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Popham, W. James; And Others – Educational Technology, 1974
A discussion of how the competence of instructional developers might be measured and evaluated. (HB)
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Instructional Design, Instructional Materials, Performance Criteria
Download full textPopham, W. James – 1973
Teacher educators have been plagued with the problem of devising useful instructional interventions, but often have been unable to assess the quality of their efforts because of the unavailability of satisfactory criterion measures. The application of teaching performance tests as (1) an instructional intervention, and as (2) a formative or…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Performance Tests
Peer reviewedPopham, W. James – American Educational Research Journal, 1971
Descriptors: Auto Mechanics, Behavioral Objectives, Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Objectives
Peer reviewedPopham, W. James – Evaluation and the Health Professions, 1978
Norm-referenced tests are inappropriate for evaluating health care practitioners; criterion referenced tests better describe what is not being measured. Reliable assessment of competency should focus on the valid testing of reasonable numbers of important skills. Available from: Sage Publications, Inc., 275 South Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills,…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Needs
Popham, W. James – 1995
The nature of classroom assessment is changing. Teachers are being urged to rely less on traditional tests and more on innovative measurement methods, such as performance tests and portfolio assessments. This digest describes a strategy whereby student services personnel can play a leadership role in familiarizing classroom teachers and school…
Descriptors: Counselor Teacher Cooperation, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Popham, W. James – 1969
A project was undertaken to develop and validate a method of assessing teacher competence through the use of pupil performance tests. Teachers were given a list of specific, operationally defined objectives for a particular topic and directed to teach the objectives. Teacher competence was judged in relationship to the way their students performed…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Behavioral Objectives
Popham, W. James; Husek, T. R. – J Educ Meas, 1969
Research partially supported by the UCLA Center for the Study of Evaluation of Instructional Programs.
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Evaluation Criteria, Item Analysis, Measurement
Popham, W. James – School Administrator, 2000
Certain that students' average standardized test scores did not reflect their faculty's teaching effectiveness, Department of Defense dependent schools in Wuerzburg, Germany, mounted a districtwide experiment involving performance tests and rubrics in writing and science. Teachers documented gains in students' high-level writing and science skill…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Dependents Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Popham, W. James – 1968
Two performance tests of teaching proficiency in the field of trade and industrial education were developed during this project, one in the field of auto mechanics (carburetion) and one in the field of electronics (power supplies). An assessment was made of each test's ability to distinguish between experienced teachers and the non-teacher with…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Auto Mechanics, Behavioral Objectives, Electronics
