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Muir, Sharon Pray – 1976
The purpose of this study was to construct a device to measure the cognitive outcomes of inquiry social studies among fourth through sixth grade students. Seventy-five items judged to reflect the cognitive levels of comprehension, application, analysis, and evaluation formed an experimental test given to 694 students. The students were enrolled in…
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Research, Elementary Education
Download full textRoyer, James M.; Cunningham, Donald J. – 1978
The minimal comprehension principle asserts that the act of comprehension must entail an interaction between an incoming linguistic message and the reader's world knowledge. An analysis of current tests of reading comprehension indicates that test passages are likely to draw broadly from knowledge of the world, so that some of the variability in…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Performance Factors, Reading Achievement, Reading Comprehension
Hsu, Yi-Ming; Scott, Owen – 1977
The development of the Evaluation Instrument for Experimental Research (EIFER), an inventory for appraising research quality, is described. The EIFER was specifically designed to aid students in introductory courses in educational and psychological research methods to evaluate published research reports. A survey conducted among specialists in…
Descriptors: College Students, Educational Research, Evaluation Criteria, Higher Education
Lapan, Stephen D. – 1976
The purpose of this study was to develop and validate an instrument to collect student judgments regarding their teacher's credibility. Items were developed and evidence of content validity generated. A pilot sample and a final sample of high school students were administered the Source Credibility Measure (SCM) so that actual response data could…
Descriptors: Credibility, Factor Analysis, Factor Structure, High School Students
O'Reilly, Robert P.; And Others – 1976
This report summarizes the development and validation of a test of literal comprehension based on a modified cloze technique. This modification of the cloze offers an objective and partially computerized procedure for constructing items in the multiple-choice format. A field test of the multiple-choice cloze (MCC) involved the administration of 36…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Elementary Secondary Education, Factor Analysis, Item Analysis
Morse, David T.; Morse, Linda W. – 1976
Performance testing often entails the usage of expensive, time-consuming measures in the quest for determining the level of performance on some desired behavior. It is concluded that a generalizability theory approach to dealing with departures from reality in testing can aid in the establishment of empirically-based choices of measurement…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making, Mathematical Models, Measurement Techniques
Manpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. U.S. Training and Employment Service. – 1970
The United States Training and Employment Service General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB), first published in 1947, has been included in a continuing program of research to validate the tests against success in many different occupations. The GATB consists of 12 tests which measure nine aptitudes: General Learning Ability; Verbal Aptitude; Numerical…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Career Guidance, Cutting Scores, Engineering
Manpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. U.S. Training and Employment Service. – 1966
The United States Training and Employment Service General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB), first published in 1947, has been included in a continuing program of research to validate the tests against success in many different occupations. The GATB consists of 12 tests which measure nine aptitudes: General Learning Ability; Verbal Aptitude; Numerical…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Career Guidance, Cutting Scores, Evaluation Criteria
Manpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. U.S. Training and Employment Service. – 1962
The United States Training and Employment Service General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB), first published in 1947, has been included in a continuing program of research to validate the tests against success in many different occupations. The GATB consists of 12 tests which measure nine aptitudes: General Learning Ability; Verbal Aptitude; Numerical…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Career Guidance, Cutting Scores, Evaluation Criteria
Wright, E.N.; Wyman, W.C. – 1974
This paper is part 3 of Research Department Report Number 123, "Exploring the T.R.Q.: An Assessment of the Effectiveness of the Teachers' Rating Questionnaire," which gave questionnaire users information necessary to tailor the instrument to their own needs. Retention of TRQ questions which generated good distributions of teacher ratings…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Communication Skills, Creativity, Elementary Education
Wyman, W.C.; Wright, E.N. – 1974
This report assesses the validity, reliability, and efficiency of the Teachers' Rating Questionnaire (TRQ), a pupils' school success measure developed in connection with a 1961 longitudinal Study of Achievement. TRQ ratings on nearly 14,000 pupils, gathered in the Study of Achievement and a New Canadian Report, constituted the data source.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Correlation, Elementary Education, Predictive Measurement
Simon, Alan J.; Joiner, Lee M. – 1974
The effectiveness of test adaptation based on item selection and reordering of a Spanish (Mexican) version of the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) was examined. Translated forms were administered to a sample of Mexican students. One item from each pair (A and B) was selected and reordered using a priori rules. The revised instrument was…
Descriptors: Culture Fair Tests, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Intelligence Tests
Smith, John E.; And Others
The purpose of this study was to construct and validate a self-rating scale which can be easily administered and quickly scored for discriminating between those high school students who will dropout and those who will not. A 34-item scale was constructed for subjects with a fifth grade reading level. This scale was administered to 113 high school…
Descriptors: Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Research, Dropouts, High School Students
Gallaudet Coll., Washington, DC. Office of Demographic Studies. – 1969
The objectives of the annual survey of hearing impaired children and youth which are presented are to collect, process, and disseminate statistical information on characteristics of all hearing impaired individuals through college age. One aspect of this work is described through results of the administration of the Stanford Achievement Tests…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Age Differences, Deafness
Potter, Thomas C. – 1968
An overall look is taken at the cloze research method as a new tool for measuring readability. The construction of a cloze readability test is described as well as several studies made on the reliability and validity of such tests. Included also are some methodological considerations to be kept in mind when constructing a cloze test. Data is…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Evaluation Methods, Language Research, Measurement Techniques
