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Chenoweth, Karin – Black Issues in Higher Education, 1997
While Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) and American College Testing Program (ACT) scores are viewed as reliable, and colleges and universities continue to use them, they are often misunderstood and misused. They are reliable for predicting freshman grades only when comparisons are made within one racial group. They also do not account for student…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Entrance Examinations, College Freshmen, Higher Education
Morris, John R. – New Directions for Testing and Measurement, 1982
Where human beings are concerned and complex behavior is involved, prediction of future performance is no simple matter. Scientifically developed, systematically standardized and carefully validated tests have emerged as the most reliable tools in predictive efficacy. If opponents of standardized testing win, society will lose. (Author/CM)
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Higher Education, Measurement Objectives, Predictive Measurement
Peer reviewedSnow, Catherine E.; And Others – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 1995
Reports on a battery of oral language and early literacy tests, called the SHELL. Describes the tests, presents tasks and scoring system, and provides information about performance by participants in the Home-School Study of Language and Literacy Development. Descriptive, correlational, and predictive analyses based on SHELL-K (kindergarten) and…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Emergent Literacy, Grade 1, Kindergarten
Download full textStofflet, Fred; Fenton, Ray; Straugh, Tom – 2001
In the year 2000, the Alaska High School Graduation Qualifying Examination (HSGQE) was given for the first time. The HSGQE is currently scheduled to be a graduation requirement for all students graduating as of January 2002, but early results from the use of the HSGQE in the Anchorage school district raise serious questions about the use of the…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Graduation Requirements, High School Students, High Schools
Fraser, Barry J. – 1980
This study involved the development, validation, and use of the Individualized Classroom Environment Questionnaire (ICEQ), which measures classroom environment perceptions along dimensions (Personalization, Participation, Independence, Investigation, Differentiation) which differentiate individualized classes from conventional ones. The ICEQ…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Conventional Instruction, Foreign Countries, Individualized Instruction
Peer reviewedOthuon, Lucas; Kishor, Nand – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1994
A hierarchical modeling approach is used in studying the predictive validity of the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education examination, a key aid in selecting students for secondary education. Results from 51 schools indicated a modest predictive validity for the examination, with school and student characteristics influencing results. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Admission (School), Age Differences, Elementary Secondary Education
