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Download full textUpton, Jan; Supovitz, John – 1996
Linking teacher treatment to student impact is not as straightforward as it may seem initially. The difficulties in measuring the impact on students are illustrated in this discussion of the Ohio Statewide Systemic Initiative (SSI). Since the inception of the SSI, the external evaluators had planned to use data from the state's proficiency tests…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Evaluation Methods, Grade 9, High Schools
Dangler, Sue A. – 1994
A survey was completed by 30 administrators in Northwest Ohio who were in charge of the administration and remediation for the Ohio Ninth Grade Proficiency Tests for their respective schools. On a scale of 0 to 5 (0 signifying not at all and 5 signifying great extent), the respondents were asked to rate 20 different intervention and remediation…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Administrators, Grade 9, High School Students
Birkmire, Karen J. – 1993
Teacher attitudes toward the high school proficiency test were identified through a 15-question survey distributed to 39 secondary school teachers representing various demographic school populations. The subjects were selected from five graduate education classes and a small city high school. The median number of years of teaching experience was…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Educational Attitudes, Grade 9
Lanese, James F. – 1992
To answer several questions about the Ohio statewide high school proficiency testing program, correlations of student performance on the ninth-grade proficiency test with other measures of reading and mathematics were studied for approximately 4,600 students in the Cleveland (Ohio) City School District. The performance of students from higher…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Correlation, Criterion Referenced Tests, Grade 9
Essex, Martin W. – 1971
The document is a collection of materials related to the development of a State career education continuum for Ohio, specifically the development of resources for offering vicarious, simulated, or hands-on career exploration experiences to ninth and tenth graders within a unified theoretical framework. Introduced by general discussions of…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Exploration, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Guides
Ohio State Legislative Office of Education Oversight, Columbus. – 1993
This report, mandated by Ohio's 119th General Assembly, examines the fairness and appropriateness of the state's ninth-grade proficiency test. Under the assumption that it is indeed fair and appropriate to have a single, statewide graduation standard for all students, the study focuses on the issue of whether the test, as developed and…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Citizenship Education, Focus Groups, Grade 9
