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Download full textGED Testing Service, 2016
This guide is designed to help adult educators and administrators better understand the content of the GED® test. This guide is tailored to each test subject and highlights the test's item types, assessment targets, and guidelines for how items will be scored. This 2016 edition has been updated to include the most recent information about the…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Teaching Guides, High School Equivalency Programs, Test Items
Peer reviewedKon, Jane Heckley; Martin-Kniep, Giselle O. – Social Education, 1992
Describes a case study to determine whether performance tests are a feasible alternative to multiple-choice tests. Examines the difficulties of administering and scoring performance assessments. Explains that the study employed three performance tests and one multiple-choice test. Concludes that performance test administration and scoring was no…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Educational Research, Educational Testing, Geography Instruction
Haladyna, Thomas M. – 1997
This guide is designed to help teachers create test items that measure a variety of higher level thinking abilities. Part One, "Foundations for Item Writing," provides a context for item writing. Chapter 1 provides an overview of the book and defines basic concepts, principles, and terminology. Chapter 2 integrates research literature to…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Classification, Evaluation Methods
Davis, Alan – 1992
The dominant issues in considering the use of tests developed outside the classroom to measure the impact of curriculum reform on higher order thinking are reviewed by a panel interviewed for this discussion. Panel members are: (1) Stuart Kahl, (2) Robert Linn, (3) Senta A. Raizen, (4) Lauren Resnick, and (5) Thomas A. Romberg. It is conceded…
Descriptors: Accountability, Curriculum Development, Educational Assessment, Educational Change
Smith, Jeffrey K.; Smith, Lisa F.; De Lisi, Richard – 2001
This book provides a practical approach to using and developing performance assessments. There are 13 chapters: (1) "Determining Goals, Targets, and Objectives" (what students should be able to do as a result of being in the class); (2) "How Will Assessment Be Used?" (how assessment can help or hinder the instructional process…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Essay Tests, Evaluation Methods, Multiple Choice Tests
Pandey, Tej; Smith, Theodore R., Ed. – 1991
The California Assessment Program (CAP) administers tests to all public school students at certain grade levels, compiles the results, and provides information that allows educators to judge the effectiveness of their programs and make improvements. This sampler describes the types of assessment that CAP proposes to respond to the needed changes…
Descriptors: Discovery Learning, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
McColskey, Wendy; O'Sullivan, Rita – 1993
The purpose of this manual is to encourage discussions among science teachers about desired student outcomes in science and assessments appropriate to these outcomes. Once teachers know clearly what they hope to accomplish with their students, choosing appropriate assessment measures follows. Assessment methods described center on observing…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
