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Pryzwansky, Walter B. – Psychology in the Schools, 1977
This article investigates teacher use of the Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration (VMI) as a screening instrument with groups of young school-age children. Findings argue for some refinement in the scoring system in order to improve consistency in scoring. (Author)
Descriptors: Group Testing, Individual Testing, Kindergarten Children, Learning Disabilities
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Lazarus, Philip J.; Novoa, Loriana. – Journal of Reading, 1987
Reviews the "Quick-Score Achievement Test" (Q-SAT), an individually administered measure of school achievement for use with students aged 7-18, which has two forms and yields scores for reading, writing, arithmetic, facts, and general achievement. (SKC)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Educational Testing, Individual Testing, Standardized Tests
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Caldwell, JoAnne – Journal of Reading, 1987
Concludes that the test has basic problems in construction, interpretation, validity, and reliability. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Individual Testing, Reading Instruction, Reading Tests
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Fischer, William B. – Unterrichtspraxis, 1984
Describes a first-year German course at Portland State University whose dominant feature is regular, frequent individual oral testing using the Interagency Language Roundtable model of the oral interview. Each student was individually tested every two weeks. Describes the testing procedure, giving sample test scripts and the transcript of an…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), German, Higher Education, Individual Testing
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Stasz, Clarice – Teaching Sociology, 1976
Criticisms of grading systems are discussed and a variation on the contract system is presented as an alternative. Students select types of assignments they wish to attempt as a "menu" and requirements are stratified according to student skill and experience level. (ND)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Assignments, Grading, Higher Education
Engel, Ned; Faustino, Peter – 1998
A broad scientific perspective that recognizes the child's social environment is needed in school psychology practice. The chances of influencing change expand when psychologists switch from an intrapsychic model to a social systems (group process) framework for testing referrals. Intrapsychic explanations create a mechanism for educators to avoid…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Problems, Educational Psychology, Elementary Secondary Education
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Newton, David F. – Journal of Environmental Health, 1973
Twenty true-false questions are provided in this environmental health quiz which is designed to test knowledge about flies and mosquitoes as vectors of communicable diseases. (JR)
Descriptors: Diseases, Entomology, Environmental Education, Environmental Influences
Harms, Ruth – Illinois Teacher of Home Economics, 1973
The author presents four self-assessment instruments and comments on the interpretation of their results. The instruments were administered to eighth and ninth graders and consisted of a self-awareness inventory, a career planning exercise in consciousness raising, an employability rating chart, and a women and work inventory. (AG)
Descriptors: Career Planning, Employed Women, Employment Potential, Employment Qualifications
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Ysseldyke, James E.; And Others – Psychology in the Schools, 1973
A multitrait-multimethod matrix was used to ascertain the convergent and discriminant validity of the subtests of the Peabody Individual Achievement Test. Correlations among scores earned by educable mentally retarded children on PIAT and WRAT subtests were similar to those reported for retarded adolescents by Sitlington (1970). (Author)
Descriptors: Achievement, Achievement Tests, Educational Research, Exceptional Child Research
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Bunda, Mary Anne – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1973
Procedures to be applicable in situations in which large numbers of individuals are tested or in situations where multiple measures are taken. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Data Collection, Group Norms, Individual Testing, Item Sampling
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Ehri, Linnea C.; Wilce, Lee S. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1983
This study extended the exploration of the development of word identification speed to younger skilled and less skilled readers. It focused on the attainment of unitized speeds to determine when the final phase in reading development (the speed of processing) is reached for familiar words during the early years. (Author/PN)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Individual Testing, Reaction Time
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Bowman, Ruth A.; Dunn, John M. – Exceptional Children, 1982
The study involving 30 educable mentally retarded children (8 to 12 years old) was designed to analyze the effect of the presence of others on three psychomotor measures from the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation Special Fitness Test. (SB)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Group Testing, Individual Testing, Mild Mental Retardation
Ebben, Lothar; Schroeder, Horst – Englisch, 1975
Though speaking ability receives priority in FL teaching, grades are given with little attention to it. Tests in current use are examined; a new one is proposed. The individual test is preferred to group tests. Various aspects of the individual oral test are discussed. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Individual Testing, Language Instruction, Language Tests
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Bicanich, Eleanor; Slivinski, Thomas; Kapes, Jerome T.; Hardwicke, Susan B. – T.H.E. Journal, 1997
Reports on a statewide pilot project which compared testing using paper-and-pencil and Internet-delivered test items. Participants were students from 14 Pennsylvania vocational-technical institutions. Describes the structured use, what teachers should know and insight from the project. Demonstrates that the Internet offers a viable cost-effective…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Individual Testing, Internet, Nontraditional Education
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Konold, Timothy R.; Maller, Susan J.; Glutting, Joseph J. – Journal of School Psychology, 1998
Two nested structural models are developed to determine whether test-session behaviors affect the manner in which intelligence is measured or influence the constructs being measured. Results indicate that test-session behaviors play a larger role influencing the mechanisms of measurement than on the constructs of intelligence. (Author/EMK)
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Elementary Secondary Education, Individual Testing, Intelligence
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