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Lougheed, Val; Hunter, Bev – 1991
Northern Lights Vocational Services of Ontario (Canada) is an agency that grew out of a need for people to have access to vocational services on a local basis. It replaces traditional, facility-based testing technologies with new tools that can be used in a community setting. The agency has developed an approach to vocational evaluation and…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries, Professional Development, Skill Analysis

Hackling, Mark W.; Garnett, Patrick J. – Australian Science Teachers Journal, 1995
Uses a problem-solving task to compare the performance of school students, university students, and research scientists on a laboratory-based science investigation. Reports limitations in the work of the school students and provides insights into the development and nature of expertise in investigation skills. Presents recommendations for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Problem Solving, Science Experiments
Reflections on Practical Assessment in GCSE 2: Implementation and Implications of GCSE Requirements.

Carrick, Tessa – Journal of Biological Education, 1987
Aspects of practical assessment such as question design and management of the assessment are discussed. Reference is made to some of the problems and to the possibilities for innovation as a result of implementing practical assessment of the kind required by the General Certificate of Secondary Education examining groups. (CW)
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Certification, Foreign Countries, Science Education

Urbanska, Aleksandra – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 1993
Preschool children (n=115) in Poland were tested in five areas: counting, equipotency of sets, dividing, adding, and comparing. Results showed that these children already had informal knowledge of many of the concepts and skills included in the mathematics curriculum in the early grades. (PDD)
Descriptors: Addition, Arithmetic, Computation, Division
Grande Prairie School District No. 2357 (Alberta). – 1986
A two-year study designed to evaluate an elementary language arts program in the Grande Prairie School District (Edmonton, Alberta) through an assessment of student achievement was conducted from 1983 to 1985. A major focus of the study was the area of listening, and the listening tests and teacher's manuals presented in this document are intended…
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Assessment, Educational Research, Educational Testing
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. – 1986
Part of the Alberta (Canada) Education's "Program of Studies for Elementary Schools, 1978" (amended 1981), this publication presents the curriculum specifications for the grade six language arts achievement test. These curriculum specifications integrate a taxonomy of levels of thinking skills with a set of five communications…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Communication Skills, Comprehension, Critical Thinking
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. – 1987
Part 2 of the Alberta (Canada) Education's "Program of Studies for Elementary Schools 1978" (amended 1981), this bulletin describes the planned design, parts, and scoring of the grade six English language arts achievement test to be written in June 1988, and based on curriculum specifications for an integration of thinking and…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Critical Thinking, Educational Testing, Elementary Education
Mitchell, Barbara J. – 1983
This booklet, the third in a series of four volumes on the Designing a Curriculum (Dacum) process, is intended to assist Dacum workshop participants, program developers, and others in using skill profile charts in order to formulate objectives for competency-based vocational and technical training programs. Examined in the first two sections are…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Competency Based Education, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Design
Hayton, Geoff; And Others – 1991
This four-part package is designed to assist Australian workshop leaders running 2-day workshops on skills analysis, skills audit, and training needs analysis. Part A contains information on how to use the package and a list of workshop aims. Parts B, C, and D consist, respectively, of the workshop leader's guide; overhead transparency sheets and…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Data Analysis, Employment Qualifications, Foreign Countries
Mitchell, Barbara J. – 1983
This booklet, the second in a series of four volumes on the Designing a Curriculum (Dacum) process, is intended to familiarize prospective Dacum workshop participants with the goals and procedures of the workshop. The first section of the booklet comprises a description of a Dacum workshop as a means of bringing together educators and employers to…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Cooperative Planning, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development
Fretwell, David H.; Lewis, Morgan V.; Deij, Arjen – 2001
The key issues, alternatives, and implications for developing countries to consider when designing systems to define occupational standards, related training standards, and assessments were analyzed. The analysis focused on the following issues: the rationale for development of standards; clarification of definitions, terminology, and assumptions;…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Comparative Education, Cooperative Planning, Developed Nations