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Cooney, Joe – 1981
This volume explains the products and processes of the Entry Standards Assessment (ESA)/Basic Skills Brush Up System. The ESA/Basic Skills Brush Up Centers System is a program designed to provide Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) clients with the math, reading, and writing skills needed to take advantage of job training. Following…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives, Diagnostic Tests
Harnisch, Delwyn L. – 1985
Computer adaptive testing systems are feasible for certification and licensure testing. This is in part due to the availability of extensive yet inexpensive computers. Modern item response theory, combined with computerized adaptive testing, yields a powerful new method of testing which provides greater accuracy and efficiency and less boredom for…
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Certification, Computer Assisted Testing, Cost Effectiveness
Oen, Urban T. – 1985
This publication is part of a series of self-instructional teacher training manuals designed to assist vocational-technical educators or industrial trainers to develop and implement competency-based vocational education (CBVE) programs. The purpose stated for this manual is for the instructor to learn to construct performance and written…
Descriptors: Autoinstructional Aids, Behavioral Objectives, Competency Based Education, Competency Based Teacher Education
Download full textVarnhagen, Stanley; Calder, Peter W. – 1985
The Microcomputer Diagnostic Testing Project (MDTP) was designed to broaden the use of microcomputers in student testing, for elementary and secondary school use, and for a variety of test item formats. MDTP was designed to administer tests, to allow teachers to create or revise tests, to print out test forms when desired, to score tests, to…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Software, Educational Testing, Elementary Secondary Education
Anderson, Paul S.; Kanzler, Eileen M. – 1985
Test scores were compared for two types of objective achievement tests--multiple choice tests and the recently developed Multi-Digit Test (MDT) procedure. MDT is an approximation of the fill-in-the-blank technique. Students select their answers from long lists of alphabetized terms, with each answer corresponding to a number from 001 to 999. The…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Cloze Procedure, Comparative Testing, Computer Assisted Testing
Cheek, Jimmy G.; McGhee, Max B. – 1983
The central purpose of this study was to develop and field test written criterion-referenced tests for the ornamental horticulture component of applied principles of agribusiness and natural resources occupations programs. The test items were to be used by secondary agricultural education students in Florida. Based upon the objectives identified…
Descriptors: Agribusiness, Agricultural Education, Competence, Competency Based Education
Beard, John D., Ed.; McNabb, Scott E., Ed. – 1985
Intended for teachers, this collection of articles on testing in the English language arts contains the following titles: "What Do Test Scores 'Really' Mean in Educational Policy?" by George F. Madaus; "Testing and Literacy: A Contradiction in Terms?" by Marilyn Wilson; "Throwing in the TOWL," by Mary Jane Curry; "Taking the Authority Figure Out…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, English Instruction, English (Second Language), Language Arts
Northrop, Lois C. – 1977
The Professional and Administrative Career Examination measures judgment ability using comprehension and logical order of events item types. Since the verbal component of comprehension items is high, and since these items are extremely difficult to write and document, a search was conducted for a simpler item type for assessing judgment. Three…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Administrators, Comprehension, Decision Making Skills
Coyle, David A.; And Others – 1975
One of five supplements which accompany chapter three of "Mountain-Plains Handbook: The Design and Operation of a Residential, Family Oriented Career Education Model" (CE 014 630), this document contains specific information concerning testing procedures and forms utilized by the research services division. Included are the following…
Descriptors: Career Education, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged, Economically Disadvantaged
National Study of School Evaluation, Arlington, VA. – 1975
Teaching staff represent a powerful influence on program development. Therefore it is essential that their opinions be ascertained and analyzed in a school evaluation. The Teacher Opinion Inventory was developed to accomplish three goals: (1) to assess teacher opinion toward many facets of the school; (2) to provide teacher recommendations for…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Educational Facilities Improvement, Elementary Schools, Elementary Secondary Education
Brekke, Milo L. – 1976
The Assessment of Readiness for the Professional Practice of Ministry project, sponsored by the Association of Theological Schools, studied methods for determining a person's readiness to enter the mimtry and perform effectively. Simultaneously, the Lutheran Seminarian Project assessed the needs and strengths of beginning seminary students. Both…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Clergy, Cluster Analysis, Criterion Referenced Tests
Backman, Margaret E. – 1974
For decades there have been attempts to develop tests that are fair to people from different backgrounds. The Fundamental Achievement Series (FAS) is a recent attempt to develop a test that is fair to those considered disadvantaged. In addition to the traditional kinds of items, the FAS incorporates relevant items, tapping verbal and numerical…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Adult Basic Education, Adults, Basic Skills
Cyrs, Thomas E., Jr., Ed. – 1977
New instructional procedures for the competency-based curriculum for pharmacy education are examined by educators. The evolution of the competency-based program at the College of Pharmacy at the University of Minnesota is described, and information is presented concerning the classroom instructional model, the development of performance…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Clinical Experience, Competency Based Education, Copyrights
Snyder, Barbara, Ed. – 1982
The first issue of the Yearbook of the Ohio Modern Language Teachers Association presents the following articles and features: (1) "PR and the Language Program," by Nancy Humbach; (2) "Creative Play in Language Learning," by Carolann DeSelms; (3) "Foreign Language Projects for the Gifted Student," by Carol L. McKay and Martin D. McKay; (4) "A…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Rickard, Patricia L.; And Others – 1981
This report summarizes the 1980-81 activities of the California Adult Student Assessment Systems (CASAS) Project, which involved the San Diego Community College District and other California districts in a consortial effort to devise competency-based assessment materials to: (1) place adults in appropriate levels of Adult Basic Education (ABE),…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Students, Behavioral Objectives, Community Colleges
