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An Analysis of the 1992 New Jersey Grade 8 Early Warning Test.
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Tambini, Robert F. – 1999
The quality and the effectiveness of the 1992 New Jersey Grade 8 Early Warning Test (NJEWT) are assessed. Standardized tests possess clear advantages for educators, especially in the case of administration and scoring, but there are clear disadvantages as well, including the possibility of bias. Four criteria are applied to the NJEWT: adequacy,…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Grade 8, Junior High School Students, Junior High Schools
Effects of Administrator Performance on Student Performance in the Trial State Assessment.
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McLaughlin, Donald H. – 1992
In 1990 the scope of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) was broadened by adding the Trial State Assessment (TSA), in which approximately 2,500 eighth graders in 100 schools in 40 states and U.S. territories participated in the mathematics assessment. A major step was training local test administrators to administer the TSA…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Administrators, Grade 8, Junior High School Students
Committee Meeting of Assembly Education Committee "To Receive Testimony from the Commissioner of Education, Mary Lee Fitzgerald, Department Staff, and Others Concerning the Department's Skills Testing Program, Including the Early Warning Test and High School Proficiency Test, Pursuant to Assembly Resolution No. 113."
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New Jersey State Office of Legislative Services, Trenton. Assembly Education Committee. – 1993
The Assembly Education Committee of the New Jersey Office of Legislative Services held a hearing pursuant to Assembly Resolution 113, a proposal directing the Committee to investigate the skills testing program developed and administered to New Jersey children by the State Department of Education. The Committee was interested in the eighth-grade…
Descriptors: Accountability, Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Cost Effectiveness
Using Tests as a Performance Incentive To Motivate Eighth-Graders To Study.
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Tuckman, Bruce W.; Trimble, Susan – 1997
Forty-one middle school students in two eighth-grade classes were taught half of their science chapters in the conventional manner with homework assignments, and half of their chapters by having short classroom quizzes on each unit. Quizzes were expected to stimulate incentive motivation as a mediator between a goal object, mastery, and the…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Comparative Analysis, Educational Strategies, Grade 8
State Proficiency Tests and Standardized Tests.
Robinson, Mary A.; Moore, Mary H. – 1992
The relationship between student scores on standardized achievement tests taken in the eighth grade and the Ohio Ninth Grade Proficiency Test (ONGPT) was studied to determine whether standardized achievement test cut-off scores can be used in place of the ONGPT. Students enrolled in the eighth grade in an urban school district in the spring of…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Citizenship Education, Comparative Testing, Cutting Scores
The Trial State Assessment: Prospects and Realities. The Third Report of the National Academy of Education Panel on the Evaluation of the NAEP Trial State Assessment: 1992 Trial State Assessment.
National Academy of Education, Stanford, CA. – 1993
The National Academy of Education Panel is providing the intellectual leadership and coordination for an independent evaluation of the 1990 and 1992 Trial State Assessments (TSA) of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). These instruments provide state-by-state comparisons of educational achievement, which is the first such use of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Educational Assessment, Elementary School Students