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SOAR, ROBERT S. – 1962
NEWLY DEVELOPED MEASURES OF CLASSROOM BEHAVIOR AND THE DETERMINATION OF THEIR EFFECTIVENESS IN PREDICTING EFFECTIVE TEACHER-PUPIL INTERACTION WERE INVESTIGATED. THE MEASURES OF TEACHER CHARACTERISTICS WERE CORRELATED WITH PUPIL CHARACTERISTICS FROM WHICH ANALYSES IT WAS CONCLUDED THAT NO DEFINITE CONCLUSIONS COULD BE DRAWN NOR COULD REASONS BE…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Classroom Environment, Elementary School Teachers, Evaluation Methods
Download full textCullen, Robert J.; Katzenmeyer, Conrad G. – 1970
The components of school satisfaction among eighth graders as measured by the Student Opinion Poll (SOP) and the relationships of these components with various achievement and ability scores were determined through factor analysis. Four components of school satisfaction were interpretable in meaningful terms: teacher student relationships, student…
Descriptors: Ability, Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Attitudes
Flaugher, Ronald L.; And Others – 1969
A total of 168 Negro and 296 white Medical Technicians participated in this study. A nine-scale performance rating form was developed and administered. Every technician was rated by at least two supervisors. A test of job knowledge was also given to all subjects. Among the correlations found were: (1) Negro workers received distinctly higher…
Descriptors: Black Employment, Blacks, Employment, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedBowers, Thomas G.; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1992
This study examined the utility of Wechsler's Deterioration Index, which compares short- and long-term memory capabilities. Three studies with a total of 120 children (ages 6-14) found that the index did not predict learning disability status but did distinguish children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder from nondisabled children.…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Diagnostic Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Haugen, Julie D. Bass – 1990
Making decisions about residential or day program placement for adults with developmental disabilities requires examination of multidimensional measures of behavior and thus the use of multivariate statistical techniques along with expert opinion. This study used adaptive and maladaptive cluster scores on the Inventory for Client and Agency…
Descriptors: Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Adults, Behavior Problems, Behavior Rating Scales
Weeks, Joseph L. – 1981
The optimal allocation of Air Force talent requires, among other considerations, the measurement of both enlistee aptitudes and job aptitude requirements. Although objective procedures are available to measure aptitudes accurately, the procedure presently employed for establishing relative aptitude requirements is both unsystematic and subject to…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Aptitude, Aptitude Tests, Aptitude Treatment Interaction
Osborn, Julia B. – 1979
The Pre-Reading Assessment Inventory (PRAI) was designed to fill a need for a wide-range, individually administered diagnostic test of a child's prereading skills (especially auditory blending and segmenting), knowledge, encoding and decoding strategies, and understandings about the reading task. The test development was based upon the research…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Diagnostic Tests, Early Childhood Education, Educational Strategies
Ruch, William W. – 1972
A survey of recent literature was undertaken to locate validity studies of paper-and-pencil tests which met the following criteria: (1) Studies were conducted in a business or industrial (i.e. non-education, non-military) setting; (2) Separate statistics were available for blacks and whites; (3) Race was not confounded with some outside variable…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Black Employment, Data, Employment Opportunities
Pitter, Gita Wijesinghe; And Others – 1997
This paper discusses issues surrounding the use of licensure examination results as measures of outcome in institutions of higher education. Based on informal telephone surveys of several state university systems, and on information obtained from national certification organizations, faculty experts, reviews of the literature, and the experience…
Descriptors: Accrediting Agencies, Certification, College Outcomes Assessment, Curriculum Based Assessment
International Personnel Management Association, Washington, DC. – 1984
Thirteen papers are presented that discuss issues in public personnel decision making, specifically in the area of personnel selection. After an introduction by James P. Springer, the following papers are presented: (1) "History of Employment Testing" (Matthew Hale); (2) "Job Families: A Review and Discussion of Their Implications for Personnel…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Decision Making, Employment Practices, Evaluation Criteria
Houston, Walter M. – 1988
Two methods of using collateral information from similar institutions to predict college freshman grade average were investigated. One central prediction model, referred to as pooled least squares with adjusted intercepts, assumes that slopes and residual variances are homogeneous across selected colleges. The second model, referred to as Bayesian…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, College Freshmen, Colleges, Comparative Analysis
Butler, Roberta J. – 1978
A study was undertaken to examine the traditional method of evaluating teachers, the multiple-evidence approach used by the University of Georgia's field-based preservice secondary English education program and by the Georgia Department of Education. The study sought to evaluate the instruments used by the university to measure prospective…
Descriptors: English Education, English Teacher Education, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
Fleming, Dan B. – 1974
In this paper, the author reviews a number of criticisms that have been made of the use of standardized tests in the social studies and reviews 11 general, skills, and discipline-oriented standardized tests for social studies. Standardized tests evaluating the results of the new social studies courses are open to criticism on the basis of…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Measurement Techniques, National Competency Tests, Predictive Measurement
Andrew, Barbara J.; And Others – 1976
This report of the development and validation of a criterion-referenced examination for physician's assistants contains an overview of phase 1 project activities (1972-74) and more detailed description and data on phase 2 activities (1975-76). The overview describes the rationale for the development of the examination. (It was the first certifying…
Descriptors: Certification, Criterion Referenced Tests, Evaluation Methods, Interpersonal Competence
Jorgensen, C. C.; Hoffer, P. L. – 1978
Developed for application in Air Force weapons systems training programs, a research project investigated the methods, procedures, and data available for conducting cost and training effectiveness analyses (CTEA). The primary objective of the project was to develop a user-oriented procedure for early formulation of training programs that can be…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Cost Estimates, Data Analysis, Equipment Utilization
