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Badgett, John L.; Christmann, Edwin P. – Corwin, 2009
While today's curriculum is largely driven by standards, many teachers find the lack of specificity in the standards to be confounding and even intimidating. Now this practical book provides middle and high school teachers with explicit guidance on designing specific objectives and developing appropriate formative and summative assessments to…
Descriptors: Test Items, Student Evaluation, Knowledge Level, National Standards
Lang, Robert M. – 1983
In this practical, easy-to-use guide, suggestions are made for setting educational objectives and preparing a teacher-made test. Specific suggestions are made for selecting items for essay tests, multiple choice tests, completion tests, matching tests, and true-false tests. (BW)
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Essay Tests, Guidelines, Multiple Choice Tests
Sparzo, Frank J. – 1990
This fastback concentrates on writing technically correct test items that are compatible with the teacher's instructional objectives. The introductory chapter touches on some of the problems associated with preparing classroom tests. The second chapter outlines five steps in preparing a test according to the "Plan-Write" System: (1) prepare a…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Essay Tests, Objective Tests
NELSON, CLARENCE H. – 1967
DISCUSSED ARE SELECTED FACTORS RELATED TO IMPROVING SCIENCE TESTS. SECTION 1 DEALS WITH (1) THE ROLE OF OBJECTIVES IN SCIENCE TEACHING AND TESTING, (2) THE ROLE OF TESTS AND TESTING, (3) FORMS AND KINDS OF TESTS, AND (4) GUIDEPOSTS FOR PREPARING TESTS. SECTION 2 DISCUSSES METHODS OF TESTING FOR SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES AT VARIOUS GRADE LEVELS. INCLUDED…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, College Science, Educational Objectives, Elementary School Science
Ministerio de Educacion, Guatemala City (Guatemala). Direccion de Bienestar Estudiantil y Educacion Especial. – 1971
This booklet presents specification tables illustrating the relative importance given to topics on tests within a particular subject area. The general subject areas are social studies, Spanish, mathematics, and natural sciences. Tables are provided for final exams in each of these areas for several primary grades, illustrating the importance of…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Evaluation Methods, Guidelines, International Education
Vernon, Philip E. – 1964
The advantages and disadvantages of the objective-type tests considered for use in Britain for the Certificate of Secondary Education are presented. The objective test is a form of examination in which every question is set in such a way as to have only one right answer. Of the four types of assessment, objective, conventional written (or oral),…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Bulletins, Educational Objectives
Klein, Stephen P. – 1972
Three distinctions are usually made between norm- and criterion-referenced measures. They are: (1) their measurement forms, that is, student performance in relation to the performance of other students or with respect to some specific criterion; (2) general or specific kinds of objectives in which the measures are founded; and (3) their modes of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aristotelian Criticism, Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Objectives
Donovan, David; And Others – 1972
The objectives of the Michigan Educational Assessment Program for 1972-73 are: (1) to provide State officials and citizens with information which contributes to an understanding of the educational needs of the State's school children and to the analysis of the educational system's response to these needs; (2) to provide citizens and educators with…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Educational Improvement
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Frisbie, David A.; And Others – Applied Measurement in Education, 1993
The nature and quality of chapter-end tests accompanying social studies and science textbooks used in elementary school and middle school grades were studied through reviews by 3 judges of 91 tests. Identified shortcomings lead to the recommendation that these tests not be used intact in classroom assessment. (SLD)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Content Analysis, Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives
Benevento, Jacqueline – Modern Language Notes, 1968
The article initially treats the difference between measurement (quantitative) and evaluation (qualitative) and explains the essentials for meaningful evaluation as being clearly defined course objectives, teaching methods, and testing procedures. The educational objectives in the "Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, Cognitive Domain"…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Objectives, Educational Testing, Essay Tests
Wu, Margaret; Donovan, Jenny; Hutton, Penny; Lennon, Melissa – Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (NJ1), 2008
In July 2001, the Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (MCEETYA) agreed to the development of assessment instruments and key performance measures for reporting on student skills, knowledge and understandings in primary science. It directed the newly established Performance Measurement and Reporting Taskforce…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scientific Literacy, Science Achievement, Comparative Analysis