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Peer reviewedJacobs, Stanley S. – Research in Higher Education, 1995
Comparison of college freshman performance on two different forms of the California Critical Thinking Skills Test (n=684, 692) found a lack of equivalence between forms and low internal consistency reliability. It is suggested that, although the test may be useful for research, it is not appropriate for decision making about individual students.…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis, Critical Thinking, Educational Research
Download full textGaffney, Patrick V.; Byrd-Gaffney, Sharon – 1996
The Pupil Control Ideology Form (PCI) is one of the major instruments used by researchers interested in the study of school climate. Pupil control is a central feature of the organizational life of schools, and each school appears to have a prevailing ideology of pupil control. The PCI is a self-report instrument used to measure an educator's…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Cross Cultural Studies, Discipline, Educational Environment
Peer reviewedTraub, Ross E. – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1990
Describes five propositions concerning classroom assessment. Uses propositions to review seven conference papers. Propositions refer to the following: nature of achievement; student information necessary to interpret assessments; tension between need to describe and need to praise; distinction between formal and informal assessment; and need for…
Descriptors: Achievement, Educational Research, Evaluation Methods, Measures (Individuals)
Vispoel, Walter P.; Chen, Ping – 1990
Currently available measures of self-efficacy described in educational and psychological research literature were cataloged and reviewed after a literature search. To identify and locate these measures, searches of "Psychological Abstracts" and the ERIC system were conducted using self-efficacy and related keywords. Results of the…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Educational Research, Literature Reviews, Meta Analysis
Takala, Sauli – 1985
A review of literature serves as the basis for a discussion of various aspects of criterion-referenced tests. The aspects discussed are: teaching and evaluation objectives, criterion- and norm-referenced measurement, stages in construction of criterion-referenced tests, construction and selection of items, test validity, and test reliability.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Kohonen, Viljo, Ed.; Pitkanen, Antti J., Ed. – 1985
Eighteen papers, 11 in English, and 6 in Finnish and 1 in German are presented on the general theme "Language--Knowledge and Skill," a theme that emphasizes the need to examine the communicative goal in foreign language education from the perspective of both theory and practice. The English-language articles on foreign language testing,…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Communication Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages), Educational Policy
