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Task-Teaching Versus Test-Teaching.

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Popham, W. James – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1983

Developers of high stakes criterion-referenced tests are urged to formulate test tasks so that efficient instruction can promote student mastery of the domain. Time-on-task has been promoted by instructional psychologists as preferable to test teaching. (DWH)

Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Objectives, Instructional Improvement

Classroom Standard Setting and Grading Practices.

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Terwilliger, James S. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1989

The process of assigning grades to students is analyzed, and a specific approach to grading is recommended that distinguishes between minimal and developmental objectives. Criterion-referenced and norm-referenced concepts are used in the approach, which is best suited for secondary school or college. (SLD)

Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Faculty, Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Objectives