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Peer reviewedEvans, Peter – English Quarterly, 1984
A response to the Minister of Education's announcement of provincewide testing in English and mathematics and a look at the tests thay may be used. (CRH)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Educational Assessment, English Instruction, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedDolinsky, Donna; Reid, Vincent E. – American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, 1984
Cognitive learning and cognitive measures are defined and various types of objective measures of cognitive learning are discussed and compared, including short answer test items, true-false items, multiple choice items, matching items, and written simulations. (MSE)
Descriptors: Cognitive Tests, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education, Measurement Techniques
Peer reviewedKappelman, Murray M. – Journal of Medical Education, 1983
Use and validity of externally-produced comprehensive examinations as instruments for promotion and as mechanisms for evaluating curriculum is discussed. Pros and cons of this single route to licensure and effects on student ethics are discussed. A national test bank is proposed as an alternative. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Certification, Curriculum Evaluation, Ethics, Higher Education
Peer reviewedImrie, Bradford W. – Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 1982
Evaluation of the final examination should be part of the course evaluation and should include student perceptions of the exam's nature and the questions' quality. The final examination experience of two groups of undergraduate and graduate students are considered. (MSE)
Descriptors: Course Evaluation, Higher Education, Student Attitudes, Student Evaluation
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
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 reviewedFields, Joyce I. – Early Child Development and Care, 1997
Evaluated five intelligence test instruments for use with Malaysian children: Raven's Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM), WISC-R, School Failure Tolerance (SFT), Scale for Rating Behavior Characteristics of Superior Students (SRBCSS), and Parent Checklists. Found that Raven's SPM was an effective screening test, and the WISC-R the best measure to…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Foreign Countries, Gifted, Intelligence Tests
Peer reviewedHunsaker, Scott L.; Callahan, Carolyn M. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 1995
Instruments used to measure creativity by 418 school districts as part of their identification procedures for gifted programs were studied. Results indicated that districts often select instruments for assessing creativity without attending to the definition of the construct. Creativity is often assessed in ways that may not be valid or reliable.…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Creativity, Creativity Tests, Definitions
Peer reviewedShull-Senn, Shannon; And Others – Psychology in the Schools, 1995
Examines the stability reliability for the Woodcock-Johnson-Revised (WJ-R) and the Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement with approximately a two-week retest interval. Results indicate that across grade levels, the Broad Reading Cluster for the WJ-R remained the same. Most correlations for the clusters for mathematics and written language were…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Grade 3
Peer reviewedElliot, Stephen N.; And Others – School Psychology Review, 1993
Reacts to previous article by McConaughy by reviewing many uses of rating scales in delivery of school psychological services, provides guidelines for selecting and using rating scales, examines Achenbach scales in some detail as way to illustrate points about usage and development, and concludes with discussion about advancements in development…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Psychological Evaluation
Direct linkWhitman, Glenn – History Teacher, 2003
In May 2001, students in the author's Advanced Placement (AP) United States History class were embroiled in a controversy surrounding the AP exam, in particular, having access to the exam's Document Based Question (DBQ) and free response portion prior to the test's administration. Prior to the exam, the College Board had provided a fifty-year time…
Descriptors: United States History, Standardized Tests, Advanced Placement Programs, Integrity
Download full textPetrowsky, Michael C. – 1997
In spring 1996, Arizona's Glendale Community College (GCC) undertook an evaluation of an introductory macroeconomics course using the national Test of Understanding in College Economics (TUCE III). Specifically, the study sought to determine how GCC student outcomes compared to national results on the TUCE III and if the college's macroeconomics…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Community Colleges, Course Evaluation, Macroeconomics
Petrowsky, Michael C. – 1997
In spring 1996, Arizona's Glendale Community College (GCC) undertook an evaluation of a microeconomics course using the national Test of Understanding in College Economics (TUCE III). Specifically, the study sought to determine how GCC student outcomes compared to national results on the TUCE III and if the microeconomics course made a statistical…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Community Colleges, Course Evaluation, Microeconomics
Busenbark, Lynn, Ed. – 1993
This resource book assists in selecting appropriate instruments to use in assessing preschool children suspected of having disabilities. For each of the 68 tests reviewed, the following information is provided: author, publisher, copyright date, price, purpose, description, range of children, testing time, scoring, examiner, standardization,…
Descriptors: Child Development, Diagnostic Tests, Disabilities, Disability Identification
National Association of Self-Instructional Language Programs. – 1983
These language testing guidelines--grouped according to the five categories of the oral language interview: grammar, comprehension, pronunciation, vocabulary, and language utilization (communicative competence)--are presented for the language proficiency examiner. Brief guidelines for assessment are given for each of five levels of proficiency,…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Language Proficiency, Language Tests, Programed Instruction
