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Sawtell, Ellen A.; Sathy, Viji; Skrobela, David A. – College Board, 2007
Presented at the Association for Institutional Research (AIR) in Kansas City in June 2007. This presentation explores what has been learned in the effort to maintain the ability to collect demographic information on SAT test takers when registration moved to the web. The information which is collected for research purposes include student's…
Descriptors: Response Rates (Questionnaires), Computer Assisted Testing, Testing Problems, Questionnaires
Sawtell, Ellen A. – College Board, 2005
Presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Conference in San Diego in May 2005. This presentation explores the issues and problems with declining response rates to the questionnaire once test registration moved from paper format to a web platform. A decline would affect research over time so interventions were put in place…
Descriptors: Response Rates (Questionnaires), Computer Assisted Testing, Testing Problems, College Entrance Examinations
deSilva, W. A. – CORE: Collected Original Resources in Education, 1978
The way students, aged 12 through 16, ascribed meaning to coded words representing historical terms, based on contextual clues, was studied. Intelligence, grammatical ability, cultural background, and interest in history were also examined. (Author/MH)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Concept Formation, Context Clues