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National Occupational Competency Testing Institute, 2012
This guide attempts to address an aspect of secondary CTE (Career and Technical Education) that has received little attention; the assessment literacy of educators. School leaders need to go beyond ensuring routine compliance with external and internal regulatory forces to identify ways in which CTE program teachers might better understand…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Secondary Education, Academic Achievement, Educational Assessment
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Berk, Ronald A. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1980
A dozen different approaches that yield 13 reliability indices for criterion-referenced tests were identified and grouped into three categories: threshold loss function, squared-error loss function, and domain score estimation. Indices were evaluated within each category. (Author/RL)
Descriptors: Classification, Criterion Referenced Tests, Cutting Scores, Evaluation Methods
Enright, Brian E. – 1982
The paper presents 12 steps in developing and validating criterion referenced tests (CRTs). The author emphasizes the need to closely examine the test's stated purpose and trace the test through the 12 steps in order to find CRTs that are useful rather than useless. Examples are given for each step: preparing or selecting objectives; developing…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Test Construction, Test Items
Baker, Eva L. – 1982
This booklet is intended to help school personnel, parents, students, and members of the community understand concepts and research relating to achievement testing in public schools. The paper's sections include: (1) test use with direct effects on students (test of certification, selection, and placement); (2) test use with indirect effects on…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Criterion Referenced Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Glossaries
Duncan, Mary Ellen – Community College Frontiers, 1980
Outlines a six-step process which can be used by faculty teams to assess the validity of criterion-referenced tests. Steps include: comparing test items with course objectives, assessing the test in terms of the domains and levels of Bloom's Taxonomy, and examining the appropriateness of various types of test questions. (JP)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Criterion Referenced Tests, Evaluation Criteria, Item Analysis
Goh, David S. – 1985
This document is a training module designed to familiarize practicing school psychologists and school psychology students with the field of criterion-referenced measurement and recent developments within the field. The introduction gives reasons for the need for criterion-referenced testing as opposed to norm-referenced tests which include legal…
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Counselor Training, Criterion Referenced Tests, Higher Education
Walker, Clinton B. – 1978
Standards for evaluating criterion-referenced tests are presented. Twenty-one standards, grouped in three categories, are discussed. Category one is defined as measurement properties and is comprised of conceptual validity, including description of the domain, test item agreement with objectives, and item representativeness of the objectives; and…
Descriptors: Course Objectives, Criterion Referenced Tests, Evaluation Criteria, Scoring
Horm-Wingerd, Diane M. – 1988
This paper provides an overview of standardized tests and a summary of important psychometric and test construction properties that educators must consider when they make critical evaluations of standardized tests. Sections of the paper concern: (1) basic characteristics of standardized tests; (2) differences between norm-referenced and…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Practices, Guidelines, Norm Referenced Tests
Baker, Eva L. – 1979
This booklet is planned to help teachers, parents, students, and community members to understand concepts and research relating to testing in public schools. Three general uses--public access, accountability, and standards--relate to testing in its broadest conception. The major purposes of tests are discussed, as are some different types of…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Achievement Tests, Criterion Referenced Tests, Elementary Secondary Education
Hardin, Belinda J.; Peisner-Feinberg, Ellen S. – 2001
The Early Learning Accomplishment Profile (Early LAP) provides a systematic method for observing children's functioning in the birth to 36-month age range in order to assist teachers, clinicians, and parents in assessing individual skills development in six developmental domains: gross motor, fine motor, cognition, language, self-help, and social…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Criterion Referenced Tests, Emotional Development
Conway, Malcolm J. – 1979
An advisory committee representing counselors, curriculum specialists, students, teachers, and community members should participate in selecting standardized tests for school districts. These steps should be followed: (1) identify test purpose in relation to needs and objectives--diagnosis, placement, career guidance, program evaluation; (2)…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Criterion Referenced Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria
National PTA, Chicago, IL. – 1985
A brief review of the types and uses of tests, to aid parents in interpreting their children's test scores, is presented. Tests covered include classroom tests, standardized tests, achievement tests, aptitude tests, norm-referenced tests, and criterion-referenced tests. Issues associated with test reliability and validity are addressed and the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, College Entrance Examinations, Criterion Referenced Tests
Ward, James G.; Gould, Jewell C. – 1980
This handbook, in two parts, constitutes a manual prepared by the American Federation of Teachers, for improving teachers' use of standardized tests. Part I outlines basic concepts and issues surrounding standardized testing for teachers, parents and school administrators. The terms norm-referenced tests, criterion referenced tests, minimum…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Criterion Referenced Tests, Elementary Secondary Education
Winnick, Joseph P.; Short, Francis X. – 1998
This test manual presents information on the Brockport Physical Fitness Test (BPFT), a criterion-referenced fitness test for children and adolescents with disabilities. The first chapter of the test manual includes an introduction and target populations are identified, defined, and classified. The second chapter presents information on the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Health, Children, Criterion Referenced Tests
Clark, Burton A. – 1990
This first test and technical manual explains the development, purpose, use, validity, and reliability of the criterion-referenced final examination for the Chemistry of Hazardous Materials course of the National Fire Academy in Emmitsburg (Maryland). Because of possible diversity in the testing knowledge and background of readers, the manual…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Criterion Referenced Tests, Cutting Scores, Fire Fighters
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