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Direct linkStephen G. Sireci; Javier Suárez-Álvarez; April L. Zenisky; Maria Elena Oliveri – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2024
The goal in personalized assessment is to best fit the needs of each individual test taker, given the assessment purposes. Design-in-Real-Time (DIRTy) assessment reflects the progressive evolution in testing from a single test, to an adaptive test, to an adaptive assessment "system." In this article, we lay the foundation for DIRTy…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Student Needs, Test Format, Test Construction
Kellar, Mark; James, Waynne B. – Adult Literacy and Basic Education, 1978
Informal assessment techniques are adaptable to local adult basic education needs, relatively free of anxiety-producing format, effective time utilizers, and immediately interpretable by teacher/student. Presents assessment examples: student selected materials, Verbal Picture Analysis, graded paragraphs, Cloze Procedure, sentence completion,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Students, Guidelines, Informal Assessment
Peer reviewedSimosko, Susan – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1988
Recognizing adults' prior college-level learning requires a substantial investment of faculty time to identify learning outcomes and standards of performance, but the benefits are great for students and faculty alike. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Adult Students, College Credits, Equivalency Tests
Cervero, Ronald – Adult Literacy and Basic Education, 1979
This study sought to discover the relationship between Adult Performance Level (APL) Survey scores and General Educational Development test scores. In Cook County, Illinois, 269 students were examined on both tests; scores were found to be correlated. Author discusses the need for both approaches. (Author/CSS)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Comparative Analysis, Competency Based Education
