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Schmidt, Steven W. – Online Submission, 2004
Job training has become an important aspect of an employee's overall job experience. However, it is not often called out specifically on instruments measuring job satisfaction. This technical manual details the processes used in the development and validation of a survey instrument to measure job training satisfaction and overall job…
Descriptors: Job Training, Employment Experience, Job Satisfaction, Test Construction
Beile, Penny – Online Submission, 2005
No population exists where it is more important to produce information literate individuals than teacher candidates, yet few would suggest that practitioners newly entering the field are adequately prepared to model and teach information literacy to their students. Consequently, information literacy has recently been established as a key outcome…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Information Literacy, Preservice Teachers, Academic Standards
Rizavi, Saba; Hariharan, Swaminathan – Online Submission, 2001
The advantages that computer adaptive testing offers over linear tests have been well documented. The Computer Adaptive Test (CAT) design is more efficient than the Linear test design as fewer items are needed to estimate an examinee's proficiency to a desired level of precision. In the ideal situation, a CAT will result in examinees answering…
Descriptors: Guessing (Tests), Test Construction, Test Length, Computer Assisted Testing
Ingels, Steven J. – Online Submission, 2004
This paper addresses two audiences--those who design education trend studies that simultaneously have longitudinal and intercohort implications, and the secondary analysts who use such trend data. Four study series conducted for the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) provide material for the paper: the…
Descriptors: Change, Cohort Analysis, Comparative Analysis, Computation