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Fitz-Gibbon, Carol Taylor; Morris, Lynn Lyons – 1987
The "CSE Program Evaluation Kit" is a series of nine books intended to assist people conducting program evaluations. This volume, the eighth in the kit, is divided into three sections, each dealing with an important function that quantitative analysis serves in evaluation: summarizing scores through measures of central tendency and…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Problems, Evaluation Utilization
Download full textKing, Richard L. – 1990
A statewide sustained effort to improve student learning in Missouri by adopting and adapting promising research-based educational practices is described. The concept of an Instructional Management System (IMS) with desired learner outcomes determining both instruction and testing was suggested to local school districts beginning in 1980. In 1985,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education
Millman, Jason – 1972
Two aspects of criterion referenced testing are discussed: cutting scores and test length. Several practices in determining passing scores are enumerated: (1) setting passing scores so that a predetermined percent of students pass; (2) inspecting each test item to determine how important it is that it be answered correctly; (3) determining the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Criterion Referenced Tests, Cutting Scores, Educational Problems
Mills, Rollin W. – 1998
This study was conducted to evaluate the tests developed by elementary foreign language teachers of French, Japanese, and Spanish in a school district in South Carolina. The tests were designed to determine the level of end-of-year student learning and to provide a basis for evaluating the curriculum of each of the three languages. The French and…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Elementary Education, French, Japanese
Schevill, Karl E.; Stone, James C. – 1980
Performance Evaluation in Foreign Language (PEFL) is a Title IV-C project based on Krashen's Monitor Model for second language acquisition. As such, it recognizes both natural learning (situations requiring spontaneous oral communication) and formal, traditional learning (reading, writing, translation, grammar, syntax). The PEFL Student…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Attitude Change, Conversational Language Courses
Northern Territory Dept. of Education, Darwin (Australia). – 1993
This report describes the aggregated reading and mathematics performances of students in years 5 and 7 in urban Northern Territory (Australia) schools on the Primary Assessment Program (PAP) tests. The aggregated results are encouraging, with apparent gains in some reading tests over the preceding year, and no evidence of decline in the others.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Comparative Analysis, Educational Assessment
