Document Type
Thesis
Date of Degree Completion
Summer 1972
Degree Name
Master of Education (MEd)
Department
School Psychology
Committee Chair
Wells A. McInelly
Second Committee Member
Frank Nelson
Third Committee Member
Orval E. Putoff
Abstract
This paper presents the use of an expectancy table, based on a pilot study using the DAT Sentence Subtest and Middle School Grade Point Average, to place students in the various English tracks at Sehome High School. Sixty students were placed in accordance with the English grade predictions of the expectancy tables and sixty were placed in accordance with middle school teacher-counselor recommendations. Significantly more students were placed correctly when the expectancy tables were used.
Recommendations include the administration of the DAT early enough in the eight grade year to make the results useful in English placement upon entry into high school and that further studies should be made to determine the usefulness of this same test in tracking for mathematics and science.
Recommended Citation
Strand, Elizabeth Mae, "An Experimental Study in the Use of the Differential Aptitude Test to Assign Sehome High School Students to Various English Tracks" (1972). All Master's Theses. 2019.
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/etd/2019
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