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Watson, Anthony – Vocational Aspect of Education, 1994
Compares three competence assessment strategies that differ in the forms and amounts of evidence required and process of obtaining it: (1) performance samples; (2) workplace observations; and (3) evidence of prior achievements. Concludes that performance evidence may need to be supplemented with prior observations or achievement records and that…
Descriptors: Competence, Evaluation Methods, Job Performance, Observation

Siegel, Arthur I. – Personnel Psychology, 1983
Describes miniature job training and evaluation situations administered to 1,034 "low aptitude" Navy recruits. Checklist criterion data describing the on-the-job performance of the sample were collected after the recruits were on their fleet assignments. The results confirmed the predictive validity of the miniature job training…
Descriptors: Enlisted Personnel, Evaluation Methods, Job Performance, Job Training

Everhart, Nancy – Library & Information Science Research, 1997
Work sampling is a research technique where workers are observed at random times and their activities recorded. Data are converted to percentages indicating the overall distribution of how time is spent in various categories. A background of work sampling, its history in libraries and the planning and implementation of a school library media study…
Descriptors: Employment Practices, Evaluation Methods, Job Performance, Learning Resources Centers
Baker, Herbert George; And Others – 1990
Tailored Response Testing (TRT) is a new type of test that has demonstrated its applicability to the evaluation of human performance in a wide variety of occupations and work settings. The Navy is using TRT to measure the technical proficiency of job incumbents in three of its jobs. The methodology holds great promise for testing aboard ships as…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Evaluation Methods, Fire Fighters, Job Performance
McCray, Paul M. – 1982
The document presents a vocational evaluation process based on a diverse mixture of proven principles and practices that have been used in school-based vocational evaluation programs for handicapped students. Following a foreword (part 1), part 2 offers several definitions of vocational evaluation and vocational assessment. Part 3 compares…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Job Analysis
Callahan, William – 1982
This self-instructional module, the fourteenth in a series of 16 on techniques for coordinating work experience programs, deals with vocational assessment. Addressed in the module are the purposes of vocational assessment, the types of information that are gathered in the vocational assessment process, and available vocational assessment…
Descriptors: Cooperative Education, Evaluation Methods, Guidelines, Job Performance