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Camilli, Gregory – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2013
In the attempt to identify or prevent unfair tests, both quantitative analyses and logical evaluation are often used. For the most part, fairness evaluation is a pragmatic attempt at determining whether procedural or substantive due process has been accorded to either a group of test takers or an individual. In both the individual and comparative…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Test Bias, Test Content, Test Format
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Ysseldyke, James E.; And Others – Psychology in the Schools, 1973
A multitrait-multimethod matrix was used to ascertain the convergent and discriminant validity of the subtests of the Peabody Individual Achievement Test. Correlations among scores earned by educable mentally retarded children on PIAT and WRAT subtests were similar to those reported for retarded adolescents by Sitlington (1970). (Author)
Descriptors: Achievement, Achievement Tests, Educational Research, Exceptional Child Research
Eichenberger, Rudolph J. – 1972
The purpose of this study was to develop and validate an instrument to assess the creativity of a student through the products he creates. The instrument was called the Judging Criteria Instrument (JCI). This instrument was administered to 33 general physics students. Multiple criteria of teacher judgment scores and Torrance Tests of Creative…
Descriptors: College Science, Creativity, Creativity Tests, Doctoral Dissertations
Ferguson, Richard L. – 1969
The focus of this study was upon the development and evaluation of a computer-assisted branched test to be used in making instructional decisions for individuals in the program of Individually Prescribed Instruction. A Branched Test is one in which the presentation of test items is contingent upon the previous responses of the examinee. The…
Descriptors: Branching, Computer Assisted Instruction, Educational Research, Individual Instruction
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Marlaire, Courtney L.; Maynard, Douglas W. – Sociology of Education, 1990
Describes and analyzes the social organization of testing as an interactional phenomenon. Provides examples of exchanges between clinician and child in a diagnostic testing situation. States these coorientational activities demonstrate that testing has an interactional basis. Explores the implications for research on bias in mental testing. (NL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Diagnostic Tests, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Busch, John Christian; Simon, Lawrence H. – 1972
The rod and frame performance of 70 children, 5 to 7 years of age, with respect to sex and age differences, reliability, and its relationship to general intelligence, was investigated. The rod and frame test was administered individually and again following a period of 35 to 69 days, at which time the Lorge Thorndike Intelligence Test, form 1A,…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Analysis of Variance, Comparative Analysis, Correlation