A comparison of the peabody individual achievement test,the metropolitan achievement test,and the otis-lennon mental ability test

In order to clarify the concurrent validity of the Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT) and the Metropolitan Achievement Test (MAT), product-moment correlations were computed for all subscores and total scores for 26 normal-range public school third-grade girls and boys. The reading comprehension subtests correlated.81, spelling.88, and PIAT Mathematics with MAT Total Math.64. Correlations were computed for the Otis-Lennon Mental Ability Test and the PIAT General Information subtest as.77, and the Otis-Lennon and the PIAT Total Test scores as.79. Concurrent validity of the PIAT with both tests is tentatively considered adequate except in the area of mathematics, in which the PIAT, relative to the MAT, appears to be reflecting ability to handle math concepts (.68) more accurately than math computation (.41) or math problem solving (.56). Correlations with IQ partialed out suggest the PIAT Total Test, and PIAT and MAT reading and spelling measures, are relatively uninfluenced by IQ variations, whereas with IQ held constant, the weak positive correlations between the PIAT and MAT math subtests became essentially random relationships.     

Predicting self-efficacy in test preparation: Gender,value, anxiety,test performance,and strategies

Considerable evidence indicates that self-efficacy, task value, anxiety, and the use of language learning strategies are related. However, there is currently an insufficient understanding about their relations in high-stakes testing contexts. The author aimed to investigate how well social factors, test value, anxiety, test performance, and learning strategies predict high school students' self-efficacy in preparing for the English listening test as part of the University Entrance Examination in Taiwan. This research involved a large-scale questionnaire survey and a collection of students' English test scores. The participants were 636 students in Grade 12 of high school in Taiwan. A quantitative analysis of the questionnaire was conducted via hierarchical regression analysis. The results show that students' recent English test performance and test anxiety were two strong predictors of self-efficacy in preparing for the high-stakes test. In addition, resource management and metacognitive listening strategies had better predictive power over prior English level and test value.     

Test anxiety, perceived test difficulty, and test performance: temporal patterns of their effects

Two hypothesized models that represent relationships among test anxiety, perceived test difficulty, and test performance observed immediately before and after a final examination were tested. The structural equation modeling was used to examine the hypothesized relationships by imposing the structure of direct and indirect effects on the current data collected from 208 undergraduate students. Students' perception of test difficulty had a significant effect on the arousal of both worry and emotionality. Temporal changes were observed in the degrees of these relationships; while test difficulty perceived before and during the exam both had effects on test anxiety perceived at each corresponding time, students' perception of test difficulty during the exam had a greater direct effect on the arousal of test anxiety than did test difficulty perceived before the exam. Worry, but not emotionality, had a strong inverse relationship with performance. That perceived test difficulty did not have a direct effect on test performance, but had an indirect effect mediated by worry, indicates that test performance was not directly influenced by how they perceive the test difficulty, but worry aroused by the difficulty perception influenced their performance. Importance of understanding students' perceived test difficulty was discussed for its effect on arousing worry anxiety.     

从食品安全的角度看食品企业检验人才的培养

随着我国经济和社会的飞速发展,我国的食品安全事故频频发生,不仅给食品企业带来了巨大的经济损失,而且严重打击了消费者的信心,食品安全问题已经越来越受到社会各界的重视。文章分析当前食品安全的现状,以及从企业的角度加强食品安全检验的重要意义,同时分析了校企合作背景下食品企业进行检验人才培养的可行性,总结了加强校企合作食品企业检验人才培养的策略。从食品安全的角度研究食品企业检验人才的培养,可以为食品企业检验人才的培养提供一些借鉴。     

Positive reframing and the test performance of test anxious children

The present study tested whether the paradoxical technique of positive reframing, presented in the form of test instructions, could be used to reduce the cognitive experience of worry and thereby improve the arithmetic test performance of highly test anxious third-and fourth-grade children. Thirty high test anxious and thirty low test anxious children were assigned randomly to receive one of three types of instructions prior to taking an arithmetic word problem test: neutral instructions, reassuring instructions, and positive-reframing instructions, which encouraged the children to view worry as a positive attribute. The results indicated that the type of instructions given had no significant effect upon subsequent test performance. However, both high and low test anxious children who received positive reframing scored significantly higher on a state anxiety measure given post test. These findings suggest that, although positive reframing may have an emotional impact, it is ineffective in improving the arithmetic test performance of highly test anxious children.     

