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Development of Entry-Level Competence Tests: A Strategy for Evaluation of Vocational Education Training Systems
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Schutte, Marc; Spottl, Georg – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2011
Developing countries such as Malaysia and Oman have recently established occupational standards based on core work processes (functional clusters of work objects, activities and performance requirements), to which competencies (performance determinants) can be linked. While the development of work-process-based occupational standards is supposed…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Field Tests, Foreign Countries, Labor Force Development
Teachers' Attitudes toward Reporting Child Sexual Abuse: Problems with Existing Research Leading to New Scale Development
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Walsh, Kerryann; Rassafiani, Mehdi; Mathews, Ben; Farrell, Ann; Butler, Des – Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2010
This paper details a systematic literature review identifying problems in extant research relating to teachers' attitudes toward reporting child sexual abuse and offers a model for new attitude scale development and testing. Scale development comprised a five-phase process grounded in contemporary attitude theories, including (a) developing the…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Child Abuse, Focus Groups, Content Validity
The Development of a Computer Literacy Assessment Instrument.
Torardi, Mary Montag – 1985
This report describes the procedures used to construct and validate the Standardized Test of Computer Literacy (STCL), a criterion-referenced instrument designed to assess students' computer literacy. Following a statement of the study problem and purpose, a description of the study methodology outlines the use of a 12-step model for development…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Competence, Computer Literacy, Computer Science Education
Wisconsin Student Assessment System Performance Assessment Sampler. Bulletin No. 95210.
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Wisconsin State Dept. of Public Instruction, Madison. – 1995
The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction has contracted with the Wisconsin Center for Education Research to develop and field test performance assessments in mathematics, language arts, and science. Together with a Wisconsin-developed knowledge and concepts test, the new performance assessments will provide important information about the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education
The 1993 NAEP Science Field Test: Hands-On Tasks and Test Specifications.
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O'Sullivan, Christine – 1995
The framework and specifications for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) science assessment were developed in 1991-92 and field tested in 1993. The assessment was postponed, however, and will be administered in 1996. The framework calls for performance-based tasks that probe students' abilities to use materials to make…
Descriptors: Constructed Response, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Field Tests
O*NET Final Technical Report. Volume I [and] Volume II [and] Volume III.
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Peterson, Norman G.; Mumford, Michael D.; Borman, Walter C.; Jeanneret, P. Richard; Fleishman, Edwin A.; Levin, Kerry Y. – 1997
This document contains the three volumes of the technical report for development of the prototype of the Occupational Information Network (O*NET), which is intended to replace the "Dictionary of Occupational Titles.""General Introduction" (Norman G. Peterson) presents an overview of O*NET's purpose, content, and structure.…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Education, Career Exploration, Career Information Systems