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Bredeson, Paul V. – 1983
This paper presents and discusses a conceptual model for understanding, describing, and explaining personnel selection processes and activities. Four theoretical strands--decision theory, impression formation, inference theory, and rating theory--are briefly discussed and woven together as the basis for the proposed model. The model is then used…
Descriptors: Administrators, Cognitive Processes, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education

Gable, Robert A.; And Others – Preventing School Failure, 1990
A framework is presented for applying error analysis of oral reading to decisions about placement and instruction. The focus is on assessment practices that rely on the stimulus material of daily instruction and that facilitate decision making on both what and how to teach reading. A case study illustrates application of the procedure. (JDD)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Decision Making, Diagnostic Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education
Nagasaki, Eizo; Becker, Jerry P. – 1993
In Japan, assessment in classroom teaching cannot be considered apart from classroom lessons. This paper describes typical mathematics classroom situations and some of the developments in classroom assessment underway in Japan. The first section of the paper discusses classroom teaching, including whole-class instruction, discussion, objectives,…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Informal Assessment
Taylor, Ronald L. – 2003
This text on the assessment of students with disabilities is divided into six major parts. Part 1, "Introduction to Assessment, Issues and Concerns," discusses the historical, philosophical, legal, practical and ethical bases of assessment and proposes an assessment model. Part 2, "Informal Procedures: Basic Tools for Teachers," includes chapters…
Descriptors: Ability, Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled)
Stenmark, Jean Kerr, Ed. – 1991
Recent documents like the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics'"Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics" have described coming changes in the mathematics curriculum and evaluation. Operating from the point of view that instruction and assessment are closely linked, that good teachers constantly assess students…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Techniques, Educational Change, Educational Innovation
Nashashibi, Pauline – 2002
This document explores the United Kingdom's developing practice of recognizing adult students' achievement in ways that make flexible use of the learning outcomes methodology, provide a mix of accredited and non-credited work, and are sensitive to the ethos of adult learning. (That ethos is often characterized by adult students' desire for…
Descriptors: Achievement, Achievement Rating, Adult Education, Adult Educators