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National Council on Measurement in Education, Washington, DC. – 1980
A major objective of the measurement profession continues to be the assurance of high quality tests and proper test use. The National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) constitutes a group of testing practitioners, scholars, and specialists with well-informed opinions on matters of educational measurement and testing. NCME regards it as…
Descriptors: Accountability, Admission (School), College Entrance Examinations, Higher Education
Sirois, Herman A. – 1978
Using the constructs of Rogers, Ellis, and Barrett-Lennard, a twenty-five item Likert-type instrument, the Non-Directive Supervisory Behavior Scale, was developed to measure directive vs. non-directive supervisory behavior. One hundred ninety-five in-service teachers, randomly selected from two school districts, completed the twenty-five item…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Factor Structure, Research Reports, Supervisors
Day, H. D.; Day, Kaaren C. – 1978
The Concepts about Print (Sand) and Record of Oral Language (ROL) tests were administered three times to 29 male and 27 female kindergarten children as part of a study to determine the reliability and concurrent validity of the tests. The Sand and Metropolitan Readiness Test (MRT) were administered to the returning participants (27 males and 24…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Kindergarten, Primary Education, Reading Diagnosis
GOSLIN, DAVID A. – 1967
BESIDES QUESTIONS ABOUT THE VALIDITY OF TESTS AS PREDICTORS, AN IMPORTANT ISSUE IS THEIR SOCIAL EFFECTS IN FOUR AREAS--(1) THE INFLUENCE OF TEST SCORES ON THE OPPORTUNITIES OPEN TO INDIVIDUALS, (2) THE INFLUENCE OF TEST SCORES ON THE KINDS OF ADVICE GIVEN IN SCHOOLS AND COUNSELING AGENCIES, (3) THE EFFECTS OF SUCH "OBJECTIVE" INFORMATION ON AN…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Intelligence, Self Evaluation, Social Influences
Download full textRyckman, David B.; Wiegerink, Ronald – 1968
This study was designed to factor analyze the correlation matrices of a number of studies utilizing the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities (ITPA). All of the correlation matrices were analyzed on the same program using the same criteria. By this approach, it was possible to examine trends between studies. More factors tended to appear as…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Diagnostic Tests, Factor Analysis
Wright, John C.; And Others – 1978
This report evaluating the Kansas Reflection-Impulsivity Scale for Preschoolers (KRISP), developed as an easier task version of the Matching Familiar Figures Test for school-age children, presents an analysis of data on 1,408 children of widely varying backgrounds. Eighteen samples of children, ranging in age from 2 years and 5 months to 6 years…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Tests, Conceptual Tempo, Error Patterns
Tuckman, Bruce Wayne
Originally designed to provide teachers with feedback and also used as a quantitative tool for specifying teacher behavior consistent with a psychological model of teaching described by Tuckman (1974), the Tuckman Teacher Feedback Form (TTFF) is a 28-item semantic differential which generates four scores in the areas of creativity, dynamism…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Techniques, Feedback, Semantic Differential
Ory, John C.; Poggio, John P. – 1975
The construction of an objective, self-report, objectively-scored measure of achievement motivation is reported. Empirically keyed items were developed, reflecting empirical results found in a review of achievement motivation literature. An initial item pool consisting of 153 self-report items was administered using a matrix sampling approach to…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, College Students, Factor Analysis, Factor Structure
Marzano, Robert J. – 1975
The purpose of this study was to examine the reliability of the analytical method of grading essays in relation to the holistic method. It was hypothesized that the use of the analytic method to rate college composition papers produces high rater reliability at the expense of biasing the raters and thus lowering the validity of the grades. Six…
Descriptors: Educational Research, English Instruction, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
Larsson, Bernt – Didakometry, 1974
Subjects are asked to answer six questions, partly with a frequency and partly by marking a verbally anchored scale with five categories. Some univariate and multivariate analyses are performed to elucidate the relations between variables with the two different modes of response. Although there are similarities in results for the two types of…
Descriptors: Measurement Techniques, Measures (Individuals), Rating Scales, Responses
Glock, Marvin D. – 1970
Three basic concerns in measurement were selected, and their importance for the classroom teacher were illustrated. These were test validity, reliability, and problems in measuring achievement gains. Test validity was dependent upon content, type and quality of the questions, adequacy with which the test sampled reading skills, and the care with…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Measurement, Measurement Techniques, Questioning Techniques
Carver, Ronald P. – 1969
Four conceptually different variables in reading: (1) knowledge gained (new information), (2) amount comprehended (degree of understanding), (3) reading aptitude (differences between individuals), and (4) reading improvement (within individual changes as a result of treatment) are discussed. Existing measures of reading comprehension are evaluated…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests, Test Construction
Thomas, Hollie B. – 1974
The Career Development Responsibility scale was designed to measure the extent to which students feel that reinforcement in terms of success in preparation-acquisition performance situations in a career are considered to be contingent on the student's own behavior. The 30-item instrument was written so that two items represent each cell of a 3x5…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Development, Career Education, Career Guidance
Pyrczak, Fred – 1973
The general purpose of this study was to determine the effects of similarities between stems and keyed choices on test difficulty. Unlike previous investigations of this undesirable characteristic of some multiple-choice items, the present study employed items that were unintentionally faulty and samples of examinees who were highly experienced…
Descriptors: Item Analysis, Multiple Choice Tests, Research Reports, Test Construction
Lapp, Diane – 1970
The Behavioral Objectives Writing Skills Test (BOWST) was designed to provide an estimate of the elementary teacher's ability to write behavioral objectives. This instrument, which requires the teacher to develop three behavioral objectives for each of four hypothetical classroom settings, has wide utility as a teacher-training tool. It may be…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Elementary Education, Higher Education, Scoring
