Will Out-of Level Norm-Referenced Testing Improve the Selection of Program Participants and the Diagnosis of Reading Comprehension in ESEA Title I Programs? [microform] / Helen B. Slaughter and Edwin J. Gallas
- Bib ID:
- 5351411
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Slaughter, Helen B
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED155213
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- Description:
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- [Washington, D.C.]] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1978
- 26 p.
- Summary:
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Concern was expressed for the possible effects of testing Elementary Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Title I students with norm-referenced tests that may be so difficult that many students will have scores in the chance range. The likelihood of such students obtaining equal scaled scores if they were tested with easier out-of-level tests was discussed. In this study, two groups of sixth grade students were each tested with two levels of the California Achievement Test. One group took Level 16, on-level, and Level 15, an out-of-level test, while the other group took Level 16 and Level 14. The results are presented in tables. The author concludes that out-of-level testing of low achievers is, at best, a limited solution or stopgap measure to the pressing instrumentation problems in Title I evaluation. (CTM)
- Notes:
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- ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (62nd, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, March 27-31, 1978); For related documents, see TM 007 212 and 215.
- Educational level discussed: Grade 6.
- Educational level discussed: Intermediate Grades.
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- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
- Subject:
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- Achievement Tests
- Comparative Testing
- Disadvantaged Youth
- Equated Scores
- Grade Equivalent Scores
- Grade 6
- Intermediate Grades
- Low Achievement
- Norm Referenced Tests
- Norms
- Raw Scores
- Reading Achievement
- Reading Difficulty
- Scores
- Standardized Tests
- Test Bias
- Test Interpretation
- Test Reliability
- Testing
- Testing Problems
- Out of Level Testing
- California Achievement Tests Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I
- Other authors/contributors:
- Gallas, Edwin J, author
- Available From:
- ERIC
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 1978
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