ERIC Number: ED133976
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1975-Dec
Pages: 65
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Florida Statewide Assessment of Trainable Mentally Retarded: Technical Report 1975-76.
Beard, Jacob G.; Zammit, Stephen J.
Reported are results of the 1976 assessment program involving 1,742 trainable mentally retarded (TMR) students (10-14 years old) enrolled in Florida public schools. It is noted that the students were observed and rated by their teachers on a six-category scale (ranging from completed independently to physically unable) assessing their performance on 99 state-approved objective tasks (such as puts on socks, identifies objects to avoid, and writes name legibly). The document is divided into two parts. Part I includes descriptions of the development of the TMR assessment instrument, some characteristics of the instrument and tested population, some general results obtained from the testing, and implications of the audit results. Part II consists of tables on student performance by sex, age, level of retardation, and race; level of item mastery by type of school; duration of TMR enrollment; and frequency with which items were omitted from the test. Appended is a table on the frequencies in percent with which each of the six scale values were used for each item. (SBH)
Publication Type: Reports - Research
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Authoring Institution: Florida State Dept. of Education, Tallahassee. Bureau of Education for Exceptional Students.; Florida State Dept. of Education, Tallahassee. Div. of Public Schools.
Identifiers - Location: Florida
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