Designed to measure recall of specific information, ability to grasp the thought of a passage as a whole, and ability to apply various contextual clues while listening to a passage of aural communication, each of the alternate forms of the cloze listening test consists of an audio tape recording of approximately twenty minutes duration and a…

Designed to test the degree of accuracy, fluency, and intelligibility of the subjects in a manner which will produce information similar to that which could be obtained by an interview technique, the test is based on the idea of fictitious dialogue. The test items were selected in order to leave little scope for variations in the answers so as to…

The "history of education" should no longer be considered an independent field for research and teaching. Many important questions in the history of ideas have been and continue to be numberically based, and require quantitative analysis to be answered. Revisionism in history has often involved the use of a quantitative methodology. (Author/JM)

This annotated bibliography focuses on, but is not limited to, reference sources on education found in the library at St. Bonaventure University, New York. The ERIC database leads the list of leading education reference sources. Also mentioned are the "Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors" and the Academic Index (InfoTrak) computer system.…

In order for researchers to develop principles for successful adult education, they must use both quantitative and qualitative research methods. The first step in developing principles for adult education is to describe education and practices through descriptive research that objectively quantifies and classifies aspects of practice. Through an…

This document describes a Q-sort package that is seen to provide effective, easily-scored self-concept assessment which is role-specific and does not require student norms. The package is designed to provide data about student perceptions of behavior for use by researchers, mathematics supervisors, program developers, or teachers. It is noted that…

Comparison is made between the techniques of research used in the physical sciences and those used in educational research, and the relative weakness of the reproducibility of educational research findings is noted. It is pointed out that while monitoring and feedback are essential in any research endeavor, they present difficulty in educational…

The purposes of this study were to analyze two variables in the communication situation which may affect the influence of polls: the "ideology" of the individual respondent, consisting of three dimensions, conservative, liberal, and moderate; and the "attitude" of the individual as to information contained in the poll, consisting of two…

Designed to measure the effect of context on the ability of students to interpret structurally ambiguous sentences, this test consists of 20 items, ten of which are based on the surface structure ambiguities of the Sentence Interpretation Test (SIT). The criteria established for the construction of the Contextual Ambiguity Test (CAT) included item…

Designed to assess the ability to produce and recognize selected regular and irregular noun plural forms, researchers may infer from the results the extent to which children have internalized the rules governing pluralization patterns. Noun pluralization in English is divided into rules for "regular" nouns and learned forms for…

Designed to measure the changes in attitudes toward reading for pleasure of student groups in grades one to three, this instrument consists of 32 items stated in story form. Each item appears on a single page of the student's booklet, along with three faces representing happy, indifferent, and unhappy reactions. The administrator reads the item to…

Designed to assess the extent of adolescents' literary awareness of detail and of characterization, and their sense of the purpose and continuity in written responses to story selections, the Literary Appreciation of Adolescents measure was constructed. Three scales measure those three factors, with each scale being scored on a five-point basis…

Designed to analyze and describe the transformational operations in sentences in written compositions, this test contains a list of 27 possible transformations, all variations of four basic transformational operations: addition, deletion, reordering, and combining. The developer reports an interrater reliability coefficient of .94. [This document…

Designed to be used as a measure of English language readiness to assist the classroom teacher in grouping native Spanish-speaking pupils for English language instruction, the index may also be used to assess pupil achievement in learning English as a foreign language. Based on a contrastive analysis of English and Spanish grammar and phonology,…

Designed to discriminate Negro dialect speech from standard English, the Rystrom Dialect Test seeks to overcome three problems encountered in research about Negro speech; determining what stable elements distinguish Negro dialect from standard English, constructing a test easily administered to a young child and capable of measuring the…