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Caplin, Morris D.
The student teaching experience at Queens College is a cooperative venture between university supervisors, cooperating teachers, administrators, and student teachers. In an effort to evaluate and improve this performance based program, the education department surveyed cooperating teachers. Survey results indicate that the teachers were interested…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Competency Based Teacher Education, Cooperating Teachers, Faculty Workload
Peer reviewedOkano, Kaori – Sociology of Education, 1995
Reports on a study of the impact of formalized school-based job-referral procedures among 94 students in vocationally oriented Japanese high schools. Finds that the process achieves a meritocratic allocation of jobs and a smooth entry into the workforce for most students. (CFR)
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Guidance, Decision Making, Entry Workers
Download full textSticht, Thomas G.; And Others – 1982
A project was conducted to (1) produce normative data for the Literacy Assessment Battery (LAB) and (2) evaluate the LAB as a potential supplement to the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) for use as a selection and classification instrument for the military services. The distribution of auding and reading skills in the population…
Descriptors: Attrition (Research Studies), Listening Comprehension Tests, Listening Skills, Literacy
Burtch, Lloyd D.; And Others – 1982
An objective procedure was developed and tested to determine the relative difficulty of Air Force jobs. Also investigated were (1) the measurement of task difficulty to allow comparability across specialties, (2) the quantitative appraisal of job demands based on component tasks being performed, and (3) the comparability of job difficulty to job…
Descriptors: Aptitude, Aptitude Tests, Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Difficulty Level
Brown, Lou; And Others – 1976
Presented is part of a collection of reports related to the teaching of severely handicapped students in the Madison, Wisconsin, Metropolitan School Districts. Services for secondary age students are described in seven reports with the following titles and authors. "The Criterion of Ultimate Functioning and Public School Services for Severely…
Descriptors: Conceptual Schemes, Daily Living Skills, Delivery Systems, Exceptional Child Research
Peer reviewedHuebner, E. Scott – Research in Rural Education, 1985
Surveys 383 rural/urban/suburban school psychologists to evaluate influence of child's background, school setting, and psychologist's work setting on educational expectations for hypothetical case study child. Finds expectations not influenced by student's background or school setting. However, rural psychologists have higher academic/vocational…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bias, Educational Assessment, Elementary Education
Prestwood, J. Stephen; And Others – 1985
In order to take advantage of advances in the field of mental measurement, the Armed Forces and the Department of Defense have supported the development of a computerized adaptive version of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) for use in military personnel selection and classification. This report describes the development and…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Armed Forces, Computer Assisted Testing, Data Collection
Mislevy, Robert J.; Bock, R. Darrell – 1984
The Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB), a battery of 10 vocational tests, was administered to a national probability sample of nearly 12,000 young people, 15 to 23 years of age. Score distributions from the study were needed by the Armed Services to set performance levels for accepting and assigning recruits. Three psychometric…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Aptitude Tests, Military Personnel, Military Training
Heath, W. D., III; And Others – 1975
A study was done to determine the relationships between the revised Occupation Analysis Inventory (OAI) work-dimension scores and job ability-requirement estimates and the ability test scores of job incumbents and graduate trainees in related vocational/technical education programs. (The OAI is an instrument containing 622 work elements which are…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Aptitude, Employees, Employment
Jacobowitz, Tina – 1980
Science career preferences of junior high students, while not stable predictors of ultimate career choice, do serve to direct and maintain individuals along the paths to careers in science. In this study, factors relevant to science career preferences of black eighth grade students were investigated. This issue is of particular import to blacks…
Descriptors: Black Students, Career Choice, Career Development, Females
PDF pending restorationFischl, M. A.; And Others – 1979
The purpose of this research was to develop composites of subtests of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) such that each composite score would be reliable and the various composite scores would be factorially independent of each other. Factor analysis was used to cluster the tests into composites based on the underlying…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Aptitude Tests, Career Counseling, Clerical Occupations
Holland, John L.; Gottfredson, Gary D. – 1975
The paper uses John L. Holland's theory of careers to explain certain common career phenomena and concepts. An understanding of careers requires useful answers for four fundamental questions relating to vocational choice, vocational stability and instability, and vocational congruence. The theory of careers attempts to answer these fundamental…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Career Change, Career Choice, Career Counseling
Kapes, Jerome T.; Martinez, Linda – 1998
This document describes 32 recently developed career assessment instruments that have been deemed useful for school-to-work programs. The following instruments are among those profiled: Ability Explorer; Adult Measure of Essential Skills; Aptitude Interest Inventory; Ashland Interest Assessment; Barriers to Employment Success Inventory; Basic…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Aptitude Tests, Attitude Measures
Prestwood, J. Stephen; And Others – 1985
Six new forms of Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) were developed. These new forms were equated to a standard reference test, ASVAB 8a, using normative data based on a 1980 weighted probability sample of American youth, ages 18-23. Equating allows the services to report the distributions of examinee ability on a common metric or…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Aptitude Tests, Armed Forces, Data Collection
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
