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Download full textGED Testing Service, 2016
This guide is designed to help adult educators and administrators better understand the content of the GED® test. This guide is tailored to each test subject and highlights the test's item types, assessment targets, and guidelines for how items will be scored. This 2016 edition has been updated to include the most recent information about the…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Teaching Guides, High School Equivalency Programs, Test Items
Whitney, Douglas R.; And Others – 1985
This preview of the Tests of General Educational Development (GED) to be introduced in 1988 begins with a brief background of the review process that will result in the GED Test. An overview of committee recommendations then highlights five themes of Test Specifications Committee panel reports: the tests should (1) demand more highly developed…
Descriptors: Adult Education, High School Equivalency Programs, Test Format, Test Items
Camburn, Lila – 1987
The revised General Educational Development (GED) tests introduced in 1988 require higher-level analytical skills of examinees than previous tests. The most immediate revision is the writing skills test, which requires examinees to demonstrate writing ability. This guide provides the GED student with a plan for writing an essay that will receive a…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Essays, High School Equivalency Programs, Teaching Guides
Frey, Marlin L. – 1982
A unique program for providing General Educational Development (GED) diploma testing is described in this document which includes a brief description of the program, a press release, and a brochure. The program, developed by the Newton, Kansas, Unified School District No. 373, is intended to encourage truck drivers to get their diplomas by…
Descriptors: Evening Programs, High School Equivalency Programs, Pamphlets, Program Descriptions
Whitney, Douglas R.; And Others – 1985
This research brief summarizes the available reliability and validity data available in, but spread throughout, a number of General Educational Development (GED) Testing Service publications. A section on reliability discusses how to determine reliability of a test's scores and two ways of assessing the reliability of a test--internal consistency…
Descriptors: Adult Education, High School Equivalency Programs, Item Analysis, Scores
Reiff, Tana; Jamula, Melissa – 1986
This booklet is both a description of activities to organize a General Educational Development program (GED) alumni association and a guide to starting an alumni group. It specifically focuses on "Operation Alumni," a project to establish a local GED alumni organization at Reading Area Community College that could serve as a state model…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Programs, Alumni, Alumni Associations
Molek, Carol – 1988
This report and reference booklet is designed to provide adult education supervisors, instructors, and General Educational Development (GED) students and alumni with information to establish GED alumni associations as part of the adult basic education program. The final report details the GED Alumni Stretch and Reach project, which was proposed to…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Alumni, Alumni Associations, Guides
Stoker, Howard W. – 1986
To identify characteristics of students in Florida's Early Exit Program (EEP) with respect to their performance in high school, names and General Educational Development (GED) test scores were obtained for all students who passed the GED tests as part of the EEP between January 1, 1981, and May 1, 1983. Four districts were identified that had…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Acceleration (Education), Comparative Analysis, Educational Research
Sapin, Connie; Bloem, Pat; Padak, Nancy – 1997
This supplement to an annotated bibliography describes nearly 100 books that are appropriate for use with adult learners. Some of the titles in this supplement are books best used for independent reading, but most have strong instructional ties. The supplement contains many books that can be useful in General Educational Development (GED)…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Childrens Literature, High School Equivalency Programs
Matson, Susan – 1988
This paper suggests techniques that teachers who prepare adult students for the General Educational Development (GED) tests can use with students who have learning disabilities. The first part of the paper presents a brief overview of symptoms exhibited by students who are learning disabled. Symptoms are classified under general behaviors,…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Style, Educational Diagnosis
American Council on Education, Washington, DC. General Educational Development Testing Service. – 1984
This document, prepared as a conference handout, consists of a description of the revised General Educational Development (GED) Tests scheduled for introduction in 1988 and a series of recommendations concerning the content of future GED tests, which were formulated by a committee appointed by the Commission on Educational Credit and Credentials…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Equivalency Tests, High School Equivalency Programs, Models
Glustrom, Merrill – 1987
This bibliography is divided into three sections. Section I, Review of General Educational Development (GED) Publisher Composition Texts, reviews extensively the texts published by Cambridge, Contemporary, Scott Foresman, and Steck-Vaughn to enable the instructor to choose a primary text. The reviews tell the exact instructional sequence of the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Annotated Bibliographies, High School Equivalency Programs, Testing
Vucinich, Janet; O'Conlin, Michaele – 1988
This handbook is intended to provide teachers with background information about the writing skills needed by General Educational Development (GED) students as well as practical instructional activities for use in the adult basic education/GED classroom. A guide to using the ideabook explains the POWER format that involves Prewriting, Organizing,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Behavioral Objectives, High School Equivalency Programs, Learning Activities
Cotsworth, Vickie; O'Hara, Katha – 1984
Project LIFTS (Learning Improvement through Teaching Strategies) was designed to serve adult basic education (ABE) students enrolled at Johnson County Community College (Kansas) who are diagnosed as having a specific learning disability. These students enrolled in Basic English, a pre-General Educational Development Test preparation class, and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Grammar, High School Equivalency Programs, Inservice Teacher Education
Guthrie, Barbara – 2000
A study was conducted at a program in rural southwest Virginia to determine whether Head Start parents and adult basic education/high school equivalency program students use critical thinking skills. More than 50 definitions of critical thinking were collected, and Bloom's Taxonomy was reviewed for background information. The teachers' manual for…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Classroom Techniques, Critical Thinking, High School Equivalency Programs
