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Download full textMcCray, Paul – 1979
The purpose of this document is to help vocational evaluators understand (1) how the concepts of learning and performance relate to vocational evaluation; (2) why learning assessment is important; and (3) how it may be incorporated into work sample testing. The text is divided into three parts. Part 1 defines the learning assessment process. Part…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Guidelines, Instructional Development, Job Placement
Cockrell, John T. – 1978
As part of an effort to provide more economical methods for job-skill evaluation in the Army Enlisted Personnel Management System, a study investigated the use of television as a means of presenting test items for a sample of tests from the job field of tank crewman. The television scene provided the job setting for each item and then posed a…
Descriptors: Enlisted Personnel, Feasibility Studies, Job Skills, Performance Tests
Backman, Margaret E.; And Others – 1975
Test takers' preferences for group versus individual administration of the Micro-TOWER System of Vocational Evaluation are reported. The system was administered to 211 clients at a vocational rehabilitation center, and consisted of work samples measuring the following job skills: record checking, filing, lamp assembly, message-taking, zip coding,…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Group Testing, Individual Testing, Occupational Tests
Peer reviewedHalpern, Andrew S. – Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 1978
Discussed in relation to career education for handicapped students are advantages and disadvantages of four types of measurement: applied performance testing, criterion validity studies, product vs. process measurement, and criterion vs. norm-referenced measurement. Available from: Division on Career Development, The Council for Exceptional…
Descriptors: Career Education, Criterion Referenced Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Backman, Margaret E. – 1977
Traditionally, most rehabilitation centers have evaluated a clients' vocational skills on an individual basis. Individually administered work samples, however, may not provide as much individual attention to the assessment process as is usually assumed. Two types of group work sample evaluation systems have been developed: the Valpar Work Sample…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Administrative Problems, Change Strategies, Cost Effectiveness
Backman, Margaret E. – 1977
The Micro-TOWER System of Vocational Evaluation was developed in response to the need for a revision of the TOWER (Testing, Orientation, and Work Evaluation in Rehabilitation) System. The Micro-TOWER system of work sample tests measures the major aptitudes required for most semi-skilled and unskilled occupations. It may be used as a screening…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Aptitude Tests, Clerical Occupations
