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Ragosta, Marjorie – 1987
Four years of data (1980 to 1983) from "College-Bound Seniors: Eleven Years of National Data from the College Board's Admissions Testing Program 1973-1983" have been extracted and reported as a comparison for analogous data on test takers with hearing, learning, physical and visual disabilities over the same four years. The data on…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, College Admission, College Entrance Examinations, Disabilities
American Coll. Testing Program, Iowa City, IA. – 1981
Normative data on students who took the American College Testing (ACT) Program Assessment during the 1980-1981 academic year are presented, based on a 10-percent national sample. Statistics are presented on academic abilities, interests, goals and aspirations, high school achievements and student characteristics, evaluation of the local high…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Academic Aspiration, Aptitude Tests, Career Choice
American Coll. Testing Program, Iowa City, IA. – 1982
Normative data on students who took the American College Testing (ACT) Program Assessment during the 1981-1982 academic year are presented, based on a 10 percent national sample. Statistics are presented on academic abilities, interests, goals and aspirations, high school achievements and student characteristics, evaluation of the local high…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Academic Aspiration, Aptitude Tests, Career Choice
Cooksey, Lana; Stenning, Walter F. – 1981
The use of the restructured Graduate Record Examination (GRE), students' entering grade point averages (GPAs), and other variables as predictors of success in graduate school at Texas A&M University (TAMU) was studied. Comparisons were also made to a similar study (Kunze, 1974). A sample of 564 entering graduate students who had taken the…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Grade Point Average, Graduate Students, Higher Education
Rawnsley, David E. – 1977
Declining test scores have been publicized throughout the nation for the past several years as a major educational issue. Because of the kinds of statements made, the conclusions drawn by educators and public alike, the San Mateo Educational Resources Center requested that a review of the literature and a bibliography be prepared that indicated…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Annotated Bibliographies, Aptitude Tests, College Entrance Examinations
Conrad, Linda, Ed.; And Others – 1977
This manual supplements previous guides to the use of the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE). It provides sufficient detailed information about the GREs to permit measurement specialists and institutional researchers, as well as faculty members and administrators, to understand the development of the tests and to evaluate their usefulness.…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, College Entrance Examinations, Content Analysis, Graduate Study

McCornack, Robert L.; Mcleod, Mary M. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1988
Whether college grades are gender-related to traditional predictors of aptitude test scores and high-school grades was studied. Fall and spring (1985-86) enrollments in 88 introductory university courses (IUCs) were analyzed. In most of the large IUCs, no gender bias held up on cross-validation in a subsequent semester. (TJH)
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Grade Point Average, Grade Prediction, High School Students
Baker, Carl E. – 1995
The Detroit Tests of Learning Aptitude, 3rd Edition (DLTA-3) is a battery of 11 subtests that measure different but interrelated mental abilities. These are clinically assessed by the battery, which further attempts to delineate the factors that contribute to Spearman's factor for general intelligence. The DLTA-3 has age norms expressed for test…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Children, Clinical Diagnosis, Diagnostic Tests
Green, Kathy E.; Schroeder, David H. – 1992
Results of an analysis of a newly developed spelling test and several related measures are reported. Information about the reliability of a newly developed spelling test; its distribution of scores; its relationship with the standard battery of aptitude tests of the Johnson O'Connor Research Foundation; and its relationships with sex, age,…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Aptitude Tests, Career Choice
Wendel, Frederick C.; And Others – 1991
Findings of a study that examined the relationship between aspiring educational administrators' graduate school admissions test performances and their assessed skill dimensions are presented in this paper. Specifically, the study sought to determine the relationship between graduate admissions test scores, as measured by the Miller Analogies Test…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Administrator Education, Aptitude, Aptitude Tests
Lay, Robert; Wakstein, Julie – 1984
Data on Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores by race are analyzed in order to explain observed differences in scores among racial and ethnic segments of college-bound test takers. A social psychological correlate that mediates between environmental factors and SAT performance is emphasized. Consideration is given to the finding that blacks at the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aptitude Tests, Black Students, College Bound Students
Swarthout, David – 1988
The analyses of J. E. Hunter (1983) were replicated with an expanded data set. The Hunter study, the basis of the Validity Generalization system used by the United States Employment Service, contained 515 General Aptitude Test Battery validation studies. The data set in this study included these and additional studies to bring the data set to 755…
Descriptors: Adults, Aptitude Tests, Cluster Grouping, Job Applicants
Humphries, Frederick S. – 1983
Grade regulations/academic standards for new college athletes are discussed by the president of Tennessee State University, based on the objectives of Proposition 48, which was adopted in 1982 by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The proposition applies to Division 1 schools and would require that academically high-risk students…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accreditation (Institutions), Accrediting Agencies, Aptitude Tests

Altman, Robert A. – 1977
The data presented in this report summarize the background characteristics of 223,582 college students who took the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) Aptitude Test during 1976-77 and who responded to at least one of the twenty background questions. Similar background data were also collected during 1975-1976; this report covers only those…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Biographical Inventories, College Entrance Examinations, College Students
Marco, Gary L. – 1968
Normative data were obtained on the performance of first-year graduate students on the Aptitude Test and Advanced Tests of the Graduate Record Examinations. The population consisted of students enrolled as full-time graduate students for the first time in the fall of 1964 in a college or university belonging to the Council of Graduate Schools…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, College Entrance Examinations, Error of Measurement