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Ting Zhang; Paul Bailey; Yuqi Liao; Emmanuel Sikali – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2024
The EdSurvey package helps users download, explore variables in, extract data from, and run analyses on large-scale assessment data. The analysis functions in EdSurvey account for the use of plausible values for test scores, survey sampling weights, and their associated variance estimator. We describe the capabilities of the package in the context…
Descriptors: National Competency Tests, Information Retrieval, Data Collection, Test Validity
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Sieverts, Eric G.; Hofstede, Marten – Electronic Library, 1994
This last article in a series which reported results of a software evaluation project done by the Netherlands Association of Users of Online Information Systems (VOGIN) focuses on how to select appropriate software. Topics discussed include price considerations; user needs; and types and quality of information. (Contains 11 references.) (LRW)
Descriptors: Computer Software Evaluation, Computer Software Selection, Costs, Databases
Feldman, Susan – Searcher, 1997
Presents guidelines for selecting World Wide Web search engines. Real-life questions were used to test six search engines. Queries sought company information, product reviews, medical information, foreign information, technical reports, and current events. Compares performance and features of AltaVista, Excite, HotBot, Infoseek, Lycos, and Open…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Software Evaluation, Computer Software Selection, Guidelines
Raitt, David I. – 1989
Written from the viewpoint of an observer of the computer industry and a CD-ROM user, this report looks at CD-ROM evaluation guidelines; notes the performance of publishers; and comments on successful product design. It is contended that some software publishers are jumping on the CD-ROM bandwagon, and are guilty of: (1) putting "any old stuff"…
Descriptors: Computer Software Development, Computer Software Evaluation, Computer Software Selection, Database Producers