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Download full textEducational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. – 1960
This conference focused on two themes: research in testing and the cooperative research program, and testing in the language arts. The morning session was concerned with the impact of the federal Cooperative Research Program on educational research. Papers were entitled: The Support of Measurement Projects by the Cooperative Research Program.…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Conference Reports, Developing Nations, Educational Problems
Sisk, Dorothy A. – Gifted Education International, 1988
This article discusses the validity of using conventional psychometric tests to assess the abilities of disadvantaged pupils, justifies the use of alternative assessment procedures, emphasizes the importance of changing teacher attitudes toward the disadvantaged gifted, and suggests ways to nurture and develop the talents of disadvantaged…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted Disadvantaged, Minority Groups
Educational Testing Service, Los Angeles, CA. – 1958
At the seventh Western Regional Conference on Testing Problems, the following speeches were given: (1) "A Guidance Person's Approach to Testing for the Discovery and Development of Human Talent" by Frances D. McGill; (2) "The Instructional Uses of Measurement in the Discovery and Development of Human Talent" by Roy P. Wahle; (3) "New Frontiers of…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academic Ability, Aptitude Tests, Conference Reports
