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Astin, Alexander W.; And Others – 1988
Three presentations from the Third National Conference on Assessment in Higher Education are included. In "Assessment and Human Values: Confessions of a Reformed Number Cruncher," Alexander W. Astin, focuses on measuring education productivity, assessment lessons from the Cooperative Institutional Research Program, a talent-development…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Assessment, Higher Education, Incentives
McLarty, Joyce R. – 1987
The evaluation instruments used in the Tennessee Career Ladder program are described, and their evolution over the first three years of program implementation is traced. The instruments are designed to measure teacher performance and to determine outstanding teachers. They include: the Career Ladder Test of Professional Skills (a multiple-choice…
Descriptors: Career Ladders, Classroom Observation Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Interviews
Melancon, Janet G.; Thompson, Bruce – 1988
Applied classical measurement theory was used to study the measurement characteristics of Forms A and B of the Finding Embedded Figures Test (FEFT) when the test is administered in a "no-guessing" or "supply" format. Data provided by 69 students at a private university in the southern United States were used. Both forms of the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Difficulty Level, Discriminant Analysis, Guessing (Tests)
Case, Susan M. – 1988
This study was designed to gather data on the meaning of imprecise terms from items written by physicians for their students and by test committees for national licensure and certification examinations. A total of 32 members of test committees who write examination items for various medical specialty examinations participated in the study. Each…
Descriptors: Definitions, Higher Education, Item Analysis, Licensing Examinations (Professions)
Heckler, Edward E. – 1985
The acquisition of the passive sentence structure by 36 adult learners of English as a second language (ESL) was studied. Twelve learners each spoke Arabic, Japanese, and Spanish as their native language. For each language group, four were beginners, four intermediates, and four advanced learners of English. All were studying English at the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Arabic, College Students, English (Second Language)
Dodd, Alan; Shaughnessy, Michael F. – 1987
This study evaluated the acquisition of study skills in high-risk college freshmen enrolled in a developmental course, "Introduction to University Studies." The construction of the 30-item multiple choice instrument was described. The test reflected the objectives of the course, covering traditional study skill topics such as…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Course Evaluation, Higher Education, Knowledge Level
Bachman, Lyle F. – 1985
A theoretical framework that distinguishes the knowledge, or competence, aspect of language proficiency from the skills aspect is outlined, and the factors in the language testing situation that affect performance on language tests are examined. The model is intended for use in assessing the construct validity of tests of language proficiency and…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis, Evaluation Criteria
Commons, C., Ed.; Martin, P., Ed. – 1982
Volume 1 of the Australian Chemistry Test Item Bank, consisting of two volumes, contains nearly 2000 multiple-choice items related to the chemistry taught in Year 11 and Year 12 courses in Australia. Items which were written during 1979 and 1980 were initially published in the "ACER Chemistry Test Item Collection" and in the "ACER…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Foreign Countries, Grade 11, Grade 12
Commons, C., Ed.; Martin, P., Ed. – 1982
The second volume of the Australian Chemistry Test Item Bank, consisting of two volumes, contains nearly 2000 multiple-choice items related to the chemistry taught in Year 11 and Year 12 courses in Australia. Items which were written during 1979 and 1980 were initially published in the "ACER Chemistry Test Item Collection" and in the…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Foreign Countries, Grade 11, Grade 12
Choppin, Bruce – 1982
The answer-until-correct procedure has made comparatively little impact on the field of educational testing due to the absence of a sound theoretical base for turning the response data into measures. Three new latent trait models are described. They differ in their complexity, though each is designed to yield a single parameter to measure student…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Programs, Educational Testing
Shaha, Steven H. – 1982
Traditionally, matching test formats have been avoided in favor of multiple-choice items for several reasons, including item analysis properties and chance performance characteristics. In the light of research on test format and anxiety, this study postulates that, if a matching test could assess knowledge for a given topic as effectively as an…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Multiple Choice Tests, Objective Tests, Response Style (Tests)
Kuntz, Patricia – 1982
The quality of mathematics multiple choice items and their susceptibility to test wiseness were examined. Test wiseness was defined as "a subject's capacity to utilize the characteristics and formats of the test and/or test taking situation to receive a high score." The study used results of the Graduate Record Examinations Aptitude Test (GRE) and…
Descriptors: Cues, Item Analysis, Multiple Choice Tests, Psychometrics
Wilcox, Rand R. – 1982
This document contains three papers from the Methodology Project of the Center for the Study of Evaluation. Methods for characterizing test accuracy are reported in the first two papers. "Bounds on the K Out of N Reliability of a Test, and an Exact Test for Hierarchically Related Items" describes and illustrates how an extension of a…
Descriptors: Educational Testing, Evaluation Methods, Guessing (Tests), Latent Trait Theory
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Div. of Research. – 1977
The "Test Development Notebook" is a resource designed for the preparation of tests of literal comprehension for students in grades 1 through 12. This volume contains 100 multiple-choice cloze exercises taken from test instructions, instructional magazines, encyclopedias, reference books, and children's magazines; and the accompanying answer key.…
Descriptors: Answer Keys, Cloze Procedure, Difficulty Level, Elementary Secondary Education
New York State Education Dept., Albany. – 1982
The Home Health Assisting (HHA) program was developed specifically for use by educational agencies which offer a program in HHA upon approval granted by New York State Education Department through the Joint State Agency review and approval process. It is designed to prepare adults for work in the home under supervision of a health-care agency. A…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Evaluation Methods
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