"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…

The study involving 40 learning disabled (LD) Ss, investigated whether or not regular classroom test scores of LD junior high school students may be improved by training those students to use a test taking strategy. Results showed significantly higher posttest scores for the experimental than the control Ss. Test taking skills were found to…

Performance on subtests of the California Achievement Tests was compared for students in grades one, two, four, and five who had been assigned to one of two groups, one of which had received formal instruction in test-taking skills. Results are discussed. (Author/MT)

Reading comprehension performance of 50 prelingually, profoundly hearing-impaired and 50 normal-hearing Ss of comparable ages and reading levels was compared. Results indicated that although visual matching was used to some extent by normal-hearing students, it was used much more extensively by hearing-impaired students with comparable ages and…

States that, due to confusion of concepts and lack of systemization, "previous studies are often difficult to interpret and consequently...afford little possibility of formulating more precise statements about those errors the concepts represent...." A proposal for systematization is presented. (Author/RW)

This study is a partial replication and extension of research reported by Golomb and Cornelius in 1977. Training in the present study was significantly less effective than in the earlier research. Findings suggest experimenter and testing effects on performance. (RH)

Preservice and inservice teacher education programs should incorporate the teaching of test wiseness in their curricula. (CMJ)

Questions the effects of tests on children, teachers, school districts, and parents. Advocates a redefinition of current testing practices. (CM)

Reviews common errors in accounting tests that students commit resulting from deficiencies in fundamental prior knowledge, ineffective test taking, and inattention to detail and provides solutions to the problems. (JOW)

Nursing students (n=24) took conventional individual unit and final exams; 25 others used collaborative testing for units and individual final exams. Overall comprehension was equivalent; collaboration improved unit exam scores. There was indirect evidence that collaboration altered test-taking skills. (SK)

Ten suggestions to help students increase standardized test scores include: read directions carefully; peek at the questions before reading stories or articles; note key words; use parts of questions to help plan answers; look back at the text; think before writing; write clearly and legibly; pay attention to how the test is scored; manage time…

This booklet is intended to help students do their best on the ACT. It summarizes general test-taking strategies, describes the content of each test, provides specific tips for each, and lets students know what they can expect on test day. Included in this booklet are complete practice tests--"retired" ACT questions that were administered to…

Students in an undergraduate human development course (N = 215) participated in a brief assessment of their reading (comprehension level, reading speed, comprehension rate) and multiple-choice test-taking skills on the second day of class. Students first read a one-page, 400-word passage unrelated to the course and then answered 10…

This study describes the reading and test-taking strategies that test takers used on the "Reading" section of the "LanguEdge Courseware" (2002) materials developed to familiarize prospective respondents with the new TOEFL. The investigation focused on strategies used to respond to more traditional "single selection"…

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…