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New Mexico State Univ., Las Cruces. – 1985
Research findings on computer designed instruction and testing at the college level are discussed in 13 papers from the first Regional Conference on University Teaching at New Mexico State University. Titles and authors are as follows: "Don't Bother Me with Instructional Design, I'm Busy Programming! Suggestions for More Effective Educational…
Descriptors: Authoring Aids (Programing), Business Administration Education, Case Studies, College Instruction
1962
The first topic of the conference was creativity. Papers delivered were Knowledge and Creativity by Theodore C. Denise and Hobert W. Burns; Potentiality for Creativity and Its Measurement, by J. P. Guilford; and Some Methodological Issues in the Study of Creativity by Robert L. Thorndike. In the second session, a paper on comparability of scores…
Descriptors: Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Processes, College Entrance Examinations, Computer Oriented Programs
Download full textEducational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. – 1987
Nine papers were presented at the 1986 Educational Testing Service Invitational Conference on outcomes assessment in higher education. The Award for Distinguished Service to Measurement was awarded to Frederic Kuder for development of the Kuder-Richardson 20 and KR-21 formulas for test reliability, the Kuder Preference Record, and the Kuder…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Accreditation (Institutions), College Students
Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. – 1956
The conference theme was Testing--Then and Now, based upon the assumption that psychometrists should review their origins and look forward to their future. In the area of intelligence testing, Nancy Bayley discussed the research that re-assessed previous concepts of the nature of intellectual growth and decline. Thelma Thurstone discussed new…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Age Differences, Conceptual Schemes, Curriculum Development
Ernest, Patricia S.; And Others – 1986
These papers were presented as a symposium on the revision of the general education program at the University of Montevallo (UM) in Alabama. The first paper, "Introduction to Evaluation of General Education at the University of Montevallo," by Patricia S. Ernest and Elizabeth H. Rodgers, describes the core curriculum study and the 13…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Faculty, Core Curriculum, Curriculum Evaluation
Baker, Eva L. – 1980
In the spring of 1979, the National Institute of Education, in collaboration with the United States Office of Education, the UCLA Center for the Study of Evaluation (CSE), and members of a nation-wide network of research and development agencies, sponsored a national colloquy on the theme that testing could have an important impact in improving…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Conferences, Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Diagnosis
National Inst. of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC. – 1979
Extracts from the papers and position statements presented at the National Conference on Achievement Testing and Basic Skills are provided in an attempt to capture both the diversity and the consensus among the participants. Six sessions are summarized: (1) achievement tests and basic skills: the issues and the setting--by Harold Howe II; (2)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Achievement Tests, Basic Skills
Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. – 1963
Conference speakers reviewed and analyzed the current thinking underlying the basic concepts of test norms, reliability, and validity. Roger T. Lennon's paper called for more attention to the development of norming theory and summarized current norming practices and the establishment of a system which would permit comparable norms for tests which…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Ability, College Students, Educational Testing
Fincher, Cameron, Ed.; And Others – 1986
Higher education assessment, evaluation, and accreditation in Georgia are addressed in these proceedings of a 1986 conference sponsored by the University of Georgia and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS). Panel papers cover: assessing student performance and outcomes, academic standards and needs assessment for specific…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accreditation (Institutions), Adult Students, College Admission
Adelman, Clifford, Ed. – 1986
Emerging and traditional forms of assessment in U.S. higher education are considered in this collection of five conference papers from the 1985 National Conference on Assessment in Higher Education. Included are a foreword by Education Secretary William J. Bennett and concluding remarks by Clifford Adelman. Paper titles and authors are as follows:…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Business Administration Education, College Students
Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. – 1957
This conference focused on the broad theme, improving the quality and scope of measurement. The first session centered on improving criteria for educational and psychological measurement, with papers on Criteria for Complex Mental Processes by Robert C. Wilson and on Criteria of Nonintellectual Aspects of Personality by Morris I. Stein. The second…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Cognitive Tests, Educational Testing, Elementary Secondary Education
1976
On March 11 and 12, 1976, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), a project of the Education Commission of the States (ECS), and the Clearinghouse for Applied Performance Testing (CAPT), a project of the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL), cohosted a Minimal Competency Measurement Conference in Denver, Colorado.…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Agency Role, Basic Skills, Competency Based Education
Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. – 1954
Four major topics were discussed at the conference: application of information theory to testing; recent advances in psychometric methods; evaluating group interaction; and new developments in the education of abler students. Papers delivered were: Multiple Assignment of Persons to Jobs, by Paul S. Dwyer; New Light on Test Strategy from Decision…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Acceleration, Advanced Placement Programs, Analysis of Variance
Maryland Univ., College Park. Univ. Coll. – 1984
Eighty papers from a 1984 international conference on improving university teaching are presented. Topics include the following: predicting achievement and overcoming disadvantages for first-year students, the impact of technology on higher education, using student conceptions of learning and teaching, problems and solutions for teaching…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Administration, College Faculty, College Freshmen
Schrader, William B., Ed. – New Directions for Testing and Measurement, 1979
This conference was organized around four policy concerns: (1) the needs of handicapped, gifted, and bilingual students; (2) the use of test results to allocate federal compensatory education funds; (3) the validity of minimum competency testing; and (4) the demand for increasingly sophisticated evaluations. Garry L. McDaniels discussed the…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Accountability, Bilingual Students, Compensatory Education
