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Brown, John L.; Marzano, Robert J. – Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2009
Implementing the action steps from ASCD's best-seller "The Art and Science of Teaching" is much easier when you use this in-depth resource for workshops, professional learning communities, teacher training, and self-help. Hundreds of samples, guidelines, checklists, and activities help teachers in all grades and subjects become instant experts on…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Guides, Teaching Methods, Workshops
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Nikolov, Marianne – Language Learning, 2006
This paper gives an account of a project exploring 12- and 13-year-old children's uses of strategies while solving reading and writing test tasks in English as a foreign language EFL. The study was conducted to provide insights into how learners go about solving tasks and what they think and rely on while doing them. The first part provides an…
Descriptors: Test Wiseness, English (Second Language), Individual Differences, Academic Achievement
Grambs, David – 1992
Not aimed at beginning or elementary spellers, this book contains more than 100 tests interspersed with various informative items, pertinent quotations, amusing anecdotes, and lightly historical discourses relating to the orthography of English. The tests in the book represent a rather extensive vocabulary (a person who takes all of the tests is…
Descriptors: English, Higher Education, Independent Study, Pronunciation
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Thelen, Herbert A. – Elementary School Journal, 1975
Discusses the conflicts between the way teachers try to teach children and the way they measure what children have learned. Reprint from January 1960 "Elementary School Journal." (JMB)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Discovery Learning, Educational Testing, Student Centered Curriculum
Pedrini, D. T.; Pedrini, B. C. – 1987
Specific and detailed instructions to implement an environmental engineering approach to the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) Subject Test for Psychology are outlined. Focus is on helping students prepare for this test. Some universities use the GRE as a measure of achievement and aptitude and as a criterion test. In truth, such a test does not…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Graduate Students, Higher Education, Test Coaching
Tobias, Sigmund – 1984
This paper reviews the differences between two interpretations accounting for the poor test performance of high anxious students: (1) that anxiety interferes with retrieval of prior learning; or (2) that, due to study skills deficits, the initial acquisition by anxious students is less thorough than by those lower in anxiety. Research results…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Study Skills, Test Anxiety, Test Wiseness
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Horne, Arthur M. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1974
Investigates the effects of personality types on the effectiveness of various treatment procedures in reducing test anxiety. Fails to support previous studies in which group application of counseling techniques reduced anxiety more than did a study skills group. (Author/PC)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Modification, Individual Characteristics, Personality
Green, Bert F., Jr. – 1972
The use of Guttman weights in scoring tests is discussed. Scores of 2,500 men on one subtest of the CEED-SAT-Verbal Test were examined using cross-validated Guttman weights. Several scores were compared, as follows: Scores obtained from cross-validated Guttman weights; Scores obtained by rounding the Guttman weights to one digit, ranging from 0 to…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Reliability, Scoring Formulas, Test Results
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Stoffer, Gerald R.; And Others – Journal of Educational Research, 1977
Contrary to popular belief, and in accordance with research over a long period of time, changed answers to objective test items tend to be correct. (MJB)
Descriptors: Objective Tests, Raw Scores, Response Style (Tests), Test Results
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Rowley, Glenn L.; Traub, Ross E. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1977
The consequences of formula scoring versus number right scoring are examined in relation to the assumptions commonly made about the behavior of examinees in testing situations. The choice between the two is shown to be dependent upon having reduced error variance or unbiasedness as a goal. (Author/JKS)
Descriptors: Error of Measurement, Scoring Formulas, Statistical Bias, Test Wiseness
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Diamond, James J.; And Others – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1977
The test wiseness of inner city fifth and sixth grade pupils was investigated using a multiple choice test based upon fictitious material. Test wiseness was shown to exist and to be unrelated to verbal ability measures. The similarity of these findings to others in the literature is discussed. (Author/JKS)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Test Wiseness, Urban Youth
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Jensen, Arthur R. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1976
An experiment involving a Group X Training or No-training design does not logically permit conclusions concerning the genetic or nongenetic causes of the main effect of the group differences or their interaction with treatments, nor can such a design reflect on the culture-fairness of the measuring instrument. For related article, see TM 502 302.…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Tests, Problem Solving, Racial Differences, Racial Factors
Markel, Geraldine; And Others – Academic Therapy, 1985
Students with learning disabilities can prepare for the SATs (Stanford Achievement Tests) by (1) counseling sessions to discuss college prerequisites and pre-admission tests; (2) taking more academic courses or procuring necessary remedial help; (3) school personnel identifying and correcting skill weaknesses; and (4) discussing abuses and uses of…
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Learning Disabilities, Secondary Education, Standardized Tests
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LaSasso, Carol; Davey, Beth – Volta Review, 1983
Scores on multiple-choice and free-response tasks were compared for three age groups of hearing-impaired subjects with comparable reading comprehension scores. Results suggest that hearing-impaired students' performance on comprehension measures, when reinspection is permitted, is not related to age but instead may be related to particular…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Elementary Secondary Education, Hearing Impairments, Reading Comprehension
Downey, Gregg W. – American School Board Journal, 1977
In an attempt to raise district scores, the Washington, D.C., public schools are now beginning a program to train students to take standardized tests. (IRT)
Descriptors: Educational Testing, Elementary Secondary Education, Standardized Tests, Test Results
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