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Smith, Jeffrey K. – 1979
Educators are more interested in instruction and learning than in testing per se. If evaluation, the process of gathering information for instructional improvement, could be accomplished without the quantitative, formal processes of measurement and testing, there would be no need for them. Unfortunately, informal processes are more inefficient,…
Descriptors: Educational Testing, Elementary Secondary Education, Group Testing, Informal Assessment