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Direct linkMueller Gathercole, Virginia C.; Thomas, Enlli Mon; Hughes, Emma – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2008
The purpose of this paper is to propose an applied model for the assessment of bilingual children's language abilities with standardised tests. We discuss the purposes of such tests, especially in relation to vocabulary knowledge, and potential applications of test results for each of those purposes. The specific case to be examined here is that…
Descriptors: Test Results, Language Tests, Monolingualism, Vocabulary Development
Efforts to Produce Relevant Score Reports to School, District, and State Officials on National Tests
Download full textPatelis, Thanos; Matos-Elefonte, Haifa – College Board, 2009
Presented at the Annual National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) in San Diego in April 2009. This presentation explores how the College Board strives to ensure the relevance and utility of score reporting practices and methods for the PSAT/NMSQT and SAT scores. The new reporting methods allow for greater interaction and intervention at…
Descriptors: High School Students, College Entrance Examinations, Aptitude Tests, Standardized Tests
Pyle, Katie; Jones, Emily; Williams, Chris; Morrison, Jo – Educational Research, 2009
Background: All national curriculum tests in England are pre-tested as part of the development process. Differences in pupil performance between pre-test and live test are consistently found. This difference has been termed the pre-test effect. Understanding the pre-test effect is essential in the test development and selection processes and in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pretesting, Context Effect, National Curriculum
Colazzo, Luigi; Comai, Alessio; Davi, Filippo; Molinari, Andrea; Villa, Nicola – Online Submission, 2010
This paper introduces a set of services for the creation of on-line surveys, questionnaires, exams and self-assessment tests within a virtual community system used in e-learning settings. The system, called "Online Communities", is a dynamic web application used as platform for blended learning activities by the Faculty of Economics of…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Feedback (Response), Test Results, Internet
Zamboanga, Byron L.; Padilla-Walker, Laura M.; Hardy, Sam A.; Thompson, Ross A.; Wang, Sherry C. – Teaching of Psychology, 2007
We examined how academic background and course involvement differentially predicted students' performance on lecture- and text-based exam questions (N = 114; 34% men; 76% freshmen). Results showed that academic background and course involvement predicted performance on lecture-based questions and overall exam performance, whereas academic…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Academic Achievement, Prediction, Teaching Methods
Bernhardt, Victoria L.; Geise, Bradley J. – Eye on Education, 2009
How do the best administrators find out how to improve their schools? They actively engage the people who work and study there. In "From Questions to Actions: Using Questionnaire Data for Continuous School Improvement," data experts Victoria L. Bernhardt and Bradley J. Geise explain how to collect and analyze data with an eye toward positive…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Questionnaires, Educational Change, Data Analysis
Peer reviewedHakstian, A. Ralph – Journal of Educational Research, 1971
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Results, Testing
Monk, Janice J.; Stallings, William M. – J Educ Res, 1970
Descriptors: Item Analysis, Test Construction, Test Results
Simon, George B. – J Educ Meas, 1969
Descriptors: Item Analysis, Measurement Instruments, Test Construction, Test Results
Lee, Saekyun H.; Han, Hyunjoo – Applied Language Learning, 2007
This study investigated some issues regarding the validity of the Scholastic Achievement Test (SAT) Subject Test: Korean with Listening. The SAT Korean has been administered just once a year since its inception in 1997. As of March 2006, it had been administered nine times. However, SAT foreign language tests are not as rigorously researched as…
Descriptors: Test Results, Second Language Learning, Language Tests, Academic Achievement
US Citizenship and Immigration Services, 2008
"Naturalization Test Redesign Project: Civics Item Selection Analysis" provides an overview of the development of content items for the U.S. history and government (civics) portion of the redesigned naturalization test. This document also reviews the process used to gather and analyze data from multiple studies to determine which civics…
Descriptors: History, Test Items, Citizenship, Individual Testing
Felker, Donald W.; and others – J Psychol, 1969
Descriptors: College Students, Research, Test Construction, Test Results
Toronto Univ. (Ontario). Dept. of Geology. – 1965
The PEDAGE system, at the present time, is a set of programs written in FORTRAN IV language for an IBM 7094 computer. They are in the form of separate main programs with similar data formats, but will be modified in the future to the form of subroutines so that one or more can be called by main programs designed by the individual users. In this…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Educational Testing, Scoring, Test Construction
Connell, Peter A.; Snider, James G. – Educ Res, 1970
Descriptors: English, Oral English, Test Construction, Test Results
Unidimensional Data from Multidimensional Tests and Multidimensional Data from Unidimensional Tests.
Reckase, Mark D. – 1990
Although the issue of dimensionality of the data obtained from educational and psychological tests has received considerable attention, the terms "unidimensional" and "multidimensional" have not been used very precisely. One use of the term dimensionality is to refer to the number of hypothesized psychological constructs…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Matrices, Statistical Analysis, Test Construction
