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Download full textHart, Kathleen A.; Joscelyn, Mary K., Ed. – 1989
Standardized college-level tests of thinking have serious drawbacks, but they can be used effectively to compare results with other teachers or researchers and to suggest possible ways of measuring aspects of thinking in faculty-constructed tests. Faculty-designed tests should provide opportunities for students to use the important knowledge and…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Intelligence Tests
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Direct linkLosak, John – New Directions for Community Colleges, 1987
Argues that rigorous assessment in the classroom is the only way to reduce outside interference in the assessment process. Sees instructors as poorly prepared to assume assessment roles, recommending an increased reliance on common examinations written by subject discipline experts. (DMM)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Community Colleges, Educational Testing, State Action
Brown, Dean R.; And Others – 1983
The four chapters in this resource book provide general considerations for the development of teacher-made achievement tests in science for students with visual, hearing, and/or orthopedic impairments. Chapter 1 focuses on changes in classroom testing by considering the testing of handicapped students, norm-referenced versus criterion-referenced…
Descriptors: College Science, Hearing Impairments, Higher Education, Physical Disabilities
Rubadeau, Duane O.; And Others – 1990
Intended as a guide in the development of a sound evaluation program utilizing both instructor-produced and standardized tests, this booklet presents a practical, understandable rationale for the development and use of both kinds of testing in the educational setting. Section I discusses the functions of measurement, offering a rationale for…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Community Colleges, Educational Testing, Elementary Secondary Education
Alabama Center for Higher Education, Birmingham. – 1984
This conference, whose theme was "The Testing Issue," addressed problems encountered with standardized testing in Alabama's historically black colleges and universities, and predominantly black high schools. It focused on immediate intervention strategies designed to provide access to high school diplomas, college, graduate and professional…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Basic Skills, Black Education, Black Students
Arter, Judith A.; Estes, Gary D. – 1985
This handbook is intended for persons who might develop or use an item bank to support their testing program. An item bank is defined as a "large collection of distinguishable test items," with "large" explained as meaning that the number of items available is greater than the number to be used in any one test. The first section of the handbook…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Software, Curriculum
Kulm, Gerald, Ed. – 1990
This book explores current theory, research, practice, and policy in the assessment of higher order thinking in mathematics, focusing on the elementary and secondary grades. Current knowledge and research on mathematics learning and testing is synthesized. Examples of innovative test items for classroom use and state assessment programs are…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Computation, Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Uses in Education
