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Modern Psychometric Methodology: Applications of Item Response Theory
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Reid, Christine A.; Kolakowsky-Hayner, Stephanie A.; Lewis, Allen N.; Armstrong, Amy J. – Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, 2007
Item response theory (IRT) methodology is introduced as a tool for improving assessment instruments used with people who have disabilities. Need for this approach in rehabilitation is emphasized; differences between IRT and classical test theory are clarified. Concepts essential to understanding IRT are defined, necessary data assumptions are…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Methods, Item Response Theory, Aptitude Tests
Vocational Evaluation of Handicapped College Students: Hearing, Motor and Visually Impaired. A Testing Manual.
Schmelter-Davis, Lynne – 1984
This manual was developed to provide as complete a list as possible of vocational evaluation measures currently used by college professionals that can be appropriately used with hearing-, sight-, or motor-impaired college students, as well as with normal students. Specific modifications and/or adaptations are described. The major criterion used in…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Career Planning, College Students, Disabilities
Automobile Mechanic Assistant Work Sample.
Shawsheen Valley Regional Vocational-Technical High School, Billerica, MA. – 1979
This manual contains a work sample intended to assess a handicapped student's interest in and potential to pass sucessfully a training program in automotive mechanics or in a similar automotive job. Section 1 describes the assessment, correlates the work performed and worker traits required for completing the work sample, and lists related…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Auto Mechanics, Disabilities, Job Performance
Automotive Work Sample.
Shawsheen Valley Regional Vocational-Technical High School, Billerica, MA. – 1979
This manual contains a work sample intended to assess a handicapped student's interest in and potential to pass successfully a training program in automotive mechanics or in a similar automotive job. Section 1 describes the assessment, correlates the work performed and worker traits required for completing the work sample, and lists related…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Auto Mechanics, Disabilities, Job Performance
Bagger Work Sample.
Shawsheen Valley Regional Vocational-Technical High School, Billerica, MA. – 1979
This manual contains a work sample intended to assess a handicapped student's interest in and to screen interested students into a training program in Distributive Education I. (The course is based on the entry level of a bagger job.) Section 1 describes the assessment, correlates the work performed and worker traits required for completing the…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Disabilities, Distributive Education, Job Performance
Finger Dexterity Work Sample.
Shawsheen Valley Regional Vocational-Technical High School, Billerica, MA. – 1979
This manual contains a work sample intended to assess a handicapped student's ability to move the fingers and manipulate small objects with the fingers, rapidly and accurately. Section 1 describes the assessment and lists related occupations and DOT codes. Instructions to the evaluator are provided in the next section. The conditions and…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Disabilities, Job Performance, Job Skills
Manual Dexterity Work Sample.
Shawsheen Valley Regional Vocational-Technical High School, Billerica, MA. – 1979
This manual contains a work sample intended to assess a handicapped student's ability to move the hands easily and skillfully and the ability to move the hands in placing and turning motions. Section 1 describes the assessment and lists related occupations and DOT codes. Instructions to the evaluator are provided in the next section. The…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Disabilities, Job Performance, Job Skills
Small Parts Assembler Work Sample.
Shawsheen Valley Regional Vocational-Technical High School, Billerica, MA. – 1979
This manual contains a work sample intended to assess a handicapped student's interest in and potential to enter a training program in small parts assembly or in a similar job. Section 1 describes the assessment, correlates the work performed and worker traits required for completing the work sample, and lists related occupations and DOT codes.…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Assembly (Manufacturing), Disabilities, Job Performance
Drafting Work Sample.
Shawsheen Valley Regional Vocational-Technical High School, Billerica, MA. – 1979
This manual contains a work sample intended to assess a handicapped student's interest in and to screen interested students into a training program in basic mechanical drawing. (The course is based on the entry level of an assistant drafter.) Section 1 describes the assessment, correlates the work performed and worker traits required for…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Disabilities, Drafting, Engineering Drawing
Electrical Wiring Work Sample.
Shawsheen Valley Regional Vocational-Technical High School, Billerica, MA. – 1979
This manual contains a work sample intended to screen handicapped students' interest in and to screen interested students into a training program in basic electricity. (The course is based on the entry level of an electrician helper.) Section 1 describes the assessment, correlates the work performed and worker traits required for completing the…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Disabilities, Electricians, Electricity
Electronics Assembly Work Sample.
Shawsheen Valley Regional Vocational-Technical High School, Billerica, MA. – 1979
This manual contains a work sample intended to assess a handicapped student's interest in and potential to enter a training program in electronics assembly or in a similar program. Section 1 describes the assessment, correlates the work performed and worker traits required for completing the work sample, and lists related occupations and DOT…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Assembly (Manufacturing), Disabilities, Electronics
Clerical Machine Operator Work Sample.
Shawsheen Valley Regional Vocational-Technical High School, Billerica, MA. – 1979
This manual contains a work sample intended to assess a handicapped student's interest in and potential to successfully pass a clerical business machine course (typing) in a comprehensive or vocational school. Section 1 describes the assessment, correlates the work performed and worker traits required for completing the work sample, and lists…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Clerical Occupations, Clerical Workers, Disabilities
Color Discrimination Work Sample.
Shawsheen Valley Regional Vocational-Technical High School, Billerica, MA. – 1979
This manual contains a work sample intended to assess a handicapped student's ability to see likenesses or differences in colors or shades, identifying or matching certain colors, and selecting colors that go together. Section 1 describes the assessment and lists related occupations and DOT codes. Instructions to the evaluator are provided in the…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Color, Disabilities, Industrial Arts
Drill Press Work Sample.
Shawsheen Valley Regional Vocational-Technical High School, Billerica, MA. – 1979
This manual contains a work sample intended to assess a handicapped student's interest in and to screen interested students into a training program in basic machine shop I. (The course is based on the entry level of the drill press operator.) Section 1 describes the assessment, correlates the work performed and worker traits required for…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Disabilities, Job Performance, Job Skills