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Smith, Corinne Roth – 1985
A multidimensional approach to assessment of children with learning difficulties is examined. The approach explores factors along five dimensions: (1) learner characteristics (motivation, social-emotional maturity, cognitive abilities and styles); (2) task-based contributors (match of tasks to maturational levels and to cognitive style); (3)…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Informal Assessment, Learning Disabilities
Download full textVan Nagel, Clint – 1977
Described is a diagnostic-prescriptive model for teacher observation of learning disabled students. It is explained that through observation, teachers should be able to answer questions in seven areas, including the existence of a real learning disability; the student's functioning level in reading, arithmetic, and writing; the student's learning…
Descriptors: Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Secondary Education, Informal Assessment, Learning Disabilities
Homeratha, Linda; And Others – 1978
The report presents a screening and identification model for use with primary children to identify giftedness. The procedure is designed to be objective and employs multiple selection criteria. The Bayesian approach is used as it applies a probability methodology. The steps in instrument development include, among others, a review of the relevant…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Educational Diagnosis, Gifted, Identification
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
Raban, Bridie – 1991
Assessment in the National Curriculum in England and Wales is an example of a different model. The report of the government-appointed working group on assessment, Task Group on Assessment and Testing (1988), states that assessment: (1) is an integral part of both teaching and learning; (2) should not determine what is to be taught and learned; and…
Descriptors: British National Curriculum, Educational Testing, Elementary Secondary Education, English Curriculum
Long, Kathleen M. – 1991
An instructor in a junior high school English program which involved teaching approximately 160 eighth graders on a daily basis found it almost impossible to assess students fairly by taking individual differences into account when grading. Her solution was to invite students to participate in the construction, performance, and evaluation of their…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Practices, Evaluation Methods, Formative Evaluation
