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Kuwait Univ., Safat. Language Center. – 1978
These nine articles discuss and offer suggestions for various aspects of language teaching. In "Learning Foreign-Language Phonology: You Can't Hear It If You Can't Say It," Victor W. Mason reviews the literature supporting the proposition that accuracy of articulation is required for aural discrimination. In "Teaching Scanning," James Herbolich…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Course Evaluation, Curriculum Development, English for Special Purposes
Greene, Jennifer E. – 1978
This paper reports an investigation of inferencing in Form Five of the Reading Comprehension component of the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills. The first step in the investigation consisted of an analysis of the language of the test to determine how the inferencing strategies employed might serve to mask answers. This preliminary analysis suggested that…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Error Analysis (Language)
Harris, Lynn J. – 1979
A pilot study was initiated to achieve reliability and especially validity indexes for measuring research and development impact. Two opposing questionnaires were administered to each of three target groups: 164 high school vocational education students, 120 secondary school vocational education teachers, and 56 vocational education…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Item Analysis, Program Development, Questionnaires
Australian Council for Educational Research, Hawthorn. – 1978
This handbook is designed to assist teachers in using the Science Item Bank to construct diagnostic tests and end-of-course achievement tests. The item bank consists of over 2,800 multiple-choice items, and teachers are encouraged to supplement this source of test items with other forms of test questions. Key answers to these questions are arrived…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Biological Sciences, Foreign Countries, Item Analysis
Yen, Wendy M. – 1979
The extent, causes, and importance of context effects on item parameters for one- and three-parameter latent-trait models were examined. Items were taken from the California Achievement Tests Reading Comprehension and Mathematics Concepts and Applications subtests. The reading items were administered to 1,678 fourth-grade students, and the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Context Clues, Educational Testing, Elementary School Mathematics
Hertzog, James F., Comp.; Seiverling, Richard F., Comp. – 1979
This manual is designed to accompany reports prepared by the Pennsylvania Department of Education for the 505 school districts in that state, summarizing results of the Educational Quality Assessment. The normative sample is described as being stratified on two dimensions: district enrollment and wealth. Administrative procedures are summarized.…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Cognitive Objectives, Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Assessment
Crowder, Christopher R. – 1979
Two chi square techniques were applied to identify culturally biased items on the Reading Vocabulary and Reading Comprehension sections of the California Achievement Tests. Subjects were 1,035 Mexican Americans and 2,474 Anglo Americans in grade 7. Eight items appeared biased against Mexican Americans, but not Anglo Americans; seven occurred in…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Cultural Differences, Culture Fair Tests, Failure
THORNDIKE, ROBERT L. – 1967
COMPLETE EVALUATION DATA WERE GATHERED ON 162 CHILDREN IN 23 CLASSES IN NINE HEAD START CENTERS. FIVE AREAS EXPLORED WERE--(1) ITEM ANALYSIS OF EVALUATION TESTS--STANFORD-BINET AND THE CALDWELL-SOULE PRESCHOOL INVENTORY, (2) COMPARISON OF AGE-MATCHED GROUPS--43 MATCHED PAIRS WITHIN THE HEAD START POPULATION (THERE WERE NO SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Annual Reports, Behavior Change, Control Groups
Miles, David T. – 1968
The purpose of this first phase of a continuing research program was the development of a test of creative problem solving in general design. A design class of 186 members was divided into an experimental and control group; a non-design control group (an educational psychology class) of 45 was also tested. Multivariate interpretation of creative…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Tests, Creative Thinking, Creativity
Research Triangle Inst., Durham, NC. Center for Educational Research and Evaluation. – 1974
This document supports the survey questionnaire to be administered to a sample of over 22,000 young adults in the second follow-up of the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972. Data collection activities were scheduled to start in October 1974 and be completed by March 1975. The field test of the survey questionnaire,…
Descriptors: Biographical Inventories, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Data Processing
Wall, Janet – 1978
In September 1977 a reading and language arts test, based upon 40 objectives slated for student accomplishment by the end of grade four, was administered to all Delaware fourth graders. This test, the Objective-Referenced Measure in Communications, was intended to provide entry level diagnostic information to classroom teachers and to inform…
Descriptors: Accountability, Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives
Kentucky State Dept. of Education, Frankfort. Div. of Evaluation. – 1974
The Kentucky Educational Assessment Program is an ongoing effort to gather information regarding progress toward attainment of the educational goals for Kentucky citizens. Major emphasis is on the determination of the actual level of pupil performance in relation to desired performance. In the eleventh grade, relevant information was gathered in…
Descriptors: Accountability, Basic Skills, Citizenship, Data Analysis
Guilliams, Clark I. – 1975
Chicano and Amerindian vocabulary scale responses from the Stanford-Binet (LM) and Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children were item-analyzed for 1,009 subjects. The response patterns differed both by ethnic group and test, as well as by age. The most common, and recurring, pattern found was "level-of-difficulty" gradient…
Descriptors: American Indians, Correlation, Disadvantaged, Elementary Education
Durost, Walter N.; Hodges, Richard B., Jr. – 1974
Data available from the Fall and Spring administration of the Stanford Achievement Test: Intermediate I: Form X and the Otis-Lennon Mental Ability Test for all Title I pupils in the State of New Hampshire plus a random sample for the entire state, made possible the item-by-item comparison of Fall and Spring performance on the same groups of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education
Swezey, Robert W.; Pearlstein, Richard B. – 1975
This manual outlines the rationale for using the Criterion Referenced Test (CRT) approach and suggests specific guidelines for test developers to use in constructing test items. Methods for assessing the adequacy of a CRT are also provided. (Author/RC)
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Check Lists, Comparative Analysis, Criterion Referenced Tests