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Mazer, Irene R. – 1981
The need to determine eligibility for a program for intellectually gifted students resulted in combining deviation scores on achievement, aptitude, ability and motivation measures into a matrix score. These matrix scores and the students' success in the program were determined for present participants. Students were classified as successful or…
Descriptors: Eligibility, Evaluation Methods, Gifted, Scores
Hetrick, Ethel – 1980
In Louisiana, the Early Childhood Evaluation Project undertook to study the feasibility of screening preschool children for potential handicaps in rural and urban areas using relatively untrained university students and to evaluate the cost effectiveness of different screening instruments. Findings showed that the largest number of children were…
Descriptors: College Students, Cost Effectiveness, Disabilities, Evaluation Methods
Ray, George B. – 1980
A study sought to determine what relationships existed between speech rate, speech pitch variation, speech loudness, and the personality assessments made by listeners. The subjects, 214 undergraduate speech communication students, listened to one of eight tape recordings made by a male speaker to represent all the combinations of the three…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Correlation, Factor Analysis, Higher Education
Download full textIlott, H. G.; Ilott, J. F. D. – 1993
This study was conducted to identify characteristics of the most academically successful graduates of a teacher education program at the University of Alberta (Canada). Graphical data provide information about all of the graduates; tabular displays provide more specific information about those who graduated with distinction. For example, students…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academic Achievement, Achievement Rating, College Graduates
Rizavi, Saba; Hariharan, Swaminathan – Online Submission, 2001
The advantages that computer adaptive testing offers over linear tests have been well documented. The Computer Adaptive Test (CAT) design is more efficient than the Linear test design as fewer items are needed to estimate an examinee's proficiency to a desired level of precision. In the ideal situation, a CAT will result in examinees answering…
Descriptors: Guessing (Tests), Test Construction, Test Length, Computer Assisted Testing
Rizavi, Saba; Way, Walter D.; Lu, Ying; Pitoniak, Mary; Steffen, Manfred – Online Submission, 2004
The purpose of this study was to use realistically simulated data to evaluate various CAT designs for use with the verbal reasoning measure of the Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT). Factors such as item pool depth, content constraints, and item formats often cause repeated adaptive administrations of an item at ability levels that are not…
Descriptors: Test Items, Test Bias, Item Banks, College Admission
