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A Review of Academic Achievement Tests: Recommendations for Age Appropriate Administration
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Kozloff, Allison Burstein – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Comprehensive academic achievement tests are routinely used by school psychologists in psycho-educational assessment batteries to identify learning disabled students. A variety of assessment measures are used across age groups to determine if a discrepancy exists between academic achievement and intellectual functioning; however, among the most…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Educational Assessment, Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests
Differential Validity in the ACT Tests
Cole, Nancy S. – ACT Res Rep, 1969
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academic Ability, College Entrance Examinations, Educational Testing
Standardization and Cultural Bias Impediments to the Scientific Study and Validation of "Intelligence."
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Hilliard, Asa G., III – Journal of Research and Development in Education, 1979
The author attacks not only the racism inherent in existing IQ tests, but the very concept of a standardized intelligence test, which, he asserts, lacks certain basic criteria of consistency and validity necessary to a scientific device. Part of a theme issue on intelligence. (SJL)
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Educational Testing, Essays, Intelligence
"Ignorance" versus "Stupidity"--The Basic Disagreement.
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Goodman, Joan F. – School Psychology Digest, 1979
Two criticisms of the System of Multicultural Pluralistic Assessment (SOMPA) are discussed: the alleged abilities of SOMPA to provide an approximate measure of a child's biological capacity to learn and to obtain an approximate measure of a child's basic potential. (See also TM 504 174.) (MH)
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Biological Influences, Diagnostic Tests, Educational Discrimination
SOMPA--A Symposium Continued: Commentaries.
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Clarizio, Harvey F. – School Psychology Digest, 1979
The administration of intelligence tests to various sociocultural groups is defended against charges that intelligence tests are discriminatory (TM 504 174). The author states that research has shown that intelligence tests are nondiscriminatory and comply with federal law, specifically Public Law 94-142. (MH)
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Culture Fair Tests, Disability Discrimination, Educational Discrimination