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Australian Council for Educational Research, 2015
Monitoring Trends in Educational Growth (MTEG) offers a flexible, collaborative approach to developing and implementing an assessment of learning outcomes that yields high-quality, nationally relevant data. MTEG is a service that involves ACER staff working closely with each country to develop an assessment program that meets the country's…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Educational Trends, Progress Monitoring, Educational Quality
New South Wales Dept. of Education, Sydney (Australia). – 1979
A set of short tests aimed at measuring student mastery of specific skills in the natural sciences are presented with a description of the mastery program's purposes, development, and methods. Mastery learning, criterion-referenced testing, and the scope of skills to be tested are defined. Each of the multiple choice tests for grades 7 through 10…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Item Banks, Mastery Tests, Natural Sciences
New South Wales Dept. of Education, Sydney (Australia). – 1980
Continuing a series of short tests aimed at measuring student mastery of specific skills in the natural sciences, this supplementary volume includes teachers' notes, a users' guide and inspection copies of test items 27 to 50. Answer keys and test scoring statistics are provided. The items are designed for grades 7 through 10, and a list of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Item Banks, Mastery Tests, Natural Sciences
New South Wales Dept. of Education, Sydney (Australia). – 1978
As part of a series of tests to measure mastery of specific skills in the natural sciences, copies of the first 13 tests are provided. Skills to be tested include: (1) reading a table; (2) using a biological key; (3) identifying chemical symbols; (4) identifying parts of a human body; (5) reading a line graph; (6) identifying electronic and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Item Banks, Mastery Tests, Natural Sciences
New South Wales Dept. of Education, Sydney (Australia). – 1978
As part of a series of tests to measure mastery of specific skills in the natural sciences, copies of tests 14 through 26 include: (14) calculating an average; (15) identifying parts of the scientific method; (16) reading a geological map; (17) identifying elements, mixtures and compounds; (18) using Ohm's law in calculation; (19) interpreting…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Item Banks, Mastery Tests, Natural Sciences
New South Wales Dept. of Education, Sydney (Australia). – 1979
As part of a series of tests to measure mastery of specific skills in the natural sciences, copies of tests 27 through 38 include: (27) reading a grid plan; (28) identifying common invertebrates; (29) characteristics of invertebrates; (30) identifying elements; (31) using scientific notation part I; (32) classifying minerals; (33) predicting the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Item Banks, Mastery Tests, Natural Sciences
New South Wales Dept. of Education, Sydney (Australia). – 1980
As part of a series of tests to measure mastery of specific skills in the natural sciences, copies of tests 39 through 50 include: (39) using a code; (40) naming the parts of a microscope; (41) calculating density and predicting flotation; (42) estimating metric length; (43) using SI symbols; (44) using s=vt; (45) applying a novel theory; (46)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Item Banks, Mastery Tests, Natural Sciences
New South Wales Dept. of Education, Sydney (Australia). – 1980
As part of a series of tests to measure mastery of specific skills in the natural sciences, copies of tests 51 through 65 include: (51) interpreting atomic and mass numbers; (52) extrapolating from a geological map; (53) matching geological sections and maps; (54) identifying parts of the human eye; (55) identifying the functions of parts of a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Item Banks, Mastery Tests, Natural Sciences
Bourke, S. F.; And Others – 1981
The Australian Studies in Student Performance project was a response by the Australian Education Council to community concern about Australian education standards. It was intended that the results of an empirical study in literacy and numeracy would make a useful contribution to the continuing debate about student achievement. Thus, a study was…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Assessment

Afrassa, Tilahun Mengesha – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1995
The national examination systems of Ethiopia and South Australia are compared with an eye toward identifying problems in the Ethiopian system. Authentic assessment, which has never been a part of the examination system of Ethiopia, should be introduced along with other innovations patterned on the Australian system. (SLD)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Developing Nations, Educational Assessment

McMeniman, Marilyn – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1990
The development and validation of a weighted index capable of discriminating among competing learner needs to allow equitable resource allocation are described. Using the Delphi technique, this national study was concerned with the needs of Australia's school-age population with non-English-speaking backgrounds. (TJH)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Individual Needs
Heyneman, Stephen P., Ed.; Fagerlind, Ingemar, Ed. – 1988
In September 1984, the Chinese government asked the Economic Development Institute of the World Bank to assist the officials of the Chinese Ministry of Education in thinking through some policy options for examinations and standardized testing. This document summarizes the descriptions of testing programs and advice provided to these Chinese…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Admission Criteria, College Admission, College Entrance Examinations