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Direct linkGoodman, Gay; Arbona, Consuelo; Dominguez de Rameriz, Romilia – Journal of Teacher Education, 2008
Increasingly, teacher educators recommend authentic, performance-related measures for evaluating teacher candidates. Nevertheless, more states are requiring teachers to pass high-stakes, minimum-competency exams. This study examined the relation between teacher candidate scores on authentic measures and their scores on certification exams required…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Teacher Competencies, Preservice Teacher Education, Portfolio Assessment
Peer reviewedTrent, John H.; Gilman, Robert A. – Journal of American Indian Education, 1985
On Nevada's minimum competency arithmetic test (Grade 11) 58% of Native American students passed compared to 84% of Whites. Surveys of Nevada educators indicated that performance of Indian students could be improved by remediation, individualized instruction, unbiased texts, occupational counseling, and cultural sensitivity on the part of all…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indians, Change Strategies, Comparative Testing
Download full textFelipe, Abraham I. – International Education Journal, 2006
The present study tested the assumption of a positive and linear relation between years of schooling and school learning in the Philippine setting. It replicated a 1976 study that had cast doubt on this assumption in the Philippine public educational system. It tested three competing hypotheses for that finding: common sense, the 1976 arrested…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Grade 5, Grade 4, Educational Attainment
Pask, Judith M.; Saunders, E. Stewart – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2004
A basic tenet of information literacy programs is that the skills needed to use computers and the skills needed to find and evaluate information are two separate sets of skills. Outside the library this is not always the view. The claim is sometimes made that information skills are acquired by learning computer skills. All that is needed is a…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Information Literacy, Information Skills, Computer Literacy
Gross, Susan; Stevenson, Jose W. – Spectrum, 1986
Presents the preliminary results of a comparison of Computerized Adaptive Testing (CAT) and conventional testing of English competency for students with limited English proficiency. The CAT procedure, which uses computers and a measurement theory known as Item Response Theory (IRT), provides several benefits that traditional paper and pencil…
Descriptors: Comparative Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Testing
Peer reviewedColliver, Jerry A.; And Others – Evaluation and the Health Professions, 1992
The presence and extent of overlap between checklist and written scores using data for over 400 medical students in 6 classes on an examination including clinical encounter stations with standardized patients were studied. Eighty-three cases used both measures. Written scores provide information in addition to that of the checklists. (SLD)
Descriptors: Check Lists, Clinical Diagnosis, Comparative Testing, Competence
