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Training Officer, 1978
Describes steps in trainability test administration: (1) teaching applicant essential job elements, (2) having applicant perform job tasks unaided, and (3) evaluating the performance. Discusses test selection, availability, and effectiveness. (CSS)
Descriptors: Employment Qualifications, Evaluation Methods, Guidelines, Job Applicants
Green, Bert F.; And Others – 1982
The United States Armed Services are planning to introduce computerized adaptive testing (CAT) into the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB), which is a major part of the present personnel assessment procedures. Adaptive testing will improve efficiency greatly by assessing each candidate's answers as the test progresses and posing…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Armed Forces, Computer Assisted Testing, Evaluation Methods
Revell, W. Grant, Jr.; Wehman, Paul – Rehabilitation Literature, 1978
Described are vocation evaluation and training issues and practices that currently affect the delivery of vocational rehabilitation services to severely and profoundly retarded individuals. (BD)
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Development, Career Guidance, Employment Counselors
Peer reviewedKaplan, Stanley – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1977
Described is a diagnostic instrument to evaluate basic occupational skills and attitudes of educable mentally retarded students in a work-study program. (CL)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Evaluation Methods, Job Skills, Mental Retardation
Download full textBurden, Paul R. – 1982
Preservice teachers could conduct indepth interviews with one or more experienced teachers during the undergraduate program to obtain realistic information about the first year of teaching and the personal and professional changes teachers undergo as they continue to teach. This information would be useful to the preservice teachers in confirming…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Career Choice, Decision Making, Education Majors
Hemphill, Norma Jean – 1980
The inservice package for assessment team members is designed to provide skill training regarding the vocational assessment process used with special needs students. Activities within the inservice training package sensitize individuals to the purposes of infusing vocational assessment into the educational curriculum, and provide instruction on…
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Data Collection, Evaluation Methods, Inservice Education
Honsberger, Treva; Shelley, Mark – 1976
This project's goal was the placement of diversely handicapped students at the secondary level in suitable vocational programs which would lead to eventual employment. The technique employed to discover the aptitudes of these special students was work sampling, which is a vocational evaluation procedure utilizing "hands on" experiences,…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Career Development, Evaluation Methods, Handicapped Students
Peer reviewedBrowning, Phillip; Irvin, Larry K. – Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin, 1981
A review of research on vocational rehabilitation of the mentally retarded shows that many programs have been successful in placing clients. Evaluation methods are reviewed and vocational training methods in different states are described. Research shows that relevant evaluation, training, and placement can succeed. (JAC)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Job Placement, Job Training, Literature Reviews
PDF pending restorationLombard, Richard C. – Office of Special Populations Brief, 1994
Research has shown that successful school-to-work transitional planning must be linked to good vocational assessment. A study of the type and extent of formal vocational assessments being conducted by educators within secondary schools in Wisconsin showed that 77 percent assessed occupational interests, 63 percent assessed vocational aptitudes,…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Individualized Education Programs, Models, Postsecondary Education
Sitlington, Patricia L. – 1988
An overview is provided of the career/vocational assessment process as applied to individuals with mental disabilities. Types of information that need to be gathered can be grouped into seven basic categories: medical; functional academic skills; interests and environmental preferences; interpersonal skills; work habits and attitudes; learning…
Descriptors: Career Development, Data Collection, Educational Practices, Evaluation Methods
Kokaska, Charles J., Ed. – 1981
The document contains 10 papers on assessment in the career development of the handicapped, and is one of three volumes of selected papers presented at a November 1981, international conference on the career development of handicapped individuals. Part I contains four papers presented in a special session on assessment issues, and Part 2 contains…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Guidance, Disabilities, Emotional Disturbances
Harlan, Anne; And Others – 1980
One of seven sections of a report that examines the assessment of occupational competence, this chapter presents competence assessment as it is defined in practice by selection techniques currently used by employers. The chapter begins with a discussion of the major techniques used in employee selection, focusing on the competencies employers…
Descriptors: Adults, Competence, Employment Qualifications, Evaluation Methods
Peterson, Michael – 1982
This paper provides a summary of thoughts, resources, ideas, and a review of the state-of-the-art provisions of vocational assessment services for the visually impaired. The paper is organized in seven sections. The first section provides definitions of vocational assessment and the related terms of career assessment, educational/psychological…
Descriptors: Adults, Diagnostic Tests, Educational Resources, Evaluation Criteria
District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, DC. Dept. of Research and Evaluation. – 1978
The methods and instruments used for the appraisal of teachers' performances in the classroom are outlined in this booklet. Four major considerations of this evaluation process are discussed in the introduction: (1) rationale for a process of appraisal; (2) definition of the appraisal process; (3) description of the appraisal process; and (4)…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Classroom Environment, Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Techniques
Fugill, John W. K. – 1973
The feasibility of inferring relative task difficulty values and relative task aptitude requirements for a variety of tasks in the General and Administrative work areas is discussed. It was established that there was a high positive relationship between relative task difficulty values, as designated by work supervisors, and the corresponding…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Aptitude Tests, Career Education, Career Ladders
