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Echternacht, Gary J. – 1972
Differences between black and white, male and female groups who took the Admission Test for Graduate Study in Business (ATGSB) during February 1971 were examined in three studies. The studies were: (1) a study of the biasedness of the test with respect to the groups, (2) a comparison of the mean criterion scores for those candidates who omit…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Black Students, Business Education, Females

Mann, Thomas Wolfe – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1987
Laments the widespread cheating among public school students and their lack of imagination in cheating methods, and then recounts the story of two ingenious master cheaters (fraternity brothers) at the University of North Carolina. (NKA)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Cheating, Codes of Ethics, Discipline Policy

Horowitz, Daniel – English for Specific Purposes, 1986
Presents a four-task typology (concept, relation, process, argumentation) of essay examination prompts, based on study of 284 prompts used in 15 academic departments at Western Illinois University, and shows how it can be used to help foreign students sharpen their English-language essay examination-taking skills. (CB)
Descriptors: Classification, College Students, Cues, English for Academic Purposes

Johns, Ann M. – English for Specific Purposes, 1988
Discusses current research and personal experience in designing courses in English for academic purposes that help develop generalizable, transferable skills. Helpful research includes: (1) looking at needs and learning as a continuous process; (2) qualitative rather than quantitative studies; and (3) expert-novice juxtaposition. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Course Content, Curriculum Development, English (Second Language), English for Academic Purposes

Benjamin, Ludy T., Jr.; And Others – Teaching of Psychology, 1984
A review of 33 research studies which examined issues surrounding answer-changing behavior on objective tests indicated that (1) the majority of answer changes are from incorrect to correct, (2) most students who change their answers improve their test scores, and (3) most test-takers change answers. Future research needs are discussed. (RM)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Guessing (Tests), Higher Education
Bond, Lloyd – Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 2003
The writer looks at the often contradictory ways in which tests are seen and used. We are told by its defenders that the SAT is a superb measure of academic promise, but its detractors insist that it is next to useless in helping colleges and universities select their entering class. Test-driven accountability systems have been criticized as…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Academic Achievement, Accountability, Educational Opportunities
Lenski, Susan Davis; Wham, Mary Ann; Johns, Jerry L. – 1999
Written in a form that is easy to use in the classroom, this book presents a wide variety of ideas and teaching strategies adapted for content area teachers. There is a least one content area example for each strategy presented in the book; many strategies have examples gleaned from more than one subject. Chapters in the book are: (1) Reading To…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Content Area Reading, High Schools, Middle Schools
Delaware State Dept. of Public Instruction, Dover. – 1999
The purpose of this reading sampler is to familiarize Delaware teachers and students with the reading comprehension portion of the Delaware Student Testing Program. Included is information about the reading tests for grades 3, 5, 8, and 10. This sampler contains the following examples for each grade level: a reading passage; a multiple choice…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Achievement, Reading Comprehension
Powers, Donald E. – College Entrance Examination Board, 1995
Data were reanalyzed from a previously reported study of the passage dependence of reading comprehension questions being developed for the revised SAT. The objective was to uncover any gender differences in approaches to and performance on a task requiring examinees to answer reading comprehension questions without reading the passages on which…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Gender Differences, Comparative Analysis, Test Wiseness

Smith, Malbert, III; And Others – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1979
Results of multiple-choice tests in educational psychology were examined to discover the effects on students' scores of changing their original answer choices after reconsideration. Eighty-six percent of the students changed one or more answers, and six out of seven students who made changes improved their scores by doing so. (Author/CTM)
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Difficulty Level, Error Patterns, Guessing (Tests)
Mathias, Haydn S. – Assessment in Higher Education, 1979
A university chemistry comprehensive final examination was analyzed to determine the extent to which it reflected the subject matter of the corresponding degree program. Although the various courses seemed adequately represented, the sampling of topics within a course tended to be low. The appropriateness of this form of assessment is discussed.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Chemistry, College Science, Course Objectives

Albanese, Mark A. – Journal of Medical Education, 1979
Results of a study involving pathology students suggest that there is significant cluing in multiple-true-false test questions that use secondary responses to represent combinations of the primary response (e.g., "Mark B if only 1 and 3 are correct"). Thus test scores are artificially inflated and test reliability is lowered. (JMD)
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Cues, Higher Education, Medical Education

Keeney, Martha A.; Snodgrass, Donna – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 2002
Lesson study helps teachers use collaborative peer insight and feedback about student responses to instruction to develop high quality lessons. Combining lesson study with collaborative action research, Ohio middle school teachers developed exemplar lessons in the four-column writing method and found that the method significantly improved…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Action Research, Constructed Response, Content Area Writing

Bruno, James E. – Journal of Research and Development in Education, 1989
This study examined multiple choice testing for formative and summative evaluation among sixth-grade inner-city students (N=568) who were assessed simultaneously, with forced choice and information based (confidence weighted) test scoring formats. Results are discussed, with emphasis on implications for teacher evaluation of low-achieving…
Descriptors: Confidence Testing, Forced Choice Technique, Formative Evaluation, Grade 6

Cawelti, Gordon – Educational Leadership, 2000
A turnaround school in Mission, Texas proves poverty and underachievement are not synonymous. The 1998 passing rate on state assessments was 90.7 percent, compared to 41.2 percent in 1993. Factors include committed faculty, a strong principal, extended reading practice and instructional time, incentives and recognition, and pre-assessment…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Attendance, Elementary Education, Hispanic Americans