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Download full textAlkin, Marvin C.; And Others
This collection contains 233 objectives and related evaluation items for mathematics--grades four to six. The following categories are included - (1) sets, (2) numbers, numerals, and numeration systems, (3) operations and their properties, (4) measurement, (5) geometry, (6) relations, functions and graphs, (7) probability and statistics, (8)…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Elementary School Mathematics, Evaluation, Geometry
Alkin, Marvin C. – 1970
The potential application of objectives and objective-based measures to evaluation problems of different types is discussed. A framework for categorizing educational evaluation problems and decision areas is used to support the discussion. Decision areas are: 1) selection of the appropriate problem or objective to be served; 2) selection and…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Objectives, Evaluation, Evaluation Needs
Alkin, Marvin C. – 1969
Evaluation of instructional programs involves the process of ascertaining the decisions to be made. The decision maker, not the evaluator, determines the questions to be asked or the decisions to be made. A second task of evaluation deals with the specification of required information in light of system objectives. The task of the evaluator…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Decision Making, Difficulty Level, Evaluation Criteria
Alkin, Marvin C. – 1970
This review of a research institute's evaluation of the national Follow Through program asserts that both the contracting office and the research institute failed to adequately specify the kind of study intended and the functions which it proposed to serve. One of several kinds of evaluation studies might have been undertaken: (1) a research…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Evaluation Methods, Objectives, Program Evaluation
Alkin, Marvin C.; Kosecoff, Jacqueline B. – 1973
A discussion of client evaluation is presented. One of the initial elements in performing an evaluation is "framing the decision context." In framing this context, the evaluator is faced with several key questions, for example, "Who are the decision makers or decision audiences to whom he will be presenting information?" and "What are the likely…
Descriptors: Counseling Services, Decision Making, Evaluation Methods, Models
Alkin, Marvin C.; Bruno, James E. – 1970
Any general systems approach has five basic elements, which serve as the tasks for the researcher using systems analysis. The five are (1) the objectives, (2) the alternatives, (3) the costs, (4) the model (or models), and (5) the decision rule. With these five steps, the researcher should be able to specify the objectives, select alternatives,…
Descriptors: Costs, Critical Path Method, Decision Making, Educational Planning
