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Download full textVeal, Ramon; Hulme, Gale – 1981
The basic communication skills of prospective teachers at the University of Georgia were assessed with knowledge and performance instruments. The knowledge instrument was a criterion referenced test in communicative arts (logical reasoning, library research, composition, language, communications media and careers, literature, reading, and oral…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Higher Education, Measurement Techniques, Measures (Individuals)
Taylor, Nancy E.; Blum, Irene H. – 1981
A battery of four reading readiness assessment tasks was administered to 267 first grade students to determine if the tasks predicted reading achievement as well as the Metropolitan Readiness Test (MRT). The four tasks, which were the best predictors in a previous study of seven readiness tasks, were the aural word boundaries task, the…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Grade 1, Predictive Measurement, Predictive Validity
McAdams, Katherine C. – 1981
A study examined the potential effects on journalism management of the recent influx of women into journalism schools. In addition, the study sought to predict the career progress of women currently in journalism schools to the editorial ranks by measuring feminine traits (the limited aspirations of women and feminine communication patterns) that…
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Students, Communication Skills, Females
Geis, Lynna; Carney, Myrna L. – 1978
To investigate relationships among reading scores, college academic performance, degree expectations, self-assessed skills, and retention, data from "The Nelson-Denny Reading Test" and background information from "The New Student Survey" were correlated with the freshman year academic performance and enrollment status at the beginning of the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Grade Prediction, Higher Education
Davis, William J. – 1978
The purpose of this document is to report a needs assessment questionnaire package based on the position that needs assessment surveys should gather the preferences of prospective participants regarding all modifiable aspects of an inservice program. The package consists of two instruments that may be administered either separately or in…
Descriptors: Educational Experience, Guidelines, Inservice Education, Instructional Design
Kameoka, Velma; Tanaka-Matsumi, Junko – 1978
The S-R Inventory of Anxiousness was developed as an experimental design to demonstrate the relative contributions of persons, situations, modes of response, and their interactions to individual differences in anxiety. College students in three studies were asked to rate a total of 154 items, involving 14 modes of response (physiological or overt…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Analysis of Variance, Anxiety, Arousal Patterns
Williamson, Stephen A.; Schaalman, Mary Lou – 1980
Focusing on assessment centers, this chapter is one of seven in a report that examines the assessment of occupational competence. Assessment centers are presented first in a historical context (their origins in personality theory), through which their evolution is traced and examined. What follows is a description of current assessment center…
Descriptors: Adults, Competence, Employment Qualifications, Job Performance
FELDMANN, SHIRLEY; WEINER, MAY – 1963
A READING PROGNOSIS TEST TO MEASURE FUTURE ABILITY, BASED ON PRESENT SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE, OF CHILDREN FROM DIFFERENT SOCIOECONOMIC LEVELS WAS CONDUCTED. IT SOUGHT TO AVOID TWO MAJOR SHORTCOMINGS OF STANDARDIZED READING READINESS TESTS (1) THAT CHILDREN OF LOW SOCIOECONOMIC LEVEL WERE INCLUDED IN THE NORMS AND THEREFORE SCORES OF THESE CHILDREN…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Lower Class Students, Measurement Instruments, Predictive Measurement
DE CHARMS, RICHARD; JORDAN, THOMAS E. – 1959
THE CONCEPTUAL AND EMPIRICAL STATUS OF ACHIEVEMENT MOTIVATION WAS EVALUATED WITH RESPECT TO ESTABLISHING AN OBJECTIVE, QUANTIFIED, PREDICTIVE MEASURE OF SCHOOL PERFORMANCE FOR MENTALLY RETARDED CHILDREN. COMPARATIVE ANALYSES WERE MADE AMONG 3 SUBJECT SAMPLES--(1) A CONTROL GROUP OF 60 NORMAL CHILDREN, (2) AN EXPERIMENTAL GROUP OF 42 MENTAL…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Handicapped Children
BECK, ROBERT B.; AND OTHERS – 1967
THE PURPOSE OF THE PROJECT WAS TO HELP PUBLIC ASSISTANCE RECIPIENTS EARN THEIR OWN LIVING THROUGH A JOINT EFFORT BY VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION AND PUBLIC WELFARE SERVICES. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES INCLUDED (1) ESTABLISH METHODS OF IDENTIFYING POTENTIAL CANDIDATES, (2) DEVELOP AN INTERAGENCY OPERATING PATTERN, AND (3) DEVELOP AN ADEQUATE…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Coordination, Demonstration Programs, Diagnostic Tests
MITZEL, HAROLD E. – 1967
IN DISCUSSING A RELIABLE AND VALID PRESERVICE PREDICTOR OF TEACHING EFFECTIVENESS, IT IS NOTED THAT MOST TEACHER SELECTION PROCEDURES DEPEND SOLELY ON PAPER AND PENCIL MEASURES OF VERBAL AND SYMBOL MANIPULATION ABILITY. THEREFORE, A NEW MULTIVARIABLE EVALUATION PROCEDURE IS OFFERED. IT CONSISTS OF (1) DEVELOPING EMPIRICAL DESCRIPTIONS OF CLASSROOM…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Lesson Observation Criteria, Predictive Measurement, Predictive Validity
SAFFORD, PHILIP L. – 1967
THE RELATIVE EFFECTIVENESS OF TASK SCORES VERSUS IQ AS PREDICTORS OF ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT WAS INVESTIGATED, AND THE CORRELATIONS BETWEEN TASK SCORES AND IQ RE-EXAMINED. SUBJECTS WERE 99 UPPER-MIDDLE CLASS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN WITH A MEAN STANFORD-BINET IQ OF 126 (SD EQUALS 19). THE INSTRUMENTS USED WERE DUNN'S OBJECT SORTING TASK (OST),…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Tests, Creativity, Elementary Education
BALL, RACHELL S.; STOTT, LELAND H. – 1963
AN INVESTIGATION AND EVALUATION OF TOTAL INFANT AND PRESCHOOL MENTAL TESTING SITUATIONS AND SOME CONCLUSIONS AS TO THE CURRENT NEEDS IN THIS AREA ARE PRESENTED. THESE APPROACHES ARE MADE TO THE PROBLEM. FIRST, THE THEORETICAL THINKING ON THE NATURE OF INTELLIGENCE AND HOW IT DEVELOPS IN CHILDREN IS TRACED. THERE HAS BEEN DISAGREEMENT OVER THE…
Descriptors: Child Development, Factor Analysis, Intellectual Development, Intelligence Tests
Crooks, Terence J. – 1980
Six widely used college admissions variables and four course-specific measures (tests of entering mathematical skills and physics knowledge, and indexes of previous study of mathematics and physics) were correlated with final marks for 495 students in an introductory college physics course. The college admissions variables included scores on…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Class Rank, College Admission, College Entrance Examinations
Slitor, Richard E. – 1980
A review and analysis of the economic outlook for the early 1980s, this paper emphasizes the uncertainties that characterize current predictions. It begins with the highlights of the consensus forecast that predicts a mild to moderate recession tapering off after midyear 1980, with a sluggish recovery extending through 1981 and probably 1982. The…
Descriptors: Credit (Finance), Economic Climate, Economics, Federal Aid
