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Download full textGoh, David S. – 1985
This document is a training module designed to familiarize practicing school psychologists and school psychology students with the field of criterion-referenced measurement and recent developments within the field. The introduction gives reasons for the need for criterion-referenced testing as opposed to norm-referenced tests which include legal…
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Counselor Training, Criterion Referenced Tests, Higher Education
Peer reviewedBerk, Ronald A. – Review of Educational Research, 1986
Thirty-eight methods are presented for either setting standards or adjusting them based on an analysis of classification error rates. A trilevel classification scheme is used to categorize the methods, and 10 criteria of technical adequacy and practicability are proposed to evaluate them. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Cutting Scores, Elementary Secondary Education, Error of Measurement
Jolly, S. Jean – Spectrum, 1983
Proposes that objective-referenced tests replace norm-referenced tests as a vehicle for program evaluation. Describes a methodology, based on latent trait theory, for joining norm-referenced and objective-referenced testing in a customized testing program. (TE)
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Latent Trait Theory, Measurement Objectives
Rosenblatt, Richard D. – 1979
The effectiveness of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I reading and mathematics laboratories were evaluated to assess the improvement of underachieving elementary school students' academic skills. Laboratory students were selected on the basis of academic (rather than socioeconomic) criteria in grades 2 through 5; the control…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Analysis of Covariance, Compensatory Education
Oxford, Rebecca L.; And Others – 1979
The Washington state Title I Migrant Program Evaluation project is a feasibility study designed to assess the suitability of existing normed criterion referenced tests to measuring mathematics achievement at grades four, five, and six. Objectives include judging the technical qualities and content of several normed criterion referenced tests;…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Objectives, Elementary School Mathematics
Peer reviewedYsseldyke, James E.; Marston, Douglas – School Psychology Review, 1982
When selecting standardized reading tests for purposes of decision making, the school psychologist must answer several questions, such as "What reading skills do I wish to assess?" or "How do I judge if the test is technically adequate?" Recommendations for test selection are made within the context of these questions.…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Elementary Education, Group Testing, Individual Testing
Inman, Patricia; Trott, Charles E. – 1999
Research identified a literacy assessment program applicable to the adult population functioning at pre-General Education Development (GED) test levels. An attempt to align the Test of Adult Basic Education (TABE) with the Illinois State Board of Education Learning Standards failed. ACT Work Keys emerged as the recommended and most effective…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Certificates
