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Beard, John D., Ed.; McNabb, Scott E., Ed. – 1985
Intended for teachers, this collection of articles on testing in the English language arts contains the following titles: "What Do Test Scores 'Really' Mean in Educational Policy?" by George F. Madaus; "Testing and Literacy: A Contradiction in Terms?" by Marilyn Wilson; "Throwing in the TOWL," by Mary Jane Curry; "Taking the Authority Figure Out…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, English Instruction, English (Second Language), Language Arts
Lundy, Donna S., Ed. – Florida Journal of Communication Disorders, 1999
This issue contains eight articles that represent information on a variety of highly specialized topics involving communicative sciences. Articles include: (1) "The Reliability of the Kay Elemetrics Multidimensional Voice Program (MDVP) for Acoustic Analysis of the Normal Voice" (Ann Marie Cimino and Christine M. Sapienza), which focuses on the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Auditory Evaluation, Bilingual Students, Black Dialects
Download full textRosenthal, Marilynn, Ed.; And Others – Offspring, 1996
These two 1996 issues of the journal "Offspring," a publication of the Michigan Council of Cooperative Nursery Schools, cover a variety of topics familiar to nursery school and day care providers and pertinent to the mission of the publication. Articles are short pieces useful to parents, teachers, and others and aim to provide a forum…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Art, Art Appreciation, Child Health
Peer reviewedBenderson, Albert, Ed. – Focus, 1988
The scores of handicapped students taking tests such as the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) or the Graduate Record Examinations are flagged so that admissions officers will be aware that they were achieved under special circumstances. A series of studies was initiated to determine whether special administrations of such tests are comparable to…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, College Admission, College Entrance Examinations, College Students
Fruen, Mary – NCME Measurement in Education, 1978
There are both strengths and weaknesses of using standardized test scores as a criterion for admission to institutions of higher education. The relative importance of scores is dependent on the institution's degree of selectivity. In general, decision processes and admissions criteria are not well defined. Advantages of test scores include: use of…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, College Admission, College Entrance Examinations, Competitive Selection
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1979
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 30 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: use of short and long passages in informal reading inventories, components in decoding spelling patterns, the psycholinguistic analysis of oral reading miscues and…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Annotated Bibliographies, Cloze Procedure, Doctoral Dissertations
Ford, Bridgie Alexis, Ed. – Multiple Voices for Ethnically Diverse Exceptional Learners, 1999
This publication is designed to address new paradigms such as research, policies, and daily school practices which tend to reduce or perpetuate inequities in educational opportunities for culturally and linguistically diverse individuals with disabilities and/or gifts and talents. This particular issue includes articles that discuss referrals of…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Blacks, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences
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