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Anderson, Carolyn S. – 1986
The Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills in reading, language, and mathematics was administered to 3,417 second through twelfth grade students plus 201 resource room special education students for a total of 3,618 students, 97% of the student population in the Crete-Monee (Illinois) School District, in April, 1986. The test results were compared:…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Educational Trends
Ferrara, Steven; And Others – 1988
A study was undertaken to describe assessment activities of four school districts in Maryland (Washington, Cecil, Montgomery, and Charles Counties) designed to parallel a state-mandated competency-testing program required for high school graduation and to report uses of scores and positive and negative impacts from assessment activities. The…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Computer Assisted Testing, Educational Assessment, Graduation Requirements
Reynolds, Arthur J.; Bezruczko, Nikolaus – 1988
The proliferation of minimum competency testing in recent years has not resulted in a critical analysis of the construct validity of such tests. The present study examined the dimensionality and construct validity of an urban life skills competency test (the 1987 eighth-grade Chicago Minimum Proficiency Skills Test (MPST) via linear analysis. The…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Construct Validity, Daily Living Skills, Elementary School Students
New Jersey State Dept. of Education, Trenton. – 1986
This Technical Report provides descriptions and summary data that assist measurement specialists in assessing the procedures used in developing New Jersey's High School Proficiency Test (HSPT), the technical qualities of the tests, and the statewide results obtained from its use. The data summarized in this report were collected during the various…
Descriptors: Equated Scores, Graduation Requirements, High Schools, Item Analysis
Peer reviewedPhillips, S. E.; Mehrens, William A. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1987
This study investigates whether a linear factor analytic method commonly used to evaluate violation of the item response theory (IRT) unidimensionality assumption is sensitive to measurable curricular differences within a school district and to examine the possibility of differential item performance for groups of students receiving different…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Education, Elementary School Curriculum, Factor Analysis
Download full textVirginia State Dept.of Education, Richmond. Div. of Assessment and Reporting. – 1999
Beginning in Spring 1998, Virginia students participated in the Standards of Learning (SOL) assessments designed to test student knowledge of the content and skills specified in the state's standards. This document contains questions that approximately 79,000 students in grade 8 were required to answer as part of the SOL assessments. These…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Achievement Tests, Computer Science, Grade 8
New Jersey State Dept. of Education, Trenton. – 1995
In 1988, the New Jersey Legislature passed legislation that moved the High School Proficiency Test (HSPT) from ninth to eleventh grade. This test of basic skills in reading, mathematics, and writing will be a graduation requirement for all students in New Jersey who enter high school on or after September 1, 1991. In October 1994 the test was…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Exit Examinations, Grade 11, Graduation Requirements
New Mexico State Dept. of Education, Santa Fe. Assessment and Evaluation Unit. – 1995
The State Department of Education is releasing the domain specifications of the New Mexico High School Competency Examination (NMHSCE) for educator use because the Spring 1996 administration of the test will be in a different form. The NMHSCE is a high school graduation requirement in New Mexico. It assesses students' competence in writing,…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Competence, Constructed Response, Curriculum Development
Ohio State Dept. of Education, Columbus. – 1995
This manual contains directions for the teacher and oral directions to be read to students taking the practice tests of the Ohio Proficiency Tests for grade 6. Directions are ordered in the sequence of the sections in the Practice Test booklet (writing, reading, mathematics, citizenship, and science), and they are similar, but not identical, to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Citizenship, Elementary School Students
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Accountability/Testing. – 1996
The North Carolina End-of-Grade Testing Program is based on the assessment of higher level skills in the context of specific subject-area content. These tests inform students, parents, the community, and educators about the achievement of North Carolina students in grades three through eight in given areas. This report describes the development…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Mathematics Tests
Davison, Mark L.; Chang, Yu-Wen – 1992
A two-dimensional, compensatory item response model and a unidimensional model were fitted to the reading and mathematics items in the Woodcock-Johnson Psycho-Educational Battery-Revised for a sample of 1,000 adults aged 20-39 years. Multidimensional information theory predicts that if the unidimensional abilities can be represented as vectors in…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Adults, Equations (Mathematics), Error of Measurement
San Diego City Schools, CA. Evaluation Services Dept. – 1987
This bulletin is intended to provide a brief summary of the California Assessment Program (CAP) testing results for the 1986-87 school year. General comments regarding testing in San Diego (California), commonly asked questions, and school- and district-level results are provided. Tabulated results cover mean scale scores for grades 3, 6, and 8…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 12, Grade 3
Rose, Janet S.; Gustin, William C. – 1986
This paper details the development of the high school general mathematics examination and reading comprehension tests for grades one through eight for the curriculum referenced testing program in Charleston County School District, South Carolina. While the basic developmental approach was similar, problems encountered in developing the two types…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Curriculum Development, Educational Objectives, Educational Testing
New Jersey State Dept. of Education, Trenton. – 1987
This report presents tables summarizing test results statewide for ninth-grade students who took the New Jersey High School Proficiency Test (HSPT) in April, 1987. The HSPT consists of reading, writing, and mathematics sections, and must be passed as one of the requirements for a high school diploma. Data include percent passing, mean score, and…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Graduation Requirements, High Schools, Mathematics Tests
New Jersey State Dept. of Education, Trenton. – 1987
This report summarizes test results statewide for tenth-grade students who took the New Jersey High School Proficiency Test (HSPT) in April, 1987. The HSPT consists of reading, writing, and mathematics sections, and must be passed as one of the requirements for a high school diploma. The tenth-grade students who were tested consisted of students…
Descriptors: Grade 10, Graduation Requirements, High Schools, Mathematics Tests
