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Keech, Catharine Lucas – 1981
The heavy concentration of time and funds to measure writing performance is the major reason other areas deserving scrutiny are so often neglected by evaluators. Three failings typical of the field of writing assessment as it is conducted for the purpose of program evaluation are: (1) a failure to view writing as a multiple construct; (2) a…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Program Evaluation, Testing Problems
Download full textEducational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. – 1969
The 1969 Western Regional Conference on Testing Problems dealt with developments and assessments in educational centers and laboratories. The following speeches were presented: (1) "Behavioral Objective Specifications in Evaluation: Relevant or Irrelevant" by Marvin C. Alkin; (2) "Approaches to the Validation of Learning Hierarchies" by Margaret…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Educational Development, Educational Research, Evaluation Criteria
Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. – 1971
The twentieth Western Regional Conference on Testing Problems dealt with the issues of assessment/accountability and non-traditional programs. The following speeches were given: (1) "The New Approach of the California State Colleges" by Glenn S. Dumke; (2) "Toward Institutional Goal-Consciousness" by Richard E. Peterson; (3) "The Commission on…
Descriptors: Accountability, Conference Reports, Educational Change, Educational Innovation
Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. – 1967
The 1967 meeting of the Western Regional Conference on Testing Problems dealt with evaluation and educational change. The following speeches were presented: (1) "The Atypical Student" by Carole A. Leland; (2) "Citizenship Assessment" by Vincent N. Campbell; (3) "Educational Criteria and the Cheshire-Cat" by Scarvia B. Anderson; (4) "Are…
Descriptors: College Credits, Conference Reports, Educational Change, Educational Innovation
Peer reviewedShapiro, Edna – School Review, 1973
Author attempts to determine whether testing perpetuates a misevaluation of children's abilities. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Data Analysis, Educational Testing, Evaluation Criteria
Stucker, J. P.; Hall, G. R. – 1971
This document, part one of a report on performance contracting, explores its basic issues and considerations and is addressed to educational decisionmakers. The evolution of performance contracting is traced and the concept as it is currently being applied in education is discussed. The second part will analyze the outcomes of some programs when…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Administrators, Contracts
Kosecoff, Jacqueline; Fink, Arlene – 1976
This report represents the results of an investigation of the appropriateness of criterion-referenced tests (CRTS) for large-scale evaluations. First, the development and validation of CRTS, including the formulation and generation of CRT objectives, items, and score-interpretation schemes and dimensions of item and test quality, were examined to…
Descriptors: Criteria, Criterion Referenced Tests, Feasibility Studies, Program Effectiveness
Educational Testing Service, Washington, DC. Education Policy Research Inst. – 1977
In February, 1976, the Education Policy Research Institute sponsored this conference on the use of tests in educational policy formation; these six papers were presented at that conference. In the first paper, Jenne K. Britell discusses four points that have historically characterized debates about testing; psychometric and technical issues;…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Educational Assessment, Educational Policy, Educational Testing
Klein, Stephen P.; Kosecoff, Jacqueline P. – 1975
A procedure for in-depth analysis of a limited number of tests being considered for selection by a school, district, project, or state personnel is described. This procedure involves listing the objectives that it would be desirable to measure determining the relative importance of each of these objectives, having "judges" match test items to…
Descriptors: Correlation, Educational Objectives, Evaluation, Evaluation Criteria
CARTON, AARON S. – 1961
AN INTRODUCTION WHICH STATES THE PURPOSES OF AN EVALUATION OF FLES PROGRAMS AND STRESSES THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN VALUE JUDGMENT AND EVALUATION IS FOLLOWED BY A DISCUSSION OF THE RELATION BETWEEN EVALUATION AND CURRICULUM. TEST AND MEASUREMENT PROCEDURES FOR EVALUATING FLES PROGRAMS ARE THEN SUGGESTED. A CONCLUDING SECTION INDICATES THE DESIGN OF A…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Audiolingual Skills, Curriculum Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
Moss (William L.) and Associates, Ltd., Alexandria, VA. – 1991
An evaluation of Round One of a pilot study of a system for identifying effective youth organizations around the world is presented in this report. The report begins with a page of general observations about the successes and shortcomings of the pilot study, indicating that in general the study accomplished its objectives but that a need for…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Evaluation Criteria, Foreign Countries
Abelow, David; Novak, Carl D. – 1978
The RMC Corporation, under contract to the U.S. Office of Education, developed a reporting and evaluation system to be used at the state and local level for evaluating Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I programs. The three evaluation models and RMC's recommendations regarding their implementation specified stringent requirements…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Computer Programs, Data Collection, Educational Testing
Peer reviewedTallmadge, G. Kasten – Journal of Career Education, 1979
Discusses the need for awareness of real and potential problems in educational evaluation approaches, kinds of problems there are with true experimental designs and with quasi-experimental designs, and the criteria applied by the Joint Dissemination Review Panel to its review of educational programs. (MF)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Career Education, Educational Assessment, Educational Experiments
Horner, Walter R.; And Others – 1970
A set of pilot performance reference scales was developed based upon airborne Audio-Video Recording (AVR) of student performance in T-37 undergraduate Pilot Training. After selection of the training maneuvers to be studied, video tape recordings of the maneuvers were selected from video tape recordings already available from a previous research…
Descriptors: Aircraft Pilots, Audiovisual Instruction, Criterion Referenced Tests, Evaluation Methods
McCandless, Sam A. – 1967
This paper traces the history of the College Entrance Examination Board from its beginnings through its operations in 1966. Using materials drawn from various published and unpublished sources both of the Board and of the Educational Testing Service, summary accounts of objectives, formats, manner of administration, scoring, and critical…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Admission Criteria, Aptitude Tests, College Admission
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