Publication Date
In 2025 | 0 |
Since 2024 | 17 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 81 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 197 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 401 |
Descriptor
Aptitude Tests | 2700 |
Test Validity | 863 |
Test Reliability | 647 |
Job Skills | 506 |
Career Guidance | 496 |
Personnel Evaluation | 490 |
Evaluation Criteria | 489 |
Achievement Tests | 484 |
Norms | 479 |
Job Applicants | 461 |
Cutting Scores | 445 |
More ▼ |
Source
Author
Publication Type
Education Level
Audience
Practitioners | 104 |
Researchers | 67 |
Teachers | 44 |
Counselors | 36 |
Students | 20 |
Administrators | 14 |
Policymakers | 10 |
Parents | 8 |
Community | 1 |
Location
Texas | 27 |
California | 26 |
Canada | 22 |
Australia | 17 |
United States | 17 |
Texas (Houston) | 16 |
New York | 15 |
Saudi Arabia | 15 |
North Carolina | 14 |
Sweden | 14 |
Israel | 13 |
More ▼ |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Does not meet standards | 1 |
Dolin, Nancy C. – 1976
This profile of entering freshmen at North Carolina State University for fall 1976 presents statistical data and a descriptive summary of the data. Information is presented on the following: new freshmen headcount enrollment by field of study by sex (1970-76) and by residence (in-state, national, or international); new freshmen black enrollment…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, College Freshmen, Educational Objectives, Enrollment Rate
Pate, Nancy D. – 1978
This profile of entering freshmen at North Carolina State University for fall 1978 presents statistical data and a descriptive summary of the data. Information is presented on the following: new freshmen headcount enrollment by field of study by sex (1972-78) and by residence (in-state, national, or international); new freshmen black enrollment…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Black Students, College Freshmen, Educational Objectives
Evans, Franklin R. – 1977
A special course was designed to aid undergraduate subjects in preparing for the Graduate Record Examination--Quantitative (GRE-Q). The course included a short one-session discussion (Anxiety Reduction Session) of the GRE and its uses, and four sessions devoted to specific instruction in the basic mathematics required for the test and strategies…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Black Students, College Entrance Examinations, Cultural Differences
Alley, William E.; Gibson, Terry A. – 1977
Research was conducted to improve applicant selection procedures in the Air Force Reserve Officers' Training Corps (AFROTC) scholarship program. The objectives were to document predictive relationships, if any, between student aptitude measures, academic major, institutional selectivity, and eventual completion of the scholarship program. The…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academic Ability, Aptitude Tests, College Students
Bockman, John F. – 1968
In an effort to support Carroll's premise that there might be a relationship between foreign language aptitude and the degree to which the learner is capable of coping with the pace of language instruction, this study describes the comparative effectiveness of predicting student language learning potential through the Pimsleur Aptitude Battery,…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Bilingual Students, Comparative Analysis, Evaluation Methods
Neumann, Idell; And Others – 1968
A recently initiated research program, designed to develop tests and other procedures for improving the selection of military personnel for language training, has attempted to amplify the traditional language aptitude requirement to include systematic non-cognitive measures of the prospective trainee's motivation. (Author/AF)
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Aptitude Tests
Bockman, John F. – 1967
This talk delivered at the 1967 annual meeting of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages examines a statistically-oriented assessment of the foreign language program at Tucson, Arizona. The text includes reprints of 25 transparencies used, largely drawn from the results of two groups of tests: (1) the Modern Language Association…
Descriptors: Achievement, Aptitude Tests, Course Evaluation, Curriculum Design
Rodriquez Mungia, Juan C.; Pereira, Ildeberto – 1972
This booklet presents a list of testing materials in English as a second language and Spanish. Among the information included are the name and description of each test, the test level, the address of the publisher, and the known uses. Forty-three tests are discussed. (SK)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism
Lohman, David F. – National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented, 2005
The cultural and socioeconomic diversity of the U.S. school population is now and long has been underrepresented in programs for academically advanced students (see, e.g., Donovan & Cross, 2002; Marland, 1972). In the past decade, however, educators have offered several proposals for increasing the diversity of programs for the gifted and talented…
Descriptors: Advanced Students, Academic Achievement, Talent Identification, Minority Group Children
Segel, David; Proffitt, Maris M. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1938
This bulletin is one of a series of publications reporting the findings of investigations undertaken during 1936-37 under the research project in universities of the Office of Education. The project was financed under the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, and conducted in accordance with administrative regulations of the Works Progress…
Descriptors: School Holding Power, College Programs, College Students, Investigations
Curran, Linda T. – 1996
The Department of Defense is developing norms for its Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) and the newly created Interest Finder, a vocational interest inventory. The normative effort, called the 1997 Profile of American Youth (PAY97), will be undertaken as part of the Bureau of Labor Statistics' 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Adolescents, Aptitude Tests, Armed Forces
Powell, Douglas R.; Peet, Susan H. – 1996
This study explored mothers' beliefs about their children's educational and occupational futures, and it examined relationships between mothers' beliefs and children's academic achievement and between mothers' beliefs and maternal perceptions of parental responsibilities. A sample of 141 mothers and their first- or fourth-grade child participated…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Achievement, Aptitude Tests
Kapes, Jerome T.; And Others – 1992
An investigation was made of the use of vocational assessment instruments with students with special needs as part of the requirements of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act. Coordinators at the 20 regional Educational Service Centers in Texas distributed surveys to personnel in each district who were responsible for vocational…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Compliance (Legal), Disabilities, Disadvantaged
Wigdor, Alexandra K., Ed.; Green, Bert F., Jr., Ed. – 1991
This is the sixth and final report of the National Research Council's Committee on the Performance of Military Personnel on the Joint-Service Job Performance Measurement/Enlistment Standards (JPM) Project, a project designed to develop measures of performance for entry-level military jobs so that enlistment standards could be linked to performance…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Armed Forces, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Assessment
Todesco, Angie; Castonguay, Therese – 1988
The uses of aptitude tests for entry to language training, diagnosis, placement for training, and certification are described. The Language Training Program of the Public Service Commission of Canada provides language training and testing in French and English to public servants required to use either official language. A variety of aptitude tests…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Certification, English (Second Language), Federal Government