A Scale for Measuring Achievement in General Science

Dvorak, August

doi:10.1111/j.1949-8594.1928.tb00538.x

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“…A general science test consisting of two forms has been carefully devised and standardized by Powers (76). Another noteworthy test in the same subject has been constructed by Dvorak (21). Pieper and Beauchamp (72) have constructed tests to accompany a certain textbook in science.…”

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Educational tests.

Jones¹

1929

Psychological Bulletin

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I. General. Three general textbooks dealing with educational measurements have appeared during the past year. Smith and Wright (95) have presented a careful treatment of various educational tests in light of important objectives in the subjects measured. The emphasis in the book is placed upon the outcomes which the test purports to measure rather than upon mathematical reliability. Selected tests for various subjects in the elementary and secondary school are described. Fenton and Worcester ( 27) have written a small book in which certain of the more elementary facts of measurement are given in a simple and very readable form. A revised edition of the textbook by Wilson and Hoke (116) has appeared. Many important changes and additions have been made. A comparison of the original edition, copyrighted in 1920, with the 1928 revision affords an interesting study in the developments in educational measurements during the past eight years.In addition to the general textbooks mentioned above, attention should be called to a workbook in educational measurements by Greene (34). The book presents forty-five problems which would ordinarily be encountered in measurement. Suggestions are given in connection with the methods of solving such problem, and in most cases practice in actual computation is provided for. Mention should also be made of the brief discussion of achievement tests in the book by Levine and Marks (57) on the general problems of testing among normal and abnormal subjects.Toops (109) looks over the general field of measurement and notes twenty-four changes which he thinks will take place in connection with the development of measuring instruments. Thorndike (106) says that tests will be made more accurate, will be arranged in a more convenient form for giving and scoring, and will be made more comprehensive in the measuring of desirable outcomes.

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