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Texas Education Agency, Austin. – 1984
This guide describes the background of the Texas Assessment of Basic Skills (TABS) program, objectives, and tests. It is designed to assist school personnel in reading and comprehending the student information contained in student performance data included in TABS reports. TABS is a criterion-referenced measure for assessment of student…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Objectives
Download full textPhelps, James; And Others – 1978
The Michigan Educational Assessment Program (MEAP) was designed to provide information on the extent to which Michigan students have attained minimal performance objectives. This manual was written to help local Michigan school district staff read, interpret, and use MEAP data. The 1977-78 MEAP provided objective-referenced achievement measures in…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives
PDF pending restorationGlass, Gene V. – 1977
The logical and psychological bases for setting cutting scores for criterion-referenced tests are examined; they are found to be intrinsically arbitrary and are often examples of misdirected precision and axiomatization. The term, criterion referenced, originally referred to a technique for making test scores meaningful by controlling the test…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Competency Based Education, Criterion Referenced Tests, Cutting Scores
Lazarus, Mitchell – 1982
In eight chapters, this document offers guidelines for school administrators on evaluating schools and school programs, based on a poll of administrators and consultants. The introduction discusses the purpose of evaluation, especially school improvement, and presents a list of evaluation standards. Chapter 1 outlines steps in evaluation planning,…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Educational Environment, Educational Improvement, Educational Objectives
Texas Education Agency, Austin. – 1982
The Texas Assessment of Basic Skills (TABS) helps to improve basic skills mastery by assessing student achievement and district performance levels in reading, writing and mathematics. TABS was designed to provide information for instructional planning in the state-funded compensatory education service. Minimum competency objectives are to be…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 3
PDF pending restorationBauer, Ernest A.; And Others – 1979
The reading portion of the Michigan Educational Assessment Program (MEAP) was equated to the reading comprehension subtest of the Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills (CTBS) using the Rasch Model. Both tests were administered to 366 low achieving fourth grade students. MEAP was treated as both a 95-item test and a 19-item (number of objectives…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Criterion Referenced Tests, Difficulty Level, Educational Objectives
