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Mathews, Donald K. – 1978
Concepts of measurement in physical education are presented in this college-level text to enable the preservice physical education major to develop skills in determining pupil status, designing effective physical activity programs, and measuring student progress. Emphasis is placed upon discussion of essential statistical methods, test…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Knowledge Level, Measurement Techniques, Motor Development
Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ., Reston. – 1980
To improve Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) participant assessment systems in Virginia, a project identified assessment systems and techniques/tools used by prime sponsors and developed an assessment model. It also identified key personnel of educational institutions in the prime sponsor area. A mail survey was followed by on-site…
Descriptors: Educational Cooperation, Employment Programs, Evaluation Methods, Federal Legislation
Download full textMassad, Carolyn Emrick, Ed. – 1977
This Resource Notebook is designed to help New Jersey school districts implement the state's Public School Education Act of 1975 which mandates a thorough and efficient (T & E) system of free public schools. The notebook is divided into three parts. Part I, the user's guide, discusses the purpose of data-based decision making, specifically…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives, Efficiency
Michigan State Dept. of Education, Lansing. – 1976
It is required by Michigan Public Act 294 that local school districts having an enrollment of 20 or more students of limited English-speaking ability establish and operate bilingual instruction programs, and that the State Board of Education approve a testing mechanism suitable for evaluating the proficiency in English language skills of students…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Administrator Guides, Bibliographies, Bilingual Education
Becker, Marc S.; Reed, Larry – 1980
This resource guide was designed for teachers and administrators in Arizona school districts to assist them in preparing functional and meaningful programs of student achievement testing. The format of the guide is based on fundamental questions often posed by educators regarding norm-referenced and criterion-referenced testing. Particular…
Descriptors: Accountability, Criterion Referenced Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics
Roberts, A. Oscar H. – 1976
For Title I evaluations, it may be appropriate to test out-of-level; that is, to override publisher's recommendations concerning the difficulty, length, and content appropriate for a particular grade. It is seldom necessary, however, to move more than one grade down. If the mean is substantially higher than the median, then some pupils will have…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Difficulty Level, Educational Testing, Elementary Secondary Education
A Comparison of Three Types of Test Development Procedures Using Classical and Latent Trait Methods.
Benson, Jeri; Wilson, Michael – 1979
Three methods of item selection were used to select sets of 38 items from a 50-item verbal analogies test and the resulting item sets were compared for internal consistency, standard errors of measurement, item difficulty, biserial item-test correlations, and relative efficiency. Three groups of 1,500 cases each were used for item selection. First…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Difficulty Level, Efficiency, Error of Measurement
UPSHUR, J.A. – 1966
REACTING TO A PAPER WRITTEN BY H. NED SEELYE (SEE "LANGUAGE LEARNING," VOLUME 16, NUMBER 1-2, 1966, PAGES 77-85), THE ARTICLE EXAMINES SOME OF THE QUESTIONS RAISED BY THE ATTEMPT TO ESTABLISH TESTS THAT WOULD ACCURATELY MEASURE THE ABILITY OF CULTURAL STRANGERS TO ADAPT TO A FOREIGN CULTURAL ENVIRONMENT. IN ORDER TO CLARIFY THE PURPOSES OF SUCH…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Training, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Background, Cultural Differences
Shipman, Virginia C.; And Others – 1967
This document contains six studies concerned, primarily, with the effect of maternal influences and attitudes on preschool children. The subjects were lower class Negroes, whites, and Seminole Indians. The titles of the studies and the accession numbers of the individual abstracts are as follows: (A) Maternal Influences Upon Development of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, American Indians, Annual Reports, Behavior Patterns
Baldauf, Richard B., Jr. – 1978
An overview of the system analysis approach to evaluation and the psychometric models currently proposed to evaluate Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I projects is presented. It is argued that, in America's Pacific possessions, the sole use of the systems analysis approach to evaluation fails to provide adequate information to…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education
Hokanson, Dean T.; Jospe, Michael – 1976
The first of three documents on Project SEARCH (Search for Exceptional Abilities Reachable among Children with Handicaps) considers methods of detecting cognitive giftedness in exceptional children. It is explained that Catell's cognitive model of fluid intelligence is the basic premise used. Individual sections are presented on hearing impaired,…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Cognitive Development, Emotional Disturbances, Evaluation Methods
Bradley, Robert H.; Caldwell, Bettye M. – 1974
Because of the developmental characteristics of young children, the potential user of tests for educational evaluation needs to be keenly alert to the kinds of decisions which can be made on the basis of testing and to the limitations of testing when young children serve as subjects. The choice of a test to be used will depend on the type of…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Children, Civil Liberties, Cognitive Tests
Human Resources Center, Albertson, NY. – 1970
This study was designed to develop a skill anaysis test battery which would aid in the prediction of achievement in two specific areas of training. A total of forty educable mentally retarded students in work study classes were selected for training. A three part rating scale specifically for this study was used as criterion meansure against the…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Adjustment (to Environment), Educational Programs, Job Satisfaction
Biggs, J. B. – 1971
In this study, the effects of motivational and behavioral dimensions of study behavior on objective and essay modes of evaluating course content were investigated. Several performance measures in two undergraduate Educational Psychology courses were factor analyzed, and three orthogonal performance factors were obtained: general achievement,…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, College Students, Convergent Thinking, Educational Testing
Kaple, Donald J.; Kaple, Marion Keeler – 1971
This book is designed to aid teachers and administrators who have not had special training in counseling and who are working in educational programs for the disadvantaged adult. Subject areas discussed are: The Counselor and the Client (Duties of the Counselor; Areas of Assistance for the Client); Who Are the Disadvantaged (Characteristics of the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Counseling, Counselor Role, Disadvantaged
