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Wang, Lin – 1993
The Differential Aptitude Test (DAT) is a multiple aptitude battery designed to measure junior and senior high school students' and adults' ability to learn or succeed in certain areas. The test is suitable for group administration and is primarily for use in educational and vocational counseling, although it may be used in employee selection. The…
Descriptors: Ability, Adults, Aptitude Tests, Career Counseling
Muffo, John A. – 1996
Principles for college outcomes assessment, as outlined in the literature, are reviewed. Drawing on the experience of the Virginia State Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) during a decade of state-mandated outcomes assessment, a number of salient issues are identified. Faculty and academic issues include these: faculty…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), College Administration, College Faculty, College Outcomes Assessment
1995
This publication contains a selection of undergraduate and graduate student research papers offered to the Eta Sigma Gamma Society in the health science disciplines. Articles include: (1) "The Development of Public/Private Partnerships and Their Impact on the Future of Public Health" (James Broadbear); (2) "Cancer Knowledge,…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Adolescents, Blacks, Cancer
Seagraves, Margaret C. – 1995
The purpose of this research study was to build and pilot a psychometric instrument, the Primary Childhood School Success Scale (PCSSS), to identify behaviors needed for children to be successful in first grade. Fifty-two teacher responses were collected. The instrument had a reliability coefficient (Alpha) of 0.95, a mean of 13.26, and a variance…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Patterns, Child Development, Cognitive Development
Baker, Eva L.; And Others – 1990
As part of a project on assessing deep understanding of subject matter, a study was conducted to assess students' knowledge of history by focusing on essay writing. Reading a provided text was incorporated into the assessment procedure. Ratings from five high school history teachers were compared with those of four English teachers for 85 essays…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Advanced Placement Programs, Cognitive Measurement, Comparative Testing
Gredler, Margaret E. – 1999
This book presents the full array of assessment methods available to the classroom teacher in an interesting and engaging format, broadens the preservice and inservice teacher's understanding of related assessment issues, and places assessment in a meaningful context. The text, which was developed for an introductory course in classroom…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Constructed Response, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education

Nelson, Jo Ann N.; Simmerer, Norma J. – 1983
This report summarizes three related studies of 3- to 5-year-old children's temperament and its relationship to their social competence, ability to solve interpersonal problems, locus of control, parent behavior and teacher/child interactions. Fifty-eight children, predominantly middle class participants in a laboratory preschool, and their…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Birth Order, Fathers, Individual Differences
Rosa, Carlos M.; And Others – 1989
A study was undertaken to examine psychometric properties of "La Prueba Riverside de Realizacion en Espanol" (PRRE) and the "Spanish Assessment of Basic Education" (SABE) when administered to a sample of limited-English-proficient students, grades 1 through 8. Spanish-language versions of both tests were used for the study.…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Bilingual Education, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Background
Hilton, Thomas L.; And Others – 1985
A self-administering test of oral language fluency was developed for use with high school teachers of French and Spanish. Interviews were also conducted, and biographical data were collected. The original instrument was based on the Foreign Language Questionnaire Pretest developed for the Survey of Global Understanding Project. The focus of the…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, French, High Schools, Interviews
Finocchiaro, Mary; Sako, Sydney – 1983
This text on foreign language testing provides an overview of testing principles, problems, and practices, and examines the multiple roles of the classroom teacher, as well as the construction and scoring of more formal language tests. The following types or foreign language tests are distinguished: achievement or attainment tests, proficiency…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Communicative Competence (Languages), Diagnostic Tests
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1982
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 20 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) reading readiness, linguistic awareness, and nonverbal problem solving ability in relation to first grade reading achievement; (2) predictive accuracy of third…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Cloze Procedure, Content Area Reading, Doctoral Dissertations
Doughtie, Eugene B.; Alston, Herbert L. – 1976
The Board of Education of the Houston Independent School District, through the Volunteers in Public Schools, organized the Kindergarten Screening Project in 1970. The Kindergarten Screening Instrument (KSI) consists of five sub-scales: (1) the visual scale measures visual acuity at 20 feet; (2) the hearing scale measures the child's ability to…
Descriptors: Auditory Tests, Early Childhood Education, Eye Hand Coordination, Guides
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1978
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 15 titles include studies dealing with the following areas: the evaluation of student writing; the assessment of the communicative competence of kindergarten children; formulas for predicting high school reading achievement; an…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Black Students, Communication Skills, Doctoral Dissertations
Cahen, Leonard S. – 1977
The selection of second and fifth grade students for the Beginning Teacher Evaluation Study (BTES) is described. The BTES investigates teacher behaviors which relate to student achievement in reading and mathematics. From a group of teachers, schools, and districts volunteering to participate, 46 schools in 14 school districts were selected. The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Classroom Research, Cutting Scores
Slaughter, Helen B.; Gallas, Edwin J. – 1978
Concern was expressed for the possible effects of testing Elementary Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Title I students with norm-referenced tests that may be so difficult that many students will have scores in the chance range. The likelihood of such students obtaining equal scaled scores if they were tested with easier out-of-level tests was…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Comparative Testing, Disadvantaged Youth, Equated Scores