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Peer reviewedCummings, Oliver W. – School Counselor, 1981
Describes interpretation technique for providing detailed feedback to students about their performance on the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills. Students summarize their own performance on each major skill. The practical aspects of understanding the full use of routinely collected data make the approach desirable. (Author)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Counseling Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Feedback
Peer reviewedCummings, Oliver W.; Hoover, H. D. – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 1985
Presents a comparative review of the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills--Mathematics and the Stanford Diagnostic Mathematics Test. Performance of fifth- and sixth-grade students (N=548) on the two batteries was also compared. Results indicated the two tests measure essentially the same mathematics skills. (JAC)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Comparative Analysis, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary School Students
Download full textFan, Xitao; Yin, Ping – 2001
The literature on measurement reliability shows the consensus that group heterogeneity with regard to the trait being measured is a factor that affects the sample measurement reliability, but the degree of such effect is not entirely clear. Sample performance also has the potential to affect measurement reliability because of its effect on the…
Descriptors: Error of Measurement, Measurement Techniques, Reliability, Sample Size
Direct linkCronin, John; Bowe, Branin – Northwest Evaluation Association, 2004
Each year, Nevada students in grades 3, 4, 5, and 7 participate in testing as part of the Nevada assessment program. Students in grades 3 and 5 take the Nevada Criterion Referenced Assessment (Nevada CRT) while students in grades 4 and 7 take the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS). These tests serve as an important measure of student achievement for…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Achievement Tests, Standardized Tests, Reading Achievement
FITZSIMMONS, STEPHEN J. – 1966
VARIOUS PERFORMANCE PATTERNS WERE STUDIED TO DETERMINE IF EARLY LIMITED FAILURE LEADS TO GENERALIZED FAILURE IN A NUMBER OF AREAS. THE SUBJECTS, 258 DISADVANTAGED URBAN CHILDREN FROM FOUR SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN IOWA, HAD ONE OR MORE SCORES ON THE IOWA TEST OF BASIC SKILLS (ITBS) AT OR BELOW THE 33D PERCENTILE ON NATIONAL NORMS. THEIR PERFORMANCES ON…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Disadvantaged Youth, Failure, Longitudinal Studies
Booker, Kevin; Gill, Brian; Zimmer, Ron; Sass, Tim R. – RAND Corporation, 2009
Over the past decade, charter schools have been among the fastest-growing segments of the K-12 education sector in Chicago and across the country. This report addresses several key issues related to charter schools using student-level data provided by Chicago Public Schools. Students leaving traditional public schools for charter schools in…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Urban Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Academic Achievement
Arizona State Dept. of Education, Phoenix. – 1987
April 1987 marked the seventh year of the statewide testing program in reading, language, and mathematics mandated by the Arizona State legislature. The Arizona testing program used nationally-standardized norm-referenced achievement tests. The Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITBS) were administered to students in grades 1 through 8, the Stanford…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade Equivalent Scores
Plake, Barbara S.; And Others – 1978
Three levels of the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills were studied to disclose the possible existence of sex bias in mathematics test items. Two mathematics tests (mathematical concepts and mathematics problem solving) and two comparison verbal tests (vocabulary and reading) were selected for analysis at three levels--grades 3, 6, and 8. Samples of 480…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Content Analysis, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics
Morton, David S.; And Others – 1977
This study addressed the question: Why do parochial school students in Rhode Island tend to perform better than public school students in relation to national norms on the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITBS)? Data for examination of school setting and population factors were collected from interviews with teachers and administrators, a short…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Differences
Cummings, Oliver W. – 1981
Three studies related to group interpretation of the subskills tested by the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITBS) were the focus of this project. These were the Impact Study, Teachers' Predictions of Student Performance on Subskills of Mathematics, and Relationships between the Results of ITBS. Mathematics Subtests and Stanford Diagnostic Mathematics…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Rating, Achievement Tests, Basic Skills
House, Gary D. – 1980
This paper analyzes data from three administrations (spring and fall 1977 and spring 1978) of reading and mathematics achievement tests across grades three through eight. The study asks two major questions: (1) how accurately are students identified for Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I services based upon the first test administration?;…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Compensatory Education, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics
Abedi, Jamal – 2001
Validity and reliability issues in standardized testing of students of limited English proficiency (LEP) were studied. Existing data from four different school sites were obtained for LEP and non-LEP students for three different standardized tests, the Stanford Achievement Tests (Ninth edition), the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills, and the Language…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Correlation, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language)
Howe, Quincy – Educational Horizons, 2006
In this article, the author relates how a math-assessment software has allowed his school to track the academic progress of its students. The author relates that in the first year that the software was deployed, schoolwide averages in terms of national standing on the math ITBS rose from the 42nd to 59th percentile. In addition, a significant…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Standardized Tests, Academic Achievement, Mathematics Achievement
Lucas, Maurice E.; Figlio, David N. – Education Next, 2004
With reports that some of the nation's finest universities have been handing out A's like lollipops at Halloween, the lowering of standards in higher education has become a hot topic. But grading standards in primary and secondary education have received remarkably less attention. There are two major questions related to grading standards. First,…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Boards of Education, Grade Inflation, Grading
PDF pending restorationOklahoma State Dept. of Education, Oklahoma City. – 1999
This report contains state and school district student testing results for the Oklahoma Testing Program for the 1998-99 school year. Several benchmarks are reported, including the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITBS), Oklahoma Core Curriculum Tests (OCCT), and American College Test Assessment (ACT) results. The National Assessment of Educational…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Benchmarking, Elementary Secondary Education
