This presentation will demonstrate the uses of SAM 2003 from Course Technology as a skills assessment and training software that is used via the Internet. Historically, testing in computer education has taken the form of pencil and paper or standardized testing. The actual computer skills of the student have not been properly assessed. With SAM,…

This paper presents a model of testing and assessment that has the potential to address the concerns of critics of standardized testing. The model differs from the traditional approach in several ways including, how it views human nature and the test taker; the purpose of testing; the testing process; the outcomes of testing; and who makes testing…

The military offers education, training, and employment to novices to the workforce, our nations youth. The military continues to be a trailblazer with regard to testing and human resource assessment. The author maintains that no compendium on career counseling would be complete without mentioning the military. This chapter provides a condensed…

The single, most important use of evaluation in education is in adapting instruction to differing pupil needs. Evaluation can be used to find the pupil's level of aptitude and from this to design learning experiences for his particular needs. (DS)

Positive support for the system of open-book examination is presented. A case study of an open-book examination in organic chemistry is cited as a basis for theories that testing method improves capacity for analyzing and solving problems, deepens knowledge, and helps to overcome shortcomings of casual readings. (SM)

A new system of testing and evaluation is devised by the Department of Chemistry at Kirin University in order to help students to better consolidate and deepen acquired theoretical knowledge and skills. Guidelines for grading of examinations are established. (SM)

This study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of a motivation and time-study course in reducing test anxiety. These results suggest that a motivation and time-study course, when offered in an academic context, can be an effective change agent for test-anxious academic low achievers. (Author)

Tests and measurement have fallen short of the contributions to counseling expected of them. The writer takes the position that inadequacies of both the tests and counselors are responsible and that major changes are needed if tests are to continue to have a place in the counseling process. (Author)

Study suggests that the level of performance may depend on the capacity (increasing with age) of the short-term memory store. (Editor)

In response to discussions by W. Mischel and by D. D. McClelland, attention is invited to the desirability of explicitly identifying general circumstances under which indirect assessment is superior to direct methods for assessing the same trait. (Author)

The findings of this replication confirm previous evidence that test proximity alone eventually accomplishes what counseling does not do at all and grade feedback does too late; it reduces unwarranted academic optimism with respect to a given test. (Author)

The results reported here indicate that children's behaviour when responding to test demands can be fairly reliably described by the method adopted in this study, and that there is a substantial consistency in the behavioural styles so described over a period of time. (Author)