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Riverside Publishing Co., Chicago. IL. – 1991
The Diagnostic Assessments of Reading with Trial Teaching Strategies (DARTTS) is a program of diagnostic tests with sample lessons in aspects of literacy. Developed by Florence G. Roswell and Jeanne S. Chall, the DARTTS program is published in a multilevel format for beginning through advanced (high school) readers. Teachers administer and score…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Lesson Plans
Riverside Publishing Co., Chicago. IL. – 1990
This administrator's summary describes the Tests of Achievement and Proficiency (TAP). The TAP battery is designed to provide information about the strengths and weaknesses of the instructional program and about skills performance of individual students in grades 9 through 12. The TAP may be administered at the year's beginning, middle, or end;…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Assessment, Expressive Language
O'Neal, Marcia R. – 1991
Six item bias detection techniques (distractor analysis, the Mantel-Haenszel procedure, Angoff's delta plot, Angoff's modified delta plot, Stricker's partial correlation index, and direct comparison of item difficulties) were compared for their ability to identify biased items at three stages of test development. The techniques were applied to…
Descriptors: Black Students, Comparative Analysis, Correlation, Difficulty Level
Mills, Rollin W. – 1998
This study was conducted to evaluate the tests developed by elementary foreign language teachers of French, Japanese, and Spanish in a school district in South Carolina. The tests were designed to determine the level of end-of-year student learning and to provide a basis for evaluating the curriculum of each of the three languages. The French and…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Elementary Education, French, Japanese
Laskey, Marcia L.; Totoraitis, Ann – 1992
An annotated list of tests for assessing students' learning abilities is provided in this document. Each annotation contains information that helps the educator gauge the negative and positive aspects of the tests. Information useful in understanding intelligence quotient (IQ) subscores and their implications is included. The tests described are…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Critical Thinking, Diagnostic Tests, Educational Diagnosis
Massachusetts State Dept. of Education, Boston. – 1990
Chapter 188 of the Massachusetts Acts of 1985 established a statewide testing program that began in 1986. The Massachusetts Testing Program functions to improve curriculum and instruction in the public schools and districts, identify students needing assistance in mastering basic skills in the classroom, and make results available to the public.…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Educational Assessment, Educational Improvement, Elementary Secondary Education
Lanese, James F. – 1992
To answer several questions about the Ohio statewide high school proficiency testing program, correlations of student performance on the ninth-grade proficiency test with other measures of reading and mathematics were studied for approximately 4,600 students in the Cleveland (Ohio) City School District. The performance of students from higher…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Correlation, Criterion Referenced Tests, Grade 9
Thomas, Brenda; Badger, Elizabeth – 1991
In the spring of 1990, over 9,000 4th-, 8th- and 12th-grade students (only 6 percent of all students in Massachusetts) were assessed using open-ended mathematical, scientific, social studies, and reading concepts. Beginning with the Massachusetts Educational Assessment Program for 1992, open-ended questions will be administered to all students and…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 4
Massachusetts State Dept. of Education, Boston. – 1989
The Massachusetts Educational Assessment Program (MEAP) is designed to improve curriculum and instruction in the public schools. The MEAP tests all students in grades 4, 8, and 12 in major curriculum areas biennially. The test is not designed to yield scores for individual students. This document describes the content of the assessment instruments…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Assessment, Grade 12, Grade 4
Rock, Donald A.; Pollack, Judith M. – 1991
The National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88) is designed to monitor the transition of a national sample of young adults as they progress from junior to senior high school and then to postsecondary education or the world of work. An in-depth description is provided of the rationale, development, and psychometric properties of the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Citizenship Education, Geography, Grade 8
Hodges, Daniel L. – 1990
At Oregon's Lane Community College (LCC), all full-time students and students enrolled in English Composition (WR121) are required to take a 35-item writing placement test. Students with test scores deemed "marginal" (i.e, those scoring between 20 and 24 points) are advised to take a preparatory course (WR120) before enrolling in WR121,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Colleges, Grades (Scholastic), Institutional Research
Badger, Elizabeth; Thomas, Brenda – 1989
In the spring of 1988, Massachusetts conducted its second Educational Assessment Program to assess the performance of students in grades 4, 8, and 12 in reading, mathematics, science, and social studies. Students' responses to open-ended questions in one form of the reading test were studied. One-twelfth of the fourth-graders, one-sixteenth of the…
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Figurative Language
South Carolina State Dept. of Education, Columbia. Office of Research. – 1989
This document is the annual report on the South Carolina Basic Skills Assessment Program (BSAP) established by legislation in 1978. In 1988, the tests and the monitoring of the instructional components were completed on time. The tests include: (1) first grade readiness; (2) tests for grades 1, 2, 3, 6, and 8; and (3) the Exit Examination required…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Elementary Secondary Education
Lanese, James F. – 1990
A strategy that has been initiated to respond to assertions that out-of-date norms distort standardized achievement test results involves annually updating the norms for achievement tests to avoid the production of inflated scores through aging norms. The effect of the application of normative trend data to the obtained test results in an urban…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Data Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education
DeMauro, Gerald E. – 1987
Evaluation of bilingual education programs is limited by the absence of appropriate standards against which program success may be gauged. Normative and criterion models have been used, inadequately. The current paper revisits the normative model, and examines the relative advantages of using norms based on the performances of…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Criterion Referenced Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)