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Yamagishi, Midori; Gillmore, Gerald M. – 1980
The relationship of Nelson-Denny Reading Test scores and an English course placement recommendation to academic success of Educational Opportunity Program students at the University of Washington was studied. The placement recommendation was based on a writing sample and test scores. The 207 freshmen students who entered in either 1976 or 1978…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, American Indians, Asian Americans, Black Students
A Cooperative Program Between a City School District and a Suburban School District. Interim Report.
Rochester City School District, NY. – 1967
An urban-suburban interdistrict program is described in which efforts were made to correct racial imbalance in both districts. In 1965 free transportation was provided for 25 first grade children who were sent voluntarily from a Rochester, N.Y. public school to six schools in the West Irondequoit district. This longitudinal metropolitan approach…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Control Groups, Experimental Groups
Philadelphia Council for Community Advancement, PA. – 1965
The purpose of this program was to help disadvantaged preschool children overcome some of the handicaps which hindered their educational, social and emotional development, to increase the interaction between the home and school, and to make the teacher sensitive to the particular needs of his disadvantaged pupils. The program, which operated in…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, College Students, Compensatory Education, Concept Teaching
Rest, James; And Others – 1977
Six papers, originally presented in different form at the 1977 Convention of the Society for Research in Child Development, highlight approximately 100 studies that have used the Defining Issues Test (DIT) of moral judgment. The DIT's standardized format and objective scoring makes comparisons possible among studies, and this body of research…
Descriptors: Adults, Cognitive Development, College Students, Correlation
American Association of Dental Schools, Washington, DC. – 1978
Extensive data are gathered on entry into dental schools in the United States and Canada; all schools are included. In addition to brief chapters on dentistry as a career and planning for dental education, information provided for the entering class of 1979-80 by each school is given. This information includes: general information on the school;…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Admission (School), Advanced Placement, Allied Health Occupations Education
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. Office of Program Evaluation and Research. – 1976
Since the California Assessment Program began in 1972 to provide information for evaluation of school programs in California, major changes in testing practices have occurred. Scholastic aptitude testing has been eliminated in all grades; state-designed reading and basic skills tests are administered in grades one, two, three, six, and twelve.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Administrator Guides, Basic Skills
Northwestern Tri-County Intermediate Unit 5, Edinboro, PA. – 1976
An evaluation was conducted to measure the effectiveness of the K-12 Career Education Curriculum Model developed and implemented in the Northwest Tri-County Intermediate Unit (Edinboro, Pennsylvania). (See CE 017 643 for a detailed description of the project.) Career awareness, career exploration, and career preparation of pupils, K-12, were…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Awareness, Career Development, Career Education
Baird, Leonard L., Ed. – 1977
Assessment of student progress in community colleges is necessary for several reasons; among them are accountability to the public, improvement of decision-making for both students and educators, and planning and evaluation of curricula. This sourcebook focuses on various types of student progress--vocational, social, academic, transfer--and on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Colleges, Community Services, Educational Assessment
Ratteray, Joan D. – 1974
Numerous strategies have been used throughout the years to test cultural groups. This paper grew out of the need to find and use standardized tests that would depict accurately the performance of various cultural groups in America. In order to make judgments about performance, it is wise to examine the theoretical structure from which most of the…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Criterion Referenced Tests, Cultural Differences, Culture Fair Tests
Jongsma, Eugene A.; Warshauer, Elaine – 1975
The purpose of this report is to: (1) summarize the attempts that have been made to define and investigate test wiseness, particularly those efforts made at teaching test wiseness; (2) identify gaps and deficiencies in the existing body of research; (3) make recommendations as to the direction that future research in this area should take; and (4)…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Comparative Analysis, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Research
Dissemination and Assessment Center for Bilingual Education, Austin, TX. – 1975
This compendium of over 250 evaluation instruments in use by project sites throughout the U.S. is designed to assist bilingual/bicultural educators in locating, developing, or adapting evaluation instruments suitable to local assessment needs. The titles and descriptions of instruments listed are those provided by staff in bilingual/bicultural…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Annotated Bibliographies, Biculturalism, Bilingual Education
Erickson, Richard C.; Wentling, Tim L. – 1976
Designed for current and future occupational instructors, counselors, and administrators, the comprehensive measurement text is directed toward all subject areas in occupational education--industrial, business/distributive, home economics, agriculture, health occupations, and personal/public services. It offers necessary guidelines to select,…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Allied Health Occupations Education, Business Education, Educational Testing

College Entrance Examination Board, New York, NY. – 1968
This description of the Advanced Placement Program in Latin for secondary school students furnishes the scope of the four courses (Vergil, Comedy, Lyric, and Prose) on which the tests are based and outlines of each test. Examples and achievement standards are offered with sample test items. Interested individuals and institutions are also provided…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Advanced Placement, Advanced Placement Programs, Articulation (Education)

California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. Office of Program Evaluation and Research. – 1974
Presented are findings from California's State testing program for 1971-72 and 1972-73. The factors (variables) examined were divided into two groups: output factors, indicators of school quality such as scores on achievement tests; and input factors, factors describing the characteristics of school districts such as class size, tax rate, etc.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Class Size, Comparative Analysis
Peace Corps, Washington, DC. – 1968
This report summarizes a study published in 1967 by Harvard University which assessed foreign language proficiency of U.S. college seniors majoring in French, Spanish, Italian, German, and Russian. The measures used were the following: the MLA Foreign Language Proficiency Tests (Form A): Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing; the Modern…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Audiolingual Skills, College Language Programs, College Students