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Oosterhof, Albert C. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1987
This module describes a method for weighting various measures of student achievement, such as examinations and home assignments, in order to combine these measures into a final grade. Standard deviation methods receive extensive attention. (TJH)
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Evaluation Criteria, Grading, Norm Referenced Tests

Millman, Jason – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1994
The unfulfilled promise of criterion-referenced measurement is that it would permit valid inferences about what a student could and could not do. To come closest to achieving all that criterion-referenced testing originally promised, tests of higher item density, with more items per amount of domain, are required. (SLD)
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational History, Inferences, Norm Referenced Tests

Glaser, Robert – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1994
Issues in the measurement of subject matter proficiency, as defined by recognized subject matter scholars, are explored as they relate to the increasing use of teaching machines, programmed learning, and broadly conceived instructional systems. Criterion-referenced measurement is discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Technology, Learning, Measurement Techniques

Linn, Robert L. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1994
The term "criterion-referenced measurement" has been so frequently used that accumulated surplus meaning has sometimes swamped the fundamental concept. Stripping away extraneous interpretations affirms the contemporary relevance of the concept. Substituting the term "construct-referenced" underscores the need for better…
Descriptors: Behaviorism, Criterion Referenced Tests, Cutting Scores, Learning

Terwilliger, James S. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1989
The process of assigning grades to students is analyzed, and a specific approach to grading is recommended that distinguishes between minimal and developmental objectives. Criterion-referenced and norm-referenced concepts are used in the approach, which is best suited for secondary school or college. (SLD)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Faculty, Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Objectives