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Download full textMarco, Gary L. – 1972
An overall analysis is made of the impact of Grade 3 Title I reading programs in the State of Michigan. An attempt is made to estimate the effectiveness of particular reading programs for low-scoring, middle-scoring, and high-scoring pupils for the purpose of identifying exemplary programs. In addition, a rank ordering of the various programs…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Data Collection, Educational Research, Evaluation Methods
Vale, Carol A.; Bianchini, John C. – 1973
This report contains the selected descriptive analysis of the Anchor Test Study. Data originates in the public school segment of the national sample of grades 4, 5, and 6 who were administered the appropriate level of the Metropolitan Achievement Test (MAT): Reading, Form F. A description of the determination of the data base, of the analyses and…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Correlation, Data Analysis, Demography
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. – 1966
VARIOUS ASPECTS OF A NEW YORK CITY COMMUNITY ZONING PLAN (CZP) ARE EVALUATED IN THIS REPORT. INITIATED IN 1964, THE PLAN WAS DESIGNED TO IMPROVE THE ETHNIC BALANCE IN THE SCHOOLS BY PAIRING SELECTED ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS TO CREATE SINGLE ATTENDANCE ZONES. STUDENTS IN THE LOWER GRADES ATTENDED ONE SCHOOL WHILE THOSE IN THE UPPER GRADES ATTENDED THE…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Administrator Evaluation, Arithmetic, Attendance
Peer reviewedAsbury, Charles A. – Journal of Experimental Education, 1973
Investigation was undertaken to add to, strengthen, and clarify already existing research relating relevant sociological background factors to the discrepant school achievement of white and black, economically deprived, rural, first grade children. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Children, Elementary School Students, Family Structure
South Carolina State Dept. of Education, Columbia. – 1996
The Metropolitan Achievement Test, Seventh Edition (MAT7) reports percentages of student test scores above the 50th U.S. national percentile (top half of the distribution of student test scores) and percentage in each national quarter. Having more students than 50% above the 50th national percentile means that achievement was higher than the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Public Schools
Bianchini, John C.; Loret, Peter G. – 1974
The Anchor Test Study provides a method for translating a pupil's score on any one of eight widely used standardized reading tests for Grades 4, 5, and 6 to a corresponding score of any of the other seven tests, as well as furnishing new nationally representative norms for each of the eight tests. In addition, the Study presents new estimates of…
Descriptors: Correlation, Equated Scores, Grade 4, Measurement Techniques
PDF pending restorationBianchini, John C.; Loret, Peter G. – 1974
The Anchor Test Study provides a method for translating a pupil's score on any one of eight widely used standardized reading tests for Grades 4, 5, and 6 to a corresponding score of any of the other seven tests, as well as furnishing new nationally representative norms for each of the eight tests. In addition, the Study presents new estimates of…
Descriptors: Correlation, Equated Scores, Grade 5, Measurement Techniques
PDF pending restorationBianchini, John C.; Loret, Peter G. – 1974
The Anchor Test Study provides a method for translating a pupil's score on any one of eight widely used standardized reading tests for Grades 4, 5, and 6 to a corresponding score of any of the other seven tests, as well as furnishing new nationally representative norms for each of the eight tests. In addition, the Study presents new estimates of…
Descriptors: Correlation, Equated Scores, Grade 6, Measurement Techniques
JUSTMAN, JOSEPH – 1967
RESEARCH FINDINGS ON ABILITY GROUPING ARE INCONCLUSIVE BECAUSE NEITHER HETEROGENEITY NOR HOMOGENEITY HAS BEEN DEFINED WITH SUFFICIENT CLARITY. THE TENDENCY IN THESE STUDIES HAS BEEN TO STRESS THE PERFORMANCE OF THE PUPILS IN SUCH CLASSES RATHER THAN THE PERFORMANCE OF THE CLASS AS A WHOLE. IN A STUDY OF 181 CLASSES (4,705 PUPILS) HOMOGENEITY WAS…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Achievement Gains, Data, Elementary Schools
Zimiles, Herbert; Silk, Stephen – 1967
To contribute to a more differentiated description of the cognitive status of young disadvantaged children, a comparative study was made of achievement test performance of disadvantaged and middle class groups of children. On the basis of published reading test scores, test data were gathered from nine public schools, four of which were selected…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Cognitive Ability, Comparative Analysis, Compensatory Education
Hogan, Thomas P.; Beck, Michael – 1974
Scores on standardized tests may be expressed in a variety of different modes. Raw scores, grade equivalents, percentile ranks, stanines, and standard scores are the major types in use today. The study investigated whether the mode or scale used to express scores affected the magnitude of group statistics, specifically, t and r (the t-test of the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Correlation, Grade 4, Groups
Beck, Michael D. – 1975
A sizable representative subsample of the standardization group for the Metropolitan Achievement Tests participated in both the Fall and Spring standardization programs. Fall and Spring test records were matched for all such pupils and Fall-Spring "growth expectancies" were derived. Additionally, the sample was split into three subgroups…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Growth Patterns, National Norms
Innes, Thomas C.; Cormier, William H. – 1973
The adequacy of using a combination of criterion-scaled non-school variables to predict achievement score means of schools is discussed. Non-school data gathered on eighth-grade students were criterion-scaled, using the total score of the Metropolitan Achievement Test. Eight non-school category scores and actual achievement scores of selected…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Item Analysis, Performance Factors
Feeney, J. D.; And Others – 1968
This experiment investigated the significance of spontaneous occurrence of number symbols in the drawings of 86 (23 male pairs and 20 female pairs) kindergarten children. A comparison was made of first grade achievement on the Piaget Number Concept Test of students who used alphabetic and numeric symbols in the Draw-a-Classroom Test in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Testing, Concept Formation, Kindergarten Children
Toronto Board of Education (Ontario). Research Dept. – 1964
This 1964 report briefly describes a large-scale longitudinal study to assess the achievement of all students who entered the Toronto school system in either junior kindergarten (1960) or senior kindergarten (1961). To assess the effect of kindergarten on the students' later school achievement, and to examine the nature of school failure, it was…
Descriptors: Achievement, Achievement Tests, Behavior Rating Scales, Creativity
