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Fitzpatrick, Tess; Clenton, Jon – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2017
This article offers a solution to a significant problem for teachers and researchers of language learning that confounds their interpretations and expectations of test data: The apparent simplicity of tests of vocabulary knowledge masks the complexity of the constructs they claim to measure. The authors first scrutinise task elements in two widely…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Vocabulary Development, Difficulty Level, Performance Factors
Farlow, Leslie J.; And Others – Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps (JASH), 1991
Students with severe/profound mental retardation performed functional tasks under training or probe conditions. Analysis of nine students' records indicated that students do not react to probe conditions as if they were extinction conditions; training data do not consistently reflect performance under probe conditions; and data collected under…
Descriptors: Data Interpretation, Evaluation Methods, Performance Factors, Severe Mental Retardation

Hartley, James – Instructional Science, 1973
There is evidence that pre-tests can have orienting and motivational and teaching functions - in addition to the sought-for testing function. There is also evidence that these additional functions can be either general or specific. The present paper contributes to the ongoing debate by discussing the issues involved in the context of a series of…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Formative Evaluation
Lam, Tony C. M. – 1995
Performance assessment is a type of educational assessment in which judgments are made about student knowledge and skills based on observation of student behavior or inspection of student products. In dealing with the issue of fairness in performance assessment, educators are confronted with some dilemmas. Assuring equality in performance…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Problems, Evaluation Research, Performance Factors
Pullis, Joe M. – Journal of Business Education, 1972
Describes some of the hazards of evaluating timed typewriting by the error cut-off method. (MU)
Descriptors: Business Education Teachers, Business Skills, Evaluation Methods, Office Occupations Education
Brennan, Robert L.; Stolurow, Lawrence M. – 1971
A replicable process for improving instruction through the consistent use of student data collected before, during, and after instruction is proposed. A rational analysis of different types of error rates (theoretical, base, posttest, instructional) and discrimination indices (base, posttest) leads to a set of rules for identifying test items and…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Criterion Referenced Tests, Decision Making, Discriminant Analysis