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Werner, Eric – 1991
Credentialing agencies that use multi-test examinations (MTEs) should be concerned with the quality of pass/fail outcomes as well as with the proportion of candidates passing. This study addressed three questions: (1) the effects on passing rate of MTE reliability, number of tests comprising a MTE, and correlations between pairs of component…
Descriptors: Accrediting Agencies, Agency Role, Certification, Comparative Analysis
Download full textNorth Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Accountability Services/Research. – 1990
To facilitate the proper technical use of the test scores obtained from the administration of the tests, the curricular and psychometric characteristics of the tests are described in a series of technical manuals. This manual, the eighth in the series, contains a description of the characteristics of the North Carolina Test of Geometry. This paper…
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Geometry, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Skills
Peer reviewedLudlow, Larry H.; Bell, Karen N. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1996
Fifty education majors in two sections responded to an Attitudes toward Mathematics and Its Teaching (ATMAT) scale. Results with two psychometric models, classical true-score theory and the one-parameter Rasch model, supported the ATMAT's reliability, content and construct validity, and invariance over three time points. (SLD)
Descriptors: College Students, Construct Validity, Education Majors, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedHamp-Lyons, Liz; Kroll, Barbara – College ESL, 1996
Presents an overview of the variables that contribute to the complexity of English-as-a-Second-Language writing assessment design. (63 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, English for Academic Purposes, Evaluation Methods
Vispoel, Walter P.; Chen, Ping – 1990
Currently available measures of self-efficacy described in educational and psychological research literature were cataloged and reviewed after a literature search. To identify and locate these measures, searches of "Psychological Abstracts" and the ERIC system were conducted using self-efficacy and related keywords. Results of the…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Educational Research, Literature Reviews, Meta Analysis
Bruno, Rachelle M.; Walker, Stephen C. – Diagnostique, 1999
This article describes the Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing, an assessment instrument designed to assess the phonological processing skills of individuals between the ages of 5 and 24.11 years and to identify those with phonological processing difficulties. Its administration, standardization, reliability, and validity are discussed.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Disability Identification, Language Impairments
Bachor, Dan G. – Diagnostique, 1999
This article reviews the revised KeyMath Revised-Normative Update American and Canadian editions, and a draft version of the 1999 pending revision. The assessment instrument is intended to test basic mathematical concepts, operations, and applications of students in grades K-12. Its administration, standardization, reliability, and validity are…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Mathematical Concepts
Walker, David – Diagnostique, 1999
This article describes the Behavior Assessment System for Children, a multimethod, multidimensional approach to evaluating the behaviors and self-perceptions of children ages 2.6 to 18 years. The BASC contains a Teacher Rating Scale, a Parent Rating Scale, and a Child Self-Report of Personality. Its administration, reliability, and validity are…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Disorders, Behavior Rating Scales, Children
Ashton, Tamarah M. – Diagnostique, 1999
This article describes the Comprehensive Assessment of Reading Strategies, a six-level diagnostic series for evaluating mastery of 12 reading strategies at each level by students in grades 3 through 8, as well as allowing for their metacognitive self-assessment. Its administration, standardization; reliability, and validity are discussed.…
Descriptors: Disability Identification, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Ability, Reading Difficulties
Nicholson, Charles L. – Diagnostique, 1999
This article describes the Comprehensive Test of Nonverbal Intelligence, an assessment designed to evaluate the intellectual ability of students ages 6 to 18.11 years for whom other mental ability tests are inappropriate or to enable comparisons between verbal and nonverbal intellectual ability. Its administration, standardization, reliability,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Disabilities, Disability Identification
Shou, Priscilla – 1993
The Singer-Loomis Inventory of Personality (SLIP) was developed by two Jungian analysts to allow examination of personality from the perspective of Jung's typology and to solve problems perceived with the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, based on Jungian dichotomies. The SLIP is designed to clarify and describe the user's personality based on the…
Descriptors: Adults, Classification, Cognitive Style, Extraversion Introversion
Winnick, Joseph P.; Short, Francis X. – 1998
This test manual presents information on the Brockport Physical Fitness Test (BPFT), a criterion-referenced fitness test for children and adolescents with disabilities. The first chapter of the test manual includes an introduction and target populations are identified, defined, and classified. The second chapter presents information on the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Health, Children, Criterion Referenced Tests
Naglieri, Jack A.; Das, J. P. – 1997
This kit contains materials necessary to administer the Cognitive Assessment System (CAS), an assessment battery designed to evaluate cognitive processing in children 5 through 17 years of age. Derived from the Planning, Attention, Simultaneous, and Successive (PASS) theory, the four processing areas comprise the four scales that make up the CAS.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attention Span, Children, Cognitive Ability
Strawser, Sherri; Sileo, Nancy – Diagnostique, 1999
This article describes the Developmental Indicators for the Assessment of Learning-Third Edition, a global screener designed to be administered to children ages 3 through 6.11 years. The instrument assesses motor skills, conceptual knowledge, language skills, self-help skills, and social behaviors. Its administration, standardization, reliability,…
Descriptors: Child Development, Disabilities, Disability Identification, Early Childhood Education
Tiner, Jennifer Frey – 1993
The Values Scale (VS) is a self-report inventory of 106 scored items yielding 21 separate scales for the individual assessment of upper elementary school and middle school students as well as adult members of semi-skilled, skilled, clerical, managerial, and professional occupations. The VS, available in seven languages, measures several intrinsic…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Attitude Measures, Children
