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Direct linkVossler, Victoria L. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The attrition of special education teachers greatly affects the quality of special education services districts can provide for students with disabilities and creates an ongoing challenge for educational leaders. It is essential to understand the factors influencing special education teachers' decisions to leave or remain in the field. If…
Descriptors: Teacher Persistence, Special Education Teachers, Special Education, Field Tests
Vale, C. David – 1985
The goal of this project was to develop an inexpensive, self-contained system of hardware and software to support the development, administration, and evaluation of computerized adaptive tests. Toward that goal, commercial hardware was selected and a comprehensive software called the MicroCAT Testing System was developed. The MicroCAT system was…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Networks, Computer Software
Download full textBock, R. Darrell; Zimowski, Michele F. – 2003
This paper discusses the rationale for enhancing the current National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) design by adding a capacity for adaptive testing. Items are tailored to the achievement level of the student in adaptive testing. The report describes a 1993 Ohio field trail of two-stage assessment carried out by the National Opinion…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Elementary Secondary Education, Field Tests
Peer reviewedWard, William C. – Machine-Mediated Learning, 1988
Concepts of adaptive testing and the related measurement model, item response theory, are introduced and benefits and limitations are outlined. Field tests with over 2,500 students illustrate the use of adaptive tests in college placement. Some future directions for computerized adaptive testing are considered. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, College Entrance Examinations, College Freshmen, Computer Assisted Testing
Ebmeier, Howard; Ng, Jennifer – Journal of Personnel Evaluation in Education, 2005
Employment interviews are widely used in the selection of quality teachers, and indeed research confirms administrators' belief in the validity of the procedure. However, many key recommendations for improving the general reliability of interviews including selecting questions that are job-related and research grounded, including well designed…
Descriptors: Field Tests, Teacher Selection, Urban Schools, Employment Interviews
Bobek, Becky L.; Gore, Paul A. – American College Testing (ACT), Inc., 2004
This research report describes changes made to the Inventory of Work-Relevant Values when it was revised for online use as a part of the Internet version of DISCOVER. Users will see the following differences between the online and CD-ROM versions of the inventory: 22 items rather than 61, simplified presentation, and the contribution of all items…
Descriptors: Interrater Reliability, Field Tests, Internet, Test Construction
Peterson, Norman G., Ed. – 1987
As part of the United States Army's Project A, research has been conducted to develop and field test a battery of experimental tests to complement the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery in predicting soldiers' job performance. Project A is the United States Army's large-scale manpower effort to improve selection, classification, and…
Descriptors: Biographical Inventories, Classification, Cognitive Measurement, Computer Assisted Testing