命题管理流程的科学化、规范化和最优化研究

建设人力资源强国,实施优秀人才选拔战略需要提升大规模教育考试的综合管理水平和技术含量。命题作为大规模教育考试的核心环节,要注重命题管理流程的科学化、规范化和最优化研究。本文首先阐明命题管理流程科学化、规范化和最优化的概念,分析了它们之间的关系,特别指明它们与信息化之间的关系。然后,讨论了对命题管理流程进行科学化、规范化及优化的技术方法,并以自学考试命题管理流程为实例,对其进行了科学化、规范化和优化研究。     

三道2009年山东高考生物学试题的分析及相关教学建议

本文对2009年山东理综生物学三道选择题的命题立意和解题思路进行了分析,并提出了相关教学建议。     

英语专八短文改错题型的测试学效度研究

本文采用定量研究来分析2006年到2013年近八年的英语专八短文改错题型的效度。统计表明专八短文改错题有一定的表面效度,但是因为它的题型大部分停留在语法词汇层面的考查上,而语义的辨识和语境理解考查还欠缺,因此,短文内容效度不高,没有充分发挥一篇完整短文的作用。     

Structural relationship between learners’ perceptions of a test,learning practices,and learning outcomes: A study on the washback mechanism of a high-stakes test

The study aimed to explore the washback mechanism on learning by investigating the structural relationship between learners’ perceptions of a test, learning practices, and learning outcomes via structural equation modeling. The participants in this study included 3105 Chinese senior high school students. Exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, and structural equation modeling were used in the analyses of the data. This study found that learners’ perceptions of test validity, impact, and importance affected their learning practices in different ways and to different degrees. The research results also showed that four types of English learning practices had significant, positive, but differential effects on learning outcomes. The effect size was partly associated with the frequency of engagement with each learning practice. Based on the findings, some implications and suggestions were drawn for learners, teachers, test designers, and test authorities.     

A comparison of the Kaufman brief intelligence test (K-BIT) with the Stanford-Binet,a two-subtest short form,and the Kaufman test of educational achievement (K-TEA) brief form

The relationship between the K-BIT, the Stanford-Binet, a two-subtest short form, and the K-TEA was examined with a population of 75 academically referred students. The K-BIT correlated significantly with the Stanford-Binet (.81) and the K-TEA Math (.57), Reading (.58), and Spelling (.47) scores. The mean K-BIT IQ Composite (76.5) averaged 5.1 points lower than the mean Stanford-Binet Test Composite (81.6). The results tend to support the use of the K-BIT as a screening instrument when the Stanford-Binet is the follow-up or comprehensive measure of intelligence.     

Validating test score meaning and defending test score use: different aims,different methods

Advances in validity theory and alacrity in validation practice have suffered because the term validity has been used to refer to two incompatible concerns: (1) the degree of support for specified interpretations of test scores (i.e. intended score meaning) and (2) the degree of support for specified applications (i.e. intended test uses). This article provides a brief summary of current validity theory, explication of a critical flaw in the current conceptualisation of validity, and a framework that both accommodates and differentiates validation of test score inferences and justification of test use.     

Race differences on the developmental test of Visual Motor Integration,the Slosson Intelligence Test,and the ABC Inventory

Preschoolers' scores on the Developmental Test of Visual Motor Integration (VMI), the Slosson Intelligence Test (SIT), and the ABC Inventory (ABCI) were analyzed for race and sex differences. Separate ANOVAs revealed no race effect on the VMI, whereas race differences favoring whites were found for the SIT and ABCI. There were no effects for sex on any measure, nor were there any interactions. Results are discussed in terms of the inconsistent findings for race effects in the perceptual-motor literature.     

基于书版格式的题库管理及组卷系统的制作

目前大多数题库系统都是Word格式,实际上这有两个弊端:一是不能同步印刷厂的排版操作过程,绝大多数印刷厂均使用方正书版系统,二是Word生成的试卷不美观,不能实现psp的发排过程。该文从实用角度出发,指出了能够完全同步印刷出版行业的标准需要的题库平台制作关键,借助该平台就可以实现多学科试题库的建立及组卷系统的完成。     

Learning the class test

European Journal of Psychology of Education - The class test is one of the important school practices which construct and convey to the pupils the predominant conception of ability and the related...     

The validity of the otis-lennon mental ability test,elementary II level,for suspected mental retardates

Using Otis-Lennon Mental Ability Test, Elementary II Level, and WISC verbal, Performance and Full Scale IQs of 40 white children, correlations of.71,.57 and.73, respectively, were computed. The results suggest that IQs on the Otis-Lennon are not directly comparable to the WISC IQs and should be interpreted with caution when used as a criterion for identifying mentally retarded white children attending public schools.     

Raven's test performance of sub-Saharan Africans: Average performance,psychometric properties,and the Flynn Effect

This paper presents a systematic review of published data on the performance of sub-Saharan Africans on Raven's Progressive Matrices. The specific goals were to estimate the average level of performance, to study the Flynn Effect in African samples, and to examine the psychometric meaning of Raven's test scores as measures of general intelligence. Convergent validity of the Raven's tests is found to be relatively poor, although reliability and predictive validity are comparable to western samples. Factor analyses indicate that the Raven's tests are relatively weak indicators of general intelligence among Africans, and often measure additional factors, besides general intelligence. The degree to which Raven's scores of Africans reflect levels of general intelligence is unknown. Average IQ of Africans is approximately 80 when compared to US norms. Raven's scores among African adults have shown secular increases over the years. It is concluded that the Flynn Effect has yet to take hold in sub-Saharan Africa.