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Allen, Martin – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2013
Well before the examinations grade crisis of 2012, Michael Gove had set out clear intentions for reforming public examinations. Though he claimed to be improving examinations and assessment by replicating practices that took place in high-performing countries and thus improving the ability of the UK economy to "compete", this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Standards, Educational Change, Standardized Tests
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Chitty, Clyde – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2013
Michael Gove has made examination reform a marked feature of his period as Education Secretary in the coalition government, although he has not always found it easy to bring about the changes he feels so strongly about, in the face of widespread opposition from teachers and educationists. This article seeks to analyse the Education Secretary's…
Descriptors: Testing Programs, Politics of Education, Educational History, Educational Change
Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Mader, Nicholas S. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2010
The General Educational Development (GED) credential is issued on the basis of an eight hour subject-based test. The test claims to establish equivalence between dropouts and traditional high school graduates, opening the door to college and positions in the labor market. In 2008 alone, almost 500,000 dropouts passed the test, amounting to 12% of…
Descriptors: Credentials, Testing Programs, Dropouts, Labor Market
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Breithaupt, Krista; Hare, Donovan R. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2007
Many challenges exist for high-stakes testing programs offering continuous computerized administration. The automated assembly of test questions to exactly meet content and other requirements, provide uniformity, and control item exposure can be modeled and solved by mixed-integer programming (MIP) methods. A case study of the computerized…
Descriptors: Testing Programs, Psychometrics, Certification, Accounting
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Haladyna, Thomas M. – Evaluation and the Health Professions, 1994
Articles in this special issue attempt to address the most significant aspect of certification and licensing testing programs: validity. Although construct validity has become the prevailing model, the theoretical formulation of the construct of competence remains a topic of considerable debate. (SLD)
Descriptors: Agenda Setting, Certification, Competence, Construct Validity
Sireci, Stephen G. – 1992
The utility of modified item response theory (IRT) models in small sample testing applications was studied. The modified IRT models were modifications of the one- and two-parameter logistic models. One-, two-, and three-parameter models were also studied. Test data were from 4 years of a national certification examination for persons desiring…
Descriptors: Certification, Financial Services, Item Response Theory, Licensing Examinations (Professions)
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Haladyna, Thomas M. – Evaluation and the Health Professions, 1987
A set of guidelines for planning and establishing a certification testing program is presented. The guidelines are organized into three components: (1) content specification; (2) item development; and (3) test design. A mythical new certification testing program, called the Tennis Players' Certification Testing Program, is used to illustrate the…
Descriptors: Certification, Guidelines, Health Occupations, Higher Education
Potter, Lance; Sjoerdsma, Ronald – 1988
The effort to make the Connecticut Elementary Education Certification Examination (EECE) reflect the skills and knowledge essential to successful beginning teaching is described. This instrument is planned as part of an assessment system being created by the Connecticut State Department of Education. The first element of the program is a basic…
Descriptors: Certification, Educational Assessment, Elementary Education, Knowledge Level
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources. – 1985
A followup to a 1980 General Accounting Office (GAO) report was undertaken to evaluate public and private activities that addressed problems created by U.S. citizens studying medicine abroad and returning to the United States to practice medicine. The 1980 report made suggestions to ensure that U.S. foreign medical graduates received education and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Accreditation (Institutions), Agency Cooperation, Certification