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PIAAC Technical Standards and Guidelines
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OECD Publishing, 2014
The Programme for International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) will establish technical standards and guidelines to ensure that the survey design and implementation processes of PIAAC yield high-quality and internationally comparable data. This document provides a revised version of the technical standards and guidelines originally…
Descriptors: Adults, International Assessment, Adult Literacy, Competence
Classroom/Behavior Management Skills Assessment Inventory.
Grossman, Herbert – 1991
San Jose State University's School of Education is developing a pre/post test instrument to evaluate the effectiveness of classroom/behavior management courses offered to preservice education trainees. Expert input was sought from professors who teach courses on classroom/behavior management in order to find out what level of agreement would exist…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Classroom Techniques, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education
A Profile Graph for Interpreting the Detroit Tests of Learning Aptitude.
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Bohning, Gerry – Psychology in the Schools, 1979
These tests provide one source of diagnostic data to support educational decisions for learning disabled children. The Profile Graph expedites communication of diagnostic assessment results to parents and teachers, and is a useful source of information in making placement and program planning decisions for learning disabled children. (Author)
Descriptors: Children, Educational Planning, Learning Disabilities, Learning Problems
Thinking Styles: What Kind of Thinker Are You?
Harrison, Allen F.; Bramson, Robert M. – Computer Decisions, 1983
Presented is a questionnaire to help individuals determine their own unique thinking style: pragmatist, analyst, realist, synthesist, and idealist. Questionnaire is from "Styles of Thinking: Strategies for Asking Questions, Making Decisions, and Solving Problems" by Robert Bramson and Allen Harrison. (JN)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Decision Making, Individual Characteristics, Personality Traits
Indirect Costs of Health Research--How They are Computed, What Actions are Needed. Report by the Comptroller General of the United States.
Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1979
A review by the General Accounting Office of various aspects of indirect costs associated with federal health research grants is presented. After an introduction detailing the scope of the review and defining indirect costs and federal participation, the report focuses on the causes of the rapid increase of indirect costs. Among findings was that…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Computation, Costs, Educational Finance
North American Higher Education Cooperation: An Inventory of U.S.-Canada and U.S.-Mexico Academic Linkages.
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Institute of International Education, New York, NY. – 1993
This report describes the variety of bilateral linkages which have been developed by U.S. institutions with specific Canadian and Mexican colleges in a wide range of fields. Out of 1,219 U.S. colleges and universities responding (35 percent response rate) to a survey concerning educational linkages, 109 reported linkages with Canadian…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Data Collection, Educational Cooperation, Exchange Programs
Un Test contrastif oral pour l'evaluation des difficultes lexicales dans l'apprentissage de l'anglais L2 (An Oral Contrastive Test for the Evaluation of Lexical Difficulties in Learning English as a Second Language).
Haeusser, Christiane – Travaux de l'Institut de Phonetique d'Aix, 1978
The test described here is a particular type of diagnostic test; it is part of a series of tests designed to explore systematically areas of potential lexical difficulty in the English language for French-speaking students of English. The lexical units are considered under their formal, morphological, syntactic and semantic aspects. The test has…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Diagnostic Tests, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)