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South Carolina State Dept. of Education, Columbia. Office of Vocational Education. – 1981
This document consists of the student manual for a course in retail flower shop sales and floral design for use in vocational education courses in high schools in South Carolina. The guide consists of 22 learning modules that incorporate the subject matter needed by workers in these jobs. Each learning module consists of an introduction,…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Course Content, Floriculture, High Schools
South Carolina State Dept. of Education, Columbia. Office of Vocational Education. – 1981
This document is the instructor's manual for a course in retail flower shop sales and floral design for use in vocational education courses in high schools in South Carolina. The manual consists primarily of instructor's guides to the 22 learning modules contained in the student manual, which provide the subject matter needed by workers in these…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Course Content, Floriculture, High Schools
Download full textRudner, Lawrence M. – 1978
Tailored testing provides the same information as group-administered standardized tests, but can do so using fewer items because the items administered are selected for the ability of the individual student. Thus, tailored testing offers several advantages over traditional methods. Because individual tailored tests are not timed, anxiety is…
Descriptors: Ability, Adaptive Testing, Bayesian Statistics, Computer Assisted Testing
Gustafsson, Jan-Eric – 1979
Problems and procedures in assessing and obtaining fit of data to the Rasch model are treated and assumptions embodied in the Rasch model are made explicit. It is concluded that statistical tests are needed which are sensitive to deviations so that more than one item parameter would be needed for each item, and more than one person parameter would…
Descriptors: Ability, Difficulty Level, Goodness of Fit, Item Analysis
Instructional Objectives Exchange, Los Angeles, CA. – 1968
Thirty-seven objectives and related test items for business law courses taught in grades 10 through 12 are organized into the following categories: (1) foundations of law; (2) law of contracts, property, and negotiable instruments; (3) business relations and business organizations; and (4) vocabulary. Each objective contains three elements: the…
Descriptors: Business Education, Course Objectives, Curriculum Guides, Educational Objectives
Finch, F. L. – 1978
To consolidate the diversity of opinion about the definition of competency, an operational definition and skills classification matrix is presented. Although most people agree that competency tests should measure student ability to transfer academic training to life situations, the fact that life skills and school skills represent different…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Classification, Competency Based Education, Educational Problems
McKee, Barbara G.; Hausknecht, Michael A. – 1978
Literature on the development of classroom achievement tests for high school and college level hearing impaired students is reviewed, with emphasis on achievement tests designed to ascertain whether a particular unit of instruction has been understood as it was presented. The paper reviews: the syntactical structure and vocabulary of test items;…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Hearing Impairments, Higher Education, Item Analysis
Okey, James R.; And Others – 1978
The five instruments and the procedures in this manual were designed to assess teaching competencies selected for the Georgia department of education. The system, designed to assess teaching competence in an on-the-job setting included the following steps: (1) identifying desirable teaching competencies; (2) identifying behaviors that correspond…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Performance Factors
Johnson, Dale D.; And Others – 1978
To evaluate the performance of elementary school children on various paradigms for assessing vocabulary knowledge on-line, three studies were conducted. In the first, 173 second through eighth grade students were involved in an investigation of five approaches to vocabulary assessment: synonym in context, synonym out of context, cloze, oral…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Computer Assisted Instruction, Context Clues, Educational Diagnosis
Walsh, James A.; And Others – 1979
An attempt was made to examine authoritarian and non-authoritarian scales of social attitudes and their reversals as a function of: (1) content consistency; (2) acquiescence; and (3) a tendency to use extreme categories of response. The study questioned whether Adorno's fascism (F), dogmatism (D), ethnocentrism (E), and anti-Semitism (A-S) scales…
Descriptors: Adults, Anti Semitism, Authoritarianism, Dogmatism
Broadbent, William A. – 1979
Recommendations for the improvement of the diesel engine and truck components of the Hawaii state certification examination for automobile and truck mechanics were solicited from 14 major private businesses repairing heavy tractor rigs and/or diesel engines on Oahu and a statewide sample of 21 trucking firms and other companies making extensive…
Descriptors: Auto Body Repairers, Auto Mechanics, Certification, Diesel Engines
Virginia State Dept. of Education, Richmond. – 1980
This monograph explains the need for graduating high school seniors to demonstrate minimum competence in citizenship and suggests performance-related assessment tasks to help school authorities determine whether these competency requirements have been met. Minimum citizenship competencies are interpreted to include essential skills and concepts…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Citizenship Education, Competency Based Education, Educational Assessment
Smith, Richard M.; Mitchell, Virginia P. – 1980
To analyze test item and person interactions according to the Rasch Model, 822 incoming community college freshman were administered the New Jersey Basic Skills Placement Test. The Logical Relationships and Elementary Algebra subtests were chosen to examine the effect of differing average item difficulty on descriptions of fit statistics and on…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Computer Oriented Programs, Difficulty Level, Goodness of Fit
Byars, Alvin Gregg – 1980
The objectives of this investigation are to develop, describe, assess, and demonstrate procedures for constructing mastery tests to minimize errors of classification and to maximize decision reliability. The guidelines are based on conditions where item exchangeability is a reasonable assumption and the test constructor can control the number of…
Descriptors: Cutting Scores, Difficulty Level, Grade 4, Intermediate Grades
Rock, D. A.; And Others – 1980
An experiment was designed that varied cutting score procedures, instructions, and types of judges in order to address the following questions concerning the Real Estate Licensing Examination: (1) Will the cutting score levels produced by groups of judges from differing backgrounds (academicians vs. practitioners vs. lawyers) using the same method…
Descriptors: Competence, Content Analysis, Criterion Referenced Tests, Cutting Scores
