Date of Award
5-1938
Document Type
Undergraduate Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Degree Discipline
Arts and Science
Abstract
The testing program in English at Prairie View College has been carried on regularly over a period of nine years. It has consisted of the giving of entrance placement tests on the basis of which the department tried to section students according to ability levels. For the most part commercial standardized achievement tests, chiefly the Barrette- Byan, have been used. About six years ago members of Department constructed a placement test in an attempt to set up its own standards for placement and promotion. In 1937 an altogether new and more satisfactory test was devised. The department plans to issue a new form of the test each year. Already a second form of this test has been devised. In September 1937 form I of the test was given to entering freshmen at Prairie View College. The same group took the teat again in February. (A partial report on the results of this test is included in this study.) Purpose: The purpose of this thesis was to administer form I of the new Prairie View English Placement Test to senior high school stud onto of the State in order to help establish norms for the test.
Committee Chair/Advisor
Earl L. Sasser
Committee Member
N.T Archer
Committee Member
N.T Archer
Publisher
Prairie View State Normal And Industrial College
Rights
© 2021 Prairie View A & M University
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Date of Digitization
9/19/2021
Contributing Institution
John B Coleman Library
City of Publication
Prairie View
MIME Type
Application/PDF
Recommended Citation
Shields, L. A. (1938). A Study Of The Prairie View English Placement Test 1937-38. Retrieved from https://digitalcommons.pvamu.edu/pvamu-theses/275