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New Brunswick Dept. of Advanced Education and Training, Fredericton. Interprovincial Standards Program Coordinating Committee. – 1987
In January 1985, Employment and Immigration Canada funded a pilot project in New Brunswick for the development and testing of an Interprovincial Computerized Examination Management (ICEM) System. The resulting system is comprised of a dual interprovincial and provincial item bank facility, a software component offering the option of computerized…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Graphics, Foreign Countries, Item Banks
New South Wales Dept. of Education, Sydney (Australia). – 1979
A set of short tests aimed at measuring student mastery of specific skills in the natural sciences are presented with a description of the mastery program's purposes, development, and methods. Mastery learning, criterion-referenced testing, and the scope of skills to be tested are defined. Each of the multiple choice tests for grades 7 through 10…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Item Banks, Mastery Tests, Natural Sciences
New South Wales Dept. of Education, Sydney (Australia). – 1980
Continuing a series of short tests aimed at measuring student mastery of specific skills in the natural sciences, this supplementary volume includes teachers' notes, a users' guide and inspection copies of test items 27 to 50. Answer keys and test scoring statistics are provided. The items are designed for grades 7 through 10, and a list of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Item Banks, Mastery Tests, Natural Sciences
New South Wales Dept. of Education, Sydney (Australia). – 1978
As part of a series of tests to measure mastery of specific skills in the natural sciences, copies of the first 13 tests are provided. Skills to be tested include: (1) reading a table; (2) using a biological key; (3) identifying chemical symbols; (4) identifying parts of a human body; (5) reading a line graph; (6) identifying electronic and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Item Banks, Mastery Tests, Natural Sciences
New South Wales Dept. of Education, Sydney (Australia). – 1978
As part of a series of tests to measure mastery of specific skills in the natural sciences, copies of tests 14 through 26 include: (14) calculating an average; (15) identifying parts of the scientific method; (16) reading a geological map; (17) identifying elements, mixtures and compounds; (18) using Ohm's law in calculation; (19) interpreting…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Item Banks, Mastery Tests, Natural Sciences
New South Wales Dept. of Education, Sydney (Australia). – 1979
As part of a series of tests to measure mastery of specific skills in the natural sciences, copies of tests 27 through 38 include: (27) reading a grid plan; (28) identifying common invertebrates; (29) characteristics of invertebrates; (30) identifying elements; (31) using scientific notation part I; (32) classifying minerals; (33) predicting the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Item Banks, Mastery Tests, Natural Sciences
New South Wales Dept. of Education, Sydney (Australia). – 1980
As part of a series of tests to measure mastery of specific skills in the natural sciences, copies of tests 39 through 50 include: (39) using a code; (40) naming the parts of a microscope; (41) calculating density and predicting flotation; (42) estimating metric length; (43) using SI symbols; (44) using s=vt; (45) applying a novel theory; (46)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Item Banks, Mastery Tests, Natural Sciences
New South Wales Dept. of Education, Sydney (Australia). – 1980
As part of a series of tests to measure mastery of specific skills in the natural sciences, copies of tests 51 through 65 include: (51) interpreting atomic and mass numbers; (52) extrapolating from a geological map; (53) matching geological sections and maps; (54) identifying parts of the human eye; (55) identifying the functions of parts of a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Item Banks, Mastery Tests, Natural Sciences
van Houten, Carel A. – 1980
A "teacher referenced" test system is discussed in terms of its development, evaluation of implementation, and final validation. This diagnostic test system for problems in primary mathematics in Holland provides reliable, applicable information about both the learning process for the classroom teacher, and diagnostic instruments and…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedJohnson, Sandra; Bell, John F. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 1985
The assessment framework underlying a science performance monitoring program is process-oriented and intended to appeal to generalizability theory for a suitable estimation paradigm. Preliminary applications are described. Results suggest that computerized question-banking, domain-sampling of questions, and generalizablity theory together provide…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computer Assisted Testing, Educational Assessment, Foreign Countries
