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Direct linkShamir, Haya – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2018
Assessing students' emerging literacy skills is crucial for identifying areas where a child may be falling behind and can lead directly to an increased chance of reading success. The Waterford Assessment of Core Skills (WACS), a computerized adaptive test of early literacy for students in prekindergarten through 2nd grade, addresses this need.…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Adaptive Testing, Reading Tests, Preschool Children
Mann, Wolfgang; Roy, Penny; Morgan, Gary – Language Testing, 2016
This study describes the adaptation process of a vocabulary knowledge test for British Sign Language (BSL) into American Sign Language (ASL) and presents results from the first round of pilot testing with 20 deaf native ASL signers. The web-based test assesses the strength of deaf children's vocabulary knowledge by means of different mappings of…
Descriptors: Deafness, Language Skills, Vocabulary Development, American Sign Language
Vannest, Kimberly J.; Parker, Richard; Dyer, Nicole – Journal of Special Education, 2011
This article presents procedures and results from a 2-year project developing science key vocabulary (KV) short tests suitable for progress monitoring Grade 5 science in Texas public schools using computer-generated, -administered, and -scored assessments. KV items included KV definitions and important usages in a multiple-choice cloze format. A…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Low Achievement, Vocabulary, Science Tests
Patton, Jan; Steffee, John – 1990
This document provides printed instructions for teachers to use with an IBM-compatible microcomputer to construct tests and then have the computer give the tests, grade them, and print the test results. Computerized tests constructed in this way may contain true-false questions, multiple-choice questions, or a combination of both. The questions…
Descriptors: Business Education, Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education
Patton, Jan; Murray, Darlena – 1991
The first of two documents provides realistic simulated business activities that are coordinated with the curriculum guide for business office clerical/business office services courses. Simulations are included for five sections of the curriculum: word processing/proofreading, filing/data entry, desktop publishing, calculating machines, and…
Descriptors: Business Education, Clerical Occupations, Communication Skills, Competence
Patton, Jan; Murray, Darlena – 1991
This document consists of a curriculum guide combined with separately published "Simulations" and "Test Bank" volumes designed to support instructors using the curriculum guide. The curriculum guide for "business computer applications I" provides office education instructors with detailed units of instruction…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Graphics
