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Download full textStohlman, Trey – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2015
A good assessment plan combines many direct and indirect measures to validate the collected data. One often controversial assessment measure comes in the form of retention exams. Although assessment retention exams may come with faults, others advocate for their inclusion in program assessment. Objective-based tests may offer insight to…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Retention (Psychology), Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness
Honeyford, R. – Use of English, 1973
Argues that objective tests in secondary English will lead to a packaged humanity in which individuals are essentially similar. (Author/RB)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Objective Tests, Secondary Education, Standardized Tests
Peer reviewedAshford, Theordore A. – Journal of Chemical Education, 1972
Presents a brief history of objective tests and their characteristics and limitations as compared to essay tests. (CP)
Descriptors: Chemistry, Essay Tests, Evaluation, History
Massachusetts State Dept. of Education, Boston. – 1972
The 1972 assessment activities in the Massachusetts schools concentrated on the areas of citizenship and science, utilizing two seventh grade samples of 10,000 students each, with each group completing only one assessment form. The testing program utilized National Assessment Items for age 13, as well as a few items from the Measurement Research…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Criterion Referenced Tests, Grade 7, Measurement Techniques
Schools Council, London (England). – 1967
Attainment tests in English and mathematics were administered to a total sample of 2,011/15-year old students. The English test consisted of a composition and a test battery of objective items. Marking of the composition was made by the test designer on a rapid first-impression reading. The objective test battery consisted of a comprehension test,…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Research, English, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedWansor, C. T. – NASSP Bulletin, 1986
Can students' writing ability really be assessed by standardized, objective tests? This question is explored here along with a discussion of the alternatives and advice for principals to help their English and language arts teachers confront the issue. (Author/TE)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Secondary Education, Objective Tests
Green, Douglas W.; Hering, Jeffrey – Creative Computing, 1979
A computer program for analyzing test results is presented. Item analysis and the point biserial correlation coefficient, both generated by this program, are explained and discussed. (MK)
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Computers, Educational Testing, Evaluation
Fiks, A. I. – 1971
A proposal is described to provide objective test results from the yearly School Certificate/GCE Examinations in Nigeria as computer-generated feedback information to individual schools and the Ministries of Education. Absolute, ipsative, and normative analyses would be presented for syllabus topics within each subject matter, and for each subject…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Educational Quality, Feedback, Information Utilization
Peer reviewedPomplun, Mark; Omar, Md Hafidz – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1997
Four threats to validity of an alternative objective test item format, the multiple-mark format, were studied with data from a state-mandated assessment with about 30,000 students at each of three grade levels. Reliability and validity coefficients show that the format has promise as an objective format that can be aligned with new curriculum…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Objective Tests
[Cieutat, V. J.; Snider, J. C.]
Activities of the Test Development and Research Office (TEDRO), a division of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), are described. The WAEC is an international educational and professional testing organization established to serve its four member countries: Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, and The Gambia. The U.S. Agency for International…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Developing Nations, Higher Education
Schools Council, London (England). – 1966
This bulletin describes a trial examination for the geography curriculum as specified by the Certificate of Secondary Education. The total examination is composed of a 2 hour objective examination to test factual knowledge learned in the geography courses. A second part of the total examination consisted of: 1) a paper by the student on some…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Testing
Neill, Monty – 1997
In this study, FairTest evaluated how well state assessment practices live up to the promise of high standards without standardization. The practices of states were measured against standards derived from the "Principles and Indicators for Student Assessment Systems," a 1995 publication of education and civil rights groups working…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Decision Making, Educational Assessment, Educational Change
Neill, Monty – 1997
FairTest evaluated how well state assessment practices live up to the promise of high standards without standardization. The practices of states were measured against standards derived from the "Principles and Indicators for Student Assessment Systems," a 1995 publication of education and civil rights groups working through the National…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Decision Making, Educational Assessment, Educational Change
Luijten, Anton J. M., Ed. – 1991
This collection of 18 papers (selected from a total of 57 presented at a conference of the International Association for Educational Assessment) represents efforts by examining bodies and institutes to: improve the examination system and testing techniques; develop reliable instruments; and establish standards for public examinations. The papers…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Filimon, David J. – 1976
As part of the current trend toward adopting modern, objective-standardized test methods in evaluating the teaching of English as a foreign language (EFL) in the schools of the Socialist Republic of Romania, this review of pedagogical literature makes available to the English-reading audience information that has appeared in Romanian materials.…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, College Students, Educational Testing, English (Second Language)
