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Peer reviewedGebhardt, Mary E. – Evaluation and the Health Professions, 1980
Health educators should learn qualitative evaluation methods such as observation, interviewing, fieldwork, and analysis of the political and social milieu. The traditional scientific method is questionable because it often fails to discover significant differences. (CP)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Needs, Health Education, Informal Assessment
Peer reviewedAskov, Eunice N.; Van Horn, Barbara L.; Carman, Priscilla S. – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 1997
Presents the purposes, strengths, and weaknesses of these assessment methods for adult basic education: standardized, criterion referenced, curriculum based, performance based, and informal. Discusses ways to establish a supportive assessment environment. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Alternative Assessment, Educational Assessment, Evaluation Methods
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
McGreevy, Ann M. – Pointer, 1986
Three types of informal assessment procedures (interest analysis, interviewing, and observation) are described as approaches to identifying areas of need in individualized programing for the gifted. (CL)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Gifted, Informal Assessment
Direct linkWhiston, Susan C.; Rahardja, Daryn – Journal of Career Assessment, 2005
Qualitative career assessments are theoretically based interventions that are grounded in constructivism. Constructivism is a departure from the traditional logical positive worldview that has influenced the development of many traditional career assessments. A central concept to constructivism is the importance of meaning, which can only be…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Career Counseling, Informal Assessment, Qualitative Research
Shermis, Mark D.; DiVesta, Francis J. – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2011
"Classroom Assessment in Action" clarifies the multi-faceted roles of measurement and assessment and their applications in a classroom setting. Comprehensive in scope, Shermis and Di Vesta explain basic measurement concepts and show students how to interpret the results of standardized tests. From these basic concepts, the authors then…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Standardized Tests, Scores, Measurement
PDF pending restorationSimpson, Richard L. – 1977
Reviewed are such techniques as classroom observation, using criteria for success in educational prescriptions, and plotting daily performance for evaluating the severely disturbed child. Included are such materials as a sample diagnostic test schedule, a paper on observation procedures, and graphs for recording behavior. (SBH)
Descriptors: Definitions, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Disturbances, Evaluation Methods
Schlagal, Robert Clark – Pointer, 1986
The paper stresses the importance of informal assessment of spelling, describing both quantitative and qualitative implications. Stages of word knowledge are reviewed and examples of student errors are cited to illustrate needed instruction. (CL)
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Error Patterns, Evaluation Methods
Barnes, William G. W. – Pointer, 1986
Stressing that reading assessment should occur while students read books and write stories, the author discusses informal assessment of readiness, fluency, phonics, and comprehension. Implications for instruction are noted. (CL)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Informal Assessment, Reading Diagnosis
Peer reviewedMuir, Sharon; Wells, Candace – Social Studies, 1983
Eighteen ways to informally evaluate cognitive objectives are discussed: grafitti walls; newspapers; card sorts; crossword puzzles; visualizing; debates; audio-visual narratives; ABC lists; concept trees; mini textbooks; incomplete charts; brainstorming; checking guides; logs and journals; drama; manipulative events; student-made tests; student…
Descriptors: Cognitive Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Informal Assessment
Peer reviewedClarke, Gerald M. – History and Social Science Teacher, 1980
Suggests that social studies teachers need help in matching curriculum objectives and evaluation procedures. Outlines an evaluation method in which teachers pretest students, continually assess the full range of social studies activities, and combine subjective and objective procedures. (Author/KC)
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Informal Assessment
Hogge, James H.; And Others – Evaluation Quarterly, 1979
This article presents a method for combining several descriptive indicators to yield an aggregated single summative index of the overall quality of the services received by clients in a service delivery system or program. The method described is based on the judgments of an evaluative panel. (Author/CTM)
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Informal Assessment
Peer reviewedKlein, Robert E.; And Others – Journal of Psychology, 1976
Establishes a relationship between the performance of children in Guatemala and in the United States on psychological tests and adults' informal judgments of their intelligence. (KS)
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods
Download full textApling, Richard; Bryk, Anthony – 1980
Prepared as part of a United Stated Education Department project on evaluation in early childhood Title I (ECT-I) programs, this is one of a series of resource books developed in response to concerns expressed by state and local personnel about early childhood Title I programs. By considering: (1) who will use the evaluation results; (2) what…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Evaluation Methods, Informal Assessment, Program Evaluation
Hasenstab, M. Suzanne – 1980
Various approaches to language assessment of the preschool child are reviewed, and the use of language sample analysis as part of a language assessment package is considered. The pros and cons of such approaches as checklists, screening tests, and language sample analysis are considered. Procedures for administering the language sample analysis…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Informal Assessment, Language Acquisition, Language Handicaps
