education
