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Steele, Cam Monroe; Reinsch, N. L., Jr. – 1983
An instrument for measuring telephone apprehension was developed to facilitate research into hypothesized relationships between communication apprehension and telephone apprehension. A set of 92 Likert-type items was adapted from previous communication apprehension scales and administered to 81 undergraduate students in a speech communication…
Descriptors: Adults, Attitude Measures, Communication Apprehension, Communication Research
Burroway, Robert L. – 1984
Microcomputer versions of three commonly used cognitive style measurement instruments are described and demonstrated: the Leveling-Sharpening House Test (LSHT) (Santostefano, 1964); Lowenfeld's Successive Impressions Test I (SIT-I) (1945); and the Group Embedded Figures Test (GEFT) (Witkin, Oltman, Ruskin, and Karp, 1971). At present, many…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Graphics, Display Systems
Taylor, Marcia – 1983
The Perry scheme of intellectual and ethical development has become widely used in a range of academic disciplines and such areas as career training and faculty consultation. However, current measurement techniques for the scheme, whether interview format or paper and pencil measures, do not adequately address issues related to assessing cognitive…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement, College Students, Developmental Stages
Download full textChilds, Ruth Axman – 1989
Commercial achievement tests often provide limited instructional guidance and seldom provide feedback specific to any given classroom. The most instructionally relevant achievement tests are those developed by an individual teacher for use with a particular class. This digest describes the steps of test construction and presents suggestions for…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Behavioral Objectives, Classroom Techniques, Multiple Choice Tests
Dancer, L. Suzanne; Stanley, Lawrence R. – 1989
The structure of the revised Client Needs Assessment Instrument (CNAI) is examined. In 1978-79, the Texas Department of Human Resources (DHR) developed the CNAI to provide an index of applicants' and clients' capacity for self-care by measuring the respondents' levels of functioning in: (1) physical health; (2) daily living activities; (3) mental…
Descriptors: Adults, Client Characteristics (Human Services), Correlation, Daily Living Skills
Anderson, Paul S.; Schoner, James S. – 1987
The MDT multi-digit technique, a development in testing technology, is described; and its application to science classrooms is discussed. Some actual materials for use in a cell biology class are included. The primary characteristic of an MDT multi-digit test is a long list of possible responses, with each term marked with a three-digit number…
Descriptors: Answer Sheets, Biology, Computer Assisted Testing, Educational Technology
Guenther, Joseph W. – 1989
A study examined the effects of adjunct questions on learning. Subjects, 93 male and 78 female sixth-grade students from two junior high schools in small towns located in a largely agricultural region in the Midwest and whose mean grade equivalency on the reading sub-test of the Stanford Achievement Test was 10.2, were monitored by video cameras…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Criterion Referenced Tests, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades
Kubiak, Anna T.; Cowell, William R. – 1990
A procedure used to average several Mantel-Haenszel delta difference values for an item is described and evaluated. The differential item functioning (DIF) procedure used by the Educational Testing Service (ETS) is based on the Mantel-Haenszel statistical technique for studying matched groups. It is standard procedure at ETS to analyze test items…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Elementary Secondary Education, Equated Scores, Item Bias
Florida State Dept. of Education, Tallahassee. Student Assessment Section. – 1982
The Florida Statewide Assessment Program tests students' achievement of basic skills in reading, writing, and mathematics at grades 3, 5, 8, and 10 on the State Student Assessment Test-Part I (SSAT-I). In addition, high school students are tested on practical math and reading tasks on the State Student Assessment Test-Part II (SSAT-II). This…
Descriptors: Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Skills, Reading Skills
Canelos, James; And Others – 1985
The effects of encoding specificity were evaluated for learners: (1) in a typical classroom group learning environment, (2) receiving an audiovisual presentation on an academic subject, and (3) in a group testing environment. Encoding specificity involves the interaction between the encoding phase of memory or the learning context, the stored…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Cues, Encoding (Psychology), Higher Education
Pumfrey, Peter D. – 1985
The second edition of this British publication provides details of recent developments in the assessment of reading attainments and the analysis of reading processes. The book begins with a description of various types of reading tests and assessment techniques with consideration given to the purposes for which normative, criterion-referenced, and…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Informal Reading Inventories
Herman, Joan – 1984
Diagnostic testing can provide specific information about student skills as a decision-making aid to teachers in prescribing instruction, identifying needs for remediation, determining effective instructional materials and methods, and ultimately, improving student learning. Diagnostic testing, as viewed here, includes individual and group…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Skill Analysis, Student Evaluation
Tanner, David E. – 1981
Teacher questions have been the subject of a substantial amount of research and analysis in recent years. Debate has centered around the appropriate use of this instructional and evaluative tool. A study examined the impact on student achievement of manipulating abstractness-concreteness, independent of cognitive level, in achievement test items.…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Educational Strategies
Siskind, Theresa G.; And Others – 1984
The purposes of the present study were to ascertain whether or not two particular formatting characteristics influenced seventh grade student performance on math tests. One research question focused on the effects of decimal positioning in multiple choice options for computational items. In a second question, labeling format was compared with…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Decimal Fractions, Geometry, Grade 7
Reckase, Mark D.; And Others – 1989
The purpose of the paper is to determine whether test forms of the Mathematics Usage Test (AAP Math) of the American College Testing Program are parallel in a multidimensional sense. The AAP Math is an achievement test of mathematics concepts acquired by high school students by the end of their third year. To determine the dimensionality of the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Factor Analysis, High School Students, High Schools
