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Colton, Dean A.; Gao, Xiaohong; Harris, Deborah J.; Kolen, Michael J.; Martinovich-Barhite, Dara; Wang, Tianyou; Welch, Catherine J. – 1997
This collection consists of six papers, each dealing with some aspects of reliability and performance testing. Each paper has an abstract, and each contains its own references. Papers include: (1) "Using Reliabilities To Make Decisions" (Deborah J. Harris); (2) "Conditional Standard Errors, Reliability, and Decision Consistency…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Error of Measurement, Item Response Theory, Performance Based Assessment
Morreale, Sherwyn P.; And Others – 1991
This collection contains four papers that were presented as part of a short course delivered at the 1991 annual meeting of the Speech Communication Association. The papers discuss various aspects of the development and use of "The Competent Speaker," a public speaking assessment instrument designed for the college sophomore level. The papers and…
Descriptors: College Sophomores, Communication Skills, Higher Education, Models
Copley, Lisa D.; Meehan, Merrill L.; Howley, Caitlin W.; Hughes, Georgia K. – Appalachia Educational Laboratory at Edvantia (NJ1), 2005
The major purpose of the second field test of the AEL MSCI instrument was to assess the psychometric properties of the refined version with a larger, more diverse group of respondents. The first objective of this field test was to expand the four-point Likert-type response scale to six points in order to yield more variance in responses. The…
Descriptors: Field Tests, Educational Improvement, Evaluation Methods, Teachers
2000
This document contains three papers from a symposium on increasing job satisfaction that was conducted as part of a conference on human resource development (HRD). "A Systematic Model of Job Design by Examining the Organizational Factors Affecting Satisfaction" (Zhichao Cheng, Danyang Yang, Fenglou Liu) reports on a project in which…
Descriptors: Administrators, Attitude Change, Career Choice, Career Planning