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Peer reviewedRoyer, James M. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2001
Describes a team-based approach for creating Sentence Verification Technique (SVT) tests, a development procedure that allows teachers and other school personnel to develop comprehension tests from curriculum materials in use in their schools. Finds that if tests are based on materials that are appropriate for the population to be tested, the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Listening Comprehension Tests, Reading Tests
Ebel, Robert L. – 1975
The approach characterizing this study of bias in tests of educational achievement is stated to be reflective and philosophical rather than experimental and statistical. Its concern is with operationally definable areas of learning and indicators of achievement rather than with the hypothetical latent traits that are presumed by some to influence…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Criterion Referenced Tests, Culture Fair Tests, Educational Testing
