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Peer reviewedBraden, Jeffery P. – American Annals of the Deaf, 1989
A study of 33 elementary/middle school deaf children correlated Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised Performance Intelligence Quotients (IQs) with Stanford Achievement Test-Hearing Impaired Edition (SAT-HI) grade equivalents and age-based percentiles. A second study of 64 children correlated nonverbal IQs from many tests with SAT-HI…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Concurrent Validity, Deafness, Elementary Secondary Education
Jolly, S. Jean; And Others – 1985
Scores from the Stanford Achievement Tests administered to 50,000 students in Palm Beach County, Florida, were studied in order to determine whether the speeded nature of the reading comprehension subtest was related to inconsistencies in the score profiles. Specifically, the probable effect of random guessing was examined. Reading scores were…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Guessing (Tests), Item Analysis
Gramenz, Gary W.; And Others – 1986
The study reported in this paper examined whether a disproportionate number of boys and girls in a given grade level at various schools might have an inequitable effect on the mean achievement test scores of those schools. The student population of the Palm Beach County Schools, Florida, reflecting a cross-section of socio-economic backgrounds,…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Analysis of Variance, Correlation, Grade 3
Holmes, Susan E. – 1986
This research, conducted for California State Department of Education, is one component of a feasibility study focusing on ways to make the testing process more efficient by application of multi-purpose tests (MPT). MPT are designed, administered and scored to serve more than one purpose and to consolidate and unify testing programs as a partial…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Content Analysis, Correlation
