Date of Award

1987

Type

Thesis

Major

Specialist in Education

Degree Type

Specialist Degree in Education

Department

Teacher Education

First Advisor

Dr. Carolyn M. Cartledge

Second Advisor

Dr. D. Glenn Walls

Third Advisor

Dr. Polly Adams

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to determine if the Metropolitan Readiness Tests (MRT) is a better predictor of first grade achievement than is the California Achievement Tests (CAT). The subjects were 400 representatively selected students from 10 of 38 elementary schools operating in a public school system in the Southeast. MRT scores for 1985 were collected for 200 kindergarten students, and CAT scores for 1986 were collected for 200 kindergarten students. These tests were administered to small groups of kindergarteners in the spring of each year by the regular classroom teachers. The children participated in the regular classroom curriculum and no treatment was administered to the subjects of this study. First grade Stanford Achievement Tests (SAT) scores for 1986 were collected on each of the 200 subjects who took the 1985 MRT. First grade Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITBS) scores for 1987 were collected on each of the 200 kindergarteners who took the 1986 CAT. After computation of the respective Pearson product moment correlation coefficients, it was found that there is no significant difference between the MRT and the CAT as predictors of first grade achievement.

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