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PDF pending restorationRaju, Nambury S.; And Others – 1992
In March 1992 the Arizona State Department of Education and educators across the state conducted a pilot study of 67 performance assessments developed for the Arizona Student Assessment Program (ASAP). This report describes various aspects of the reliability and validity of the 67 assessments (primarily constructed response) developed by The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 12
Download full textJohnson, Eugene G.; And Others – 1990
Details of the design and data analysis associated with the 1988 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) are presented. The 1988 NAEP surveyed American students' knowledge of reading, writing, civics, U.S. history, and geography. Small-scale studies were conducted for mathematics and science. Populations included public school students…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Data Analysis, Databases, Educational Assessment
Generalization and Expansion of the Ball Aptitude Battery to High School Freshmen. Technical Report.
Rengel, Elizabeth K.; And Others – 1984
The purposes of this study were to: (1) examine the psychometric properties of the Ball Aptitude Battery (BAB) on a high school freshman sample; (2) develop BAB norms for high school freshmen; (3) develop and evaluate four memory tests and a vocabulary test appropriate for freshmen; (4) examine level and structure differences for the BAB tests…
Descriptors: Ability, Age Differences, Aptitude Tests, Factor Structure
Rock, Donald A.; And Others – 1995
This report documents the development and validation of the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88) cognitive test battery. The cognitive test battery assesses growth between grades 8 and 12 in the content areas of reading comprehension, mathematics, science, and history/citizenship/geography. The battery was part of the NELS:88…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Bayesian Statistics, Citizenship Education
San Diego City Schools, CA. Planning, Research and Evaluation Div. – 1984
This report provides a detailed summary of California Assessment Program (CAP) test results for the San Diego, California, City School District. The CAP achievement tests in reading, mathematics, written language, (written expression and spelling for twelfth graders) were administered in grades 3, 6, 8, and 12. A number of tables and appendices…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Educational Assessment
Tourangeau, Roger; And Others – 1983
This report documents the major technical aspects of the sample selection and implementation of the 1982 High School and Beyond First Follow Up, the first in a series of planned resurveys of the students and schools in the 1980 High School and Beyond Base Year Survey. The First Follow-Up included subsamples of nearly 30,000 sophomore cohort and…
Descriptors: Academic Records, Error of Measurement, Federal Programs, Followup Studies
Education Commission of the States, Denver, CO. National Assessment of Educational Progress. – 1978
This test manual presents the full results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) survey of 1,300 17-year-old students on performance in five major basic life skills: (1) personal finance and consumer protection; (2) health maintenance; (3) interpersonal competence; (4) family responsibility; and (5) career development. In…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Development, Consumer Protection, Daily Living Skills
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. – 1993
Province-wide results from the Diploma Examinations Program of the Alberta (Canada) schools are presented for the three examinations of the entire 1991-92 school year (January, June, and August). The annual report also provides summaries of results by gender, for population subgroups, and for achievement-over-time studies. School marks,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Students, Biology, Chemistry
National Opinion Research Center, Chicago, IL. – 1980
High School and Beyond is a national longitudinal study of the cohorts of 1980 seniors and sophomores in the United States, intended to provide information on these students through early adulthood. It is part of a program of national longitudinal studies of American youth initiated in 1972. This base year student file includes information on…
Descriptors: Databases, Educational Experience, Extracurricular Activities, Grade 10
National Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC. – 1980
High School and Beyond is a national longitudinal study of the cohorts of 1980 seniors and sophomores in the United States, intended to provide information on these students through early adulthood. This base year student file, a machine-readable data file (MDRF), is the first information available from the study. It includes information on 58,270…
Descriptors: Databases, Educational Experience, Extracurricular Activities, Grade 10
Henderson, Louise; Levinsohn, Jay – 1981
This documentation is intended to assist users of the school file which was prepared from information collected for the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 (NLS-72). The school file is a companion to the NLS-72 student-based data file and consists of 1,318 records, one from each high school from which NLS-72 students are…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Databases, Educational Environment, Educational Facilities
PDF pending restorationEagle, Eva; Schmitt, Carl – 1990
This Department of Education (ED) Tabulation presents a wide range of data on patterns of stopping out and dropping out from postsecondary education (PE) that 1972, 1980, and 1982 high school graduates experienced. The data compare how these respective cohorts differ by examining the percentage who attend continuously; they also describe patterns…
Descriptors: Degrees (Academic), Dropout Rate, Dropouts, Educational Attainment
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Student Evaluation and Data Processing Branch. – 1985
Results of the Alberta, Canada Grade 12 Diploma Examinations Program are presented for the January 1985 test administration. All twelfth grade students are required to pass at least one of these tests in order to receive a high school diploma. Some students also receive course credit by passing the appropriate examination. Examinations are…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Biology, Chemistry, English
Education Commission of the States, Denver, CO. National Assessment of Educational Progress. – 1979
The 168 items selected for administration to 7,905 17-year olds in 1976-77, were developed from existing National Assessment items and from existing sets of life/coping skills. Skills designated as basic included: career development; citizenship; community resource utilization; consumer protection; family management; health maintenance; and…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Daily Living Skills, Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives
Johnson, Lloyd D.; O'Malley, Patrick M.; Bachman, Jerald G.; Schulenberg, John E. – National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), 2006
Results from the Monitoring the Future's 2005 nationwide survey of 8th, 10th, and 12th grade students are given in this report. Recent trends in the use of licit and illicit drugs are emphasized, as well as trends in the levels of perceived risk and personal disapproval associated with each drug. This study has shown these beliefs and attitudes to…
Descriptors: Grade 12, Drug Use, Trend Analysis, Grade 8
