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Massachusetts Assessment of Basic Skills 1979-80. Summary Report. Listening, Speaking.
Massachusetts State Dept. of Education, Boston. Bureau of Research and Assessment. – 1980
Statewide information about the performance of Massachusetts' grade 12 students in listening and speaking is presented for the 1979-80 school year. A total of 2,207 students were tested by listening to material on a tape recording and then answering multiple-choice questions about what they heard. The performance of students in listening is…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Grade 12, High Schools, Listening Skills
Assessing Speaking Skills: Issues of Feasibility, Reliability. Validity and Bias.
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Mead, Nancy A. – 1980
Focusing on the problems of assessing the speaking skills of secondary school students, this paper provides one example of how those problems were addressed in the Massachusetts speaking assessment. The paper identifies four requirements for measures of speaking skills: (1) feasibility, (2) reliability, (3) validity, and (4) freedom from bias. The…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Measurement Techniques
Massachusetts Assessment of Basic Skills 1979-80. Technical Report. Listening, Speaking.
Massachusetts State Dept. of Education, Boston. Bureau of Research and Assessment. – 1980
This report documents the Massachusetts Statewide Assessment of Basic Skills in speaking and listening that was conducted during the 1979-80 school year. The four chapters of the report provide information about (1) the survey design and methodology, (2) the performance of twelfth grade students in listening, (3) the results of two measures of…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Research, Evaluation Methods, Grade 12