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Linehan, Marsha M. – 1976
Both criterion-referenced testing and behavioral assessment share the basic assumption that test behavior is a sample rather than a sign. In addition, both types of assessment focus on response capabilities and performance in specified content domains. Although content validity has been traditionally recognized as essential to criterion-referenced…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Content Analysis, Criterion Referenced Tests, Informal Assessment
French, Joyce N. – 1981
Informal assessment, the use of teacher designed instruments that are based on materials actually used in the content area classroom, is used to determine the student's potential for success with particular materials and the areas of potential difficulty in these materials. Informal assessment also helps to determine the need for supportive…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Diagnostic Teaching, Informal Assessment, Informal Reading Inventories
Garcia, Angela B.; Cerda, Janie De La – 1979
A checklist is presented for the evaluation of an elementary-level bilingual program for Spanish speakers. Questions for check-off cover classroom organization, teacher behavior, specifics of English and Spanish instruction, home culture instruction, teaching methods, and reclassification criteria. It is maintained that a positive response to each…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Demonstration Programs, Elementary Education, English (Second Language)
Wilborn, Bobbie; Gentile, Lance M. – 1978
The primary purpose of the Pupil Appraisal Center (PAC) is to promote teacher education by providing teachers and students direct experience in resolving behavioral disorders and learning problems. PAC provides specialized teacher training in counseling, reading, hearing, speech, and language development and provides service to area schools for…
Descriptors: Child Development, Clinical Diagnosis, Identification, Informal Assessment
Stake, Robert E. – 1975
A responsive educational evaluation is oriented more to program activities than to program intents, and stresses learning about the needs of the evaluation's audience, so that these value perspectives can be noted in reporting the successes and failures of the program. Most evaluation plans are more preordinate, emphasizing: (1) statements of…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Programs, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Download full textRakes, Thomas A.; McWilliams, Lana J. – 1978
The results from two informal measures (a cloze test and a group reading inventory and a standardized reading test were compared in a study of instruments available for measuring adult reading performance. The three instruments were administered to 158 undergraduates enrolled in reading improvement classes. From this group, 75 subjects were…
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
Gastorf, John W.; Suls, Jerry – Social Psychology, 1978
The effects of similarity of persons being compared on self-evaluations, satisfaction with own performance, and evaluation certainty were examined. One experiment manipulated similarity of test scores and found no differences in evaluation certainty. The second experiment also manipulated individual attribute similarity. Greater certainty was…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Confidence Testing, Evaluation Criteria, Higher Education
Peer reviewedBrown, Virginia – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1978
Available from: Council for Exceptional Children, 1920 Association Drive, Reston, Virginia 22091. The author discusses characteristics, assessment, and curriculum development of independent study behaviors in learning disabled students. (BD)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Evaluation Methods, Independent Study, Individual Instruction
Peer reviewedSitlington, Patricia L.; Wimmer, Diane – Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 1978
The paper reviews methods of vocational assessment for handicapped secondary students and considers factors involved in job analysis. (CL)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Handicapped Children, Informal Assessment, Job Analysis
Peer reviewedShavelson, Richard J.; And Others – American Educational Research Journal, 1977
One hundred sixty-four subjects (elementary school teachers and graduate students) were told different stories about a fictitious student which varied in reliability and amount of information. Results indicated that the subjects considered the reliability of the information and revised their decisions accordingly. (Author/MV)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Diagnostic Teaching, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers
Peer reviewedErber, Norman P. – Volta Review, 1977
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Competency Based Education, Elementary Education, Hearing Impairments
Peer reviewedCotlar, Morton; Matsuwaka, Robert – College Student Journal, 1977
A pilot study using changes in a student's self-confidence as a measure of both student achievement and instructional effectiveness was conducted in an undergraduate course. Such research is suggested as a supplement to the current student evaluation methods. (Author)
Descriptors: Achievement, Course Evaluation, Educational Research, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedBatesky, James – Strategies, 1988
This article provides a self-appraisal form which can be used to inspire and rejuvenate teaching performance. Its ultimate goal is to improve teaching skills, either in general or in a particular area. Appropriate references for further reading are given. A sidebar includes one teacher's evaluation of the form and its usefulness. (JL)
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Informal Assessment, Physical Education, Self Actualization
Peer reviewedJensen, Mary A. – Young Children, 1985
Describes the formation of story awareness in young children, suggesting methods for assessment and activities to facilitate its development. (KS)
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Informal Assessment, Learning Activities
Peer reviewedHopkins, Kenneth D.; And Others – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1985
Forty-two fourth- and fifth-grade teachers rated their 1,032 students in the five curricular subjects: reading, mathematics, language arts, science, and social science. The teachers' ratings substantially agreed with students' scores on the Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills, indicating the concurrent validity of standardized achievement tests.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers
