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Program Evaluators Handbook: Measurement.

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Farr, S. David; Subkoviak, Michael J.

This handbook for training program evaluators provides background information and practice activities in the following areas: (1) measurement: purposes, ideals, possibilities; (2) defining measurement domains; (3) person and item sampling; (4) test and item selection--with a selected list of standardized tests with pertinent information on each,…

Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Classroom Observation Techniques, Guides, Item Sampling

Why Should All Those Students Take All Those Tests? (Every-Student Testing or Sampling of Selected Groups?).

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National Education Association, Washington, DC. – 1975

The National Education Association's Task Force on Testing has stated its opinion that standardized tests are overused. The task force suggests that the application of sampling techniques and a variety of alternatives to current testing practices would accomplish the same purposes. Representatives of the testing industry have indicated that the…

Descriptors: Accountability, Alternative Assessment, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Testing