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Download full textBotterbusch, Karl F. – 1976
Seven commercially available work evaluation systems are compared using a standardized outline: development, organization, work evaluation process, administration, scoring and norms, observation of clients, reporting utility, training in the system, technical considerations, reviewer's summary and comments, address, cost, and references. There are…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Occupational Tests, Psychological Testing
Botterbusch, Karl F. – 1977
Four commercially available work evaluation systems are compared using a standardized outline: development, organization, work evaluation process, administration, scoring and norms, observation of clients, reporting utility, training in the system, technical considerations, reviewer's summary and comments, address, cost, and references. There are…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Occupational Tests, Psychological Testing
Cahan, Emily – 1979
This list of audiovisual materials on educational testing and assessment has been compiled from a variety of sources; the primary source was the National Information Center for Educational Media's Index to 16mm Educational Films, 1977 edition. Although the items are annotated, no attempt was made to review or to endorse any of the materials…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Audiotape Recordings, Audiovisual Aids, Disabilities
GROSSMAN, GWENDOLYN BRYANT – 1967
THIS STUDY WAS INITIATED TO ANALYZE AND COMPARE THE CONTENT OF GOALS OF FIFTH- AND SIXTH-GRADE LANGUAGE ARTS PROGRAMS WITH THE LANGUAGE ARTS AREAS ASSESSED BY STANDARDIZED ACHIEVEMENT TESTS. BY USING A FRAMEWORK OF COMMUNICATION SKILLS RECOMMENDED BY SEVERAL AUTHORITIES IN THE LANGUAGE ARTS, SEVEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHERS CLASSIFIED AND JUDGED…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Communication Skills, Educational Objectives, English Instruction
STEVENS, JOHN C.; AND OTHERS
TO DETERMINE WHETHER STUDENTS WHO PERCEIVE THEIR TEACHERS DIFFERENTLY ALSO DIFFER IN CREATIVITY, A SAMPLE OF 197 STUDENTS (82 MALES AND 115 FEMALES) WAS RANDOMLY SELECTED FROM ONE HIGH SCHOOL. EACH STUDENT WAS GIVEN THREE TESTS OF COGNITIVE FACTORS--THE UTILITY TEST (LISTING DIFFERENT USES FOR A BRICK AND A WOODEN PENCIL), THE APPARATUS TEST…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Bibliographies, Creativity, Factor Analysis
Deno, Stanley L.; And Others – 1980
Three concurrent validity studies were conducted on the relationship between performances on formative measures of spelling and performances on standardized spelling achievement measures using learning disabled (LD) and non-LD elementary students. Results of correlational analysis for four formative measures and three standardized measures…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Exceptional Child Research
Echternacht, Gary – 1981
The uses and misuses of standardized test results used for program evaluation as seen by a staff member of an Elementary Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Title I Technical Assistance Center are described. In ESEA Title I, test scores are used to select students for the program. Although federal requirements do not require using standardized test…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Compensatory Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Evaluation
Wilson, Patricia – 1979
Research indicates that when taking a standardized test that is not timed, students who have been coached to revise answers profit more from their changes than do those who receive no instruction at all. Some study skill books written for high school and college students give misleading advice not to change answers while some newer editions are…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Instructional Materials, Objective Tests, Reading Teachers
Nimmer, Donald N. – 1980
The sampling of test items found within the Science portion of selected standardized achievement test batteries is examined. The lack of sensitivity of such items to the curriculum changes often attempted in Earth Science is demonstrated. The following five standardized achievement test batteries commonly administered to pupils in grades 7-9 were…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Curriculum Evaluation, Earth Science, Junior High Schools
PDF pending restorationEvans, Robert A.; Wozney, Barbara E. – 1977
A norm referenced model was used to evaluate the relative effectiveness of intervention efforts with 3,896 learning disabled elementary and secondary school children. Ss were tested on the Wide Range Achievement Test. Significant growth was observed in students from resource and self contained classrooms. Gains did not appear to vary with the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Intervention, Learning Disabilities
Childs, Roy – 1976
The norm-referenced score scale used by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) is described. The usefulness of standardized scores is explained by a simple numerical example, and the formulas and computations are shown for calculating a mean, a standard deviation, and a deviation or z score. The need for a representative sample is…
Descriptors: Computation, Foreign Countries, Guides, Mathematical Formulas
Herman, David H. – 1979
The author reviews research on the use of standardized tests to identify bilingual handicapped children. Issues supporting and criticizing standardized measurement are considered, and the author concludes that no test approaching a reasonable level of fairness across cultural groups exists. Research on the psycholinguistic aspects of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Handicapped Children, Identification
McPherson, Elisabeth – 1977
Asserting that today's students are no less literate than were students of the past, this paper deplores the "manufactured" literacy crisis and the resultant rush to competency testing. The paper stresses that the current crisis is less one of literacy than a crisis about who is going to control what is taught and which students get into, and are…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education
Tobin, M. J. – Occasional Papers, 1978
Designed for educational psychologists, the paper discusses the range of tests used for assessing visually handicapped children. Specific tests used in Britain for preschool children (including the Williams Intelligence Test for Children with Defective Vision and the Social Maturity Scale for Blind Pre-school Children) and for school aged children…
Descriptors: Blindness, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Guidelines
Beck, Michael D.; Stetz, Frank P. – 1979
A national sample of 3,300 elementary and secondary school teachers, who had recently administered the Metropolitan Achievement Tests in their classrooms, responded to a questionnaire concerning various standardized achievement test issues. Teachers gave their opinion on: the amount of such testing in their schools; personal use of test results;…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Educational Policy, Educational Testing, Elementary Secondary Education
