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Madni, Ayesha; Kao, Jenny C.; Rivera, Nichole M.; Baker, Eva L.; Cai, Li – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2018
This report is the first in a series of five reports considering career-readiness features within high school assessments. Utilizing feature analysis and cognitive lab interviews, the primary objective of this study was to verify and validate the existence of specific career-readiness features in select math and English language arts (ELA) test…
Descriptors: Career Readiness, High School Students, Test Items, Student Evaluation
Connecticut State Board of Education, Hartford. Bureau of Research, Planning, and Evaluation. – 1984
This booklet provides a brief overview of the Connecticut ninth-grade proficiency test by listing the skills to be assessed on the test. Sample questions exemplifying each skill are also included. Areas assessed include: (1) basic writing skills in the language arts (mechanics of written expression, composing and organizing skills, and library…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Educational Assessment, Grade 9, Junior High Schools
Carrozza, Fay; Jochums, Brenda – 1979
This comprehensive field test report describes a 1978 impact evaluation of the 3-program "Collecting Information" cluster of ThinkAbout, a series of 60 15-minute instructional television programs for fifth and sixth graders designed to strengthen reasoning skills and review and reinforce language arts, mathematics, and study skills. The…
Descriptors: Educational Television, Elementary Education, Field Tests, Information Seeking
Sanders, James R.; Sonnad, Subhash R. – 1982
This volume includes the tests, questionnaires, letters, manuals, findings, and analyses associated with the field evaluation of "ThinkAbout," a series of 60 15-minute programs organized in 13 clusters and designed to strengthen the reasoning skills of fifth and sixth graders, and to review and reinforce language arts, mathematics, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Television, Elementary Education, Field Tests
Ibler, Leslie S. – 1997
This report describes a project designed to expand higher order thinking skills in five primary students with disabilities in order to increase problem solving and decision making skills. The project incorporated higher order thinking skills into mathematics, science and language arts units, and implemented weekly, cooperative learning techniques…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cooperative Learning, Curriculum Design, Decision Making Skills