Validation of Lea Mathematics Achievement Test in Pakistan a Pilot Study

The present study was undertaken to validate a portion of Inter­ national Association for Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) Mathematics Achievement Test in Pakistan, The items of the test were matched with the curriculum applied in schools. A set of relevant items were translated into Urdu and administered to an ad-hoc sample of 75 female students of grades 6 to 10. The results showed-that the mean scores of the students increased with their respective grades and the test generally differentiated between the students of various grades. The indices of cor­relation between marks in school examinations and IEA test were generally positive though low; only five out of twenty correlations reached signifi­cance levels. These results can be taken as an indication of the validity of this test for Pakistani female students