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Download full textNewkirk, Thomas – 1977
The validity of current standardized competency tests for writing is in doubt as is the need for such testing at all. Some tests, especially those requiring little writing, may not be testing what they purport to test (content validity). Instructional validity (testing what has actually been taught) raises the issue that what is being tested is…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Standardized Tests, Test Bias, Test Interpretation
Bliss, Leonard B. – 1984
A model for the validation of standardized tests of academic achievement upon populations not represented in the samples used to standardize the tests is presented, and the results of a field testing of the model are described. The 1973 editions of the Stanford Achievement Test and the Test of Academic Skills were administered to a sample of…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Item Analysis
Warren, Jonathan R. – 1978
Faculty from fifteen colleges developed open-ended questions to assess group competence in four areas of learning associated with general education--communication skill, analytic thinking, synthesizing ability, and social/cultural awareness. A secondary purpose was to determine faculty expectations for learning in the general education component…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Basic Skills, Cognitive Processes
