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Download full textWang, Xiaoping; Knight, W. Hal – 1991
The construct validity of two measures of employee job readiness was investigated by examining the relationships between job readiness and achievement motivation, and between readiness and the variables of education and work experience. The readiness, or maturity level, of employees is an important concept in the situational leadership model,…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, College Faculty, Concurrent Validity, Construct Validity
Shute, Valerie J. – 1992
Aptitude-treatment interactions (ATIs) refer to the covariation between learner characteristic and instructional treatment in relation to some outcome measure. To systematically test for ATI, an intelligent tutoring system instructing in basic principles of electricity was chosen as a complex but controlled learning task. Two learning environments…
Descriptors: Adults, Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Attitudes, Behavior Patterns
Sireci, Stephen G.; Fitzgerald, Cyndy; Xing, Dehui – 1998
Adapting credentialing examinations for international uses involves translating tests for use in multiple languages. This paper explores methods for evaluating construct equivalence and item equivalence across different language versions of a test. These methods were applied to four different language versions (English, French, German, and…
Descriptors: Credentials, Engineers, Factor Analysis, Foreign Countries
Prediger, Dale J.; Swaney, Kyle B. – 1992
Starting in the fall of 1992, students will be asked to use the U.S. Department of Defense's "Occu-Find" to find occupations that fit their Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) codes, which will be based on the ASVAB academic ability composite (a measure of student cognitive ability). The purpose of this report is to…
Descriptors: Ability, Adults, Career Counseling, Classification
O'Neil, Harold F., Jr.; And Others – 1992
Two prototypes to categories of necessary workforce skills in five studies are related: (1) "What Work Requires of Schools" by the Secretary's Commission of Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS); (2) "Workplace Basics: The Essential Skills Employers Want" by the American Society of Training and Development (ASTD); (3)…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Competence, Elementary Secondary Education, Employment Potential
Gokcora, Deniz – 1992
A study examined how the SPEAK (Speaking Proficiency English Assessment Kit) Test is perceived by both International Teaching Assistants (ITAs) and instructors at a major midwestern university where it is used as a screening instrument for hiring ITAs. Subjects, 24 ITAs from the social sciences and 24 ITAs from the math-based sciences who took the…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Communication Research, Communication Skills, English (Second Language)
Claudy, John G.; Steel, Lauri – 1990
A study used an existing data set to assess the predictive validity of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) for civilian occupations. (The ASVAB is a multiple-aptitude test battery used by all military services to determine the qualifications of candidates for enlistment and assign enlistees to military occupations.) The…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Armed Forces, Career Choice, Discriminant Analysis
International Personnel Management Association, Washington, DC. – 1983
The International Personnel Management Association Assessment Council (IPMAAC) focuses on improving public personnel assessment in such fields as selection and performance evaluation. Author-generated summaries/outlines of papers presented at the IPMAAC's 1983 conference are provided. The presidential address is "Is There a Future for Test…
Descriptors: Assessment Centers (Personnel), Computer Assisted Testing, Evaluation Methods, Job Analysis
Iribarren, Norma – 1988
Test instruments designed for limited English proficient (LEP) students from pre-school through adult are reviewed in this annotated bibliography. The assessments cited have been evaluated for reliability, validity, and equity, the latter being an emerging criterion in the process of evaluating assessment instruments. The tests most commonly used…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Annotated Bibliographies, Aptitude Tests, Elementary Secondary Education
Imel, Susan – 1990
Pending legislation for the reauthorization of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act mandates the development of performance indicators or standards, which are also called educational indicators, quality indicators, outcome indicators, performance standards, and performance measures. There is general agreement that indicators or standards…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Accountability, Competence, Educational Quality
Further Education Unit, London (England). – 1990
The introduction and the three booklets contained in this packet are intended to provide guidance to further education staff who are implementing, or planning to implement, National Vocational Qualifications (NVQs) based on the standards devised by the Administrative, Business, and Commercial (ABC) Training Group in Great Britain. The boklet on…
Descriptors: Adult Educators, Cooperative Programs, Employment Qualifications, Foreign Countries
Dye, David A. – 1990
The construct validity of biographical items in the Individual Achievement Record (IAR) was assessed in an attempt to develop a confirmatory factor model. This first phase of a two-phase study focused on the IAR's use as a predictor of job performance. The IAR is an empirically keyed biodata inventory containing 112 multiple-choice items. Item…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Biographical Inventories, Construct Validity, Educational Background
Tennessee State Dept. of Education, Nashville. – 1986
This document is an orientation manual for the Career Ladder Counselor Evaluation System, a part of the Tennessee Career Ladder Better Schools Program. The evaluation system for guidance counselors was developed by using the best ideas from educational research and from counselors in Tennessee. The system was field tested in the fall of 1985.…
Descriptors: Career Ladders, Competence, Counselor Evaluation, Counselors
Webster, William J. – 1984
In 1977, the Dallas, Texas Independent School District modified its teacher selection criteria. In addition to the previously used evaluation criteria involving transcripts, references and evaluations, three new measures were employed: (1) a test of verbal and quantitative ability, the Wesman Personnel Classification Test (WPCT), which was later…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Beginning Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Essay Tests
Carlson, Robert E. – 1986
Field tests of test items are useful in developing cutting scores for important tests, such as teacher certification examinations and high school graduation tests, because they indicate test item quality and estimate future examinee performance. However, field test data may provide a faulty indication of examinee performance on the real test.…
Descriptors: Cutting Scores, Graduation Requirements, High Schools, Item Analysis
