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Peer reviewedWardrop, James L.; And Others – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1982
A structure for describing different approaches to testing is generated by identifying five dimensions along which tests differ: test uses, item generation, item revision, assessment of precision, and validation. These dimensions are used to profile tests of reading comprehension. Only norm-referenced achievement tests had an inference system…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Comparative Analysis, Educational Testing, Models
Baldauf, Richard B., Jr.; Morley, Robert – Exceptional Child, 1979
Results of the pilot study indicated that the matching cloze procedure--which does not require language production skills--may provide the classroom teacher of educable mentally retarded children with an evaluation procedure which is both psychometrically and ontologically valid, as well as being easy to construct. (Author/DLS)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Educational Testing, Exceptional Child Research, Prevocational Education
