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Mason, Victor W.; And Others – 1991
Kuwait University initially developed a new English placement test for students to help upgrade English language instruction throughout the country's educational system, through diagnosis of relative English proficiency levels of all secondary school graduates, determination of suitable admissions criteria for all higher education institutions,…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Leuba, Richard J. – Engineering Education, 1986
Promotes the use of machine-scored tests in basic engineering science classes. Discusses some principles and practices of machine-scored testing. Provides several example test items. Argues that such tests can be used to enhance basic understanding of concepts and problem solving skills. (TW)
Descriptors: Automation, College Science, Engineering Education, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedFeak, Christine; Dobson, Barbara – College ESL, 1996
Focuses on the assessment of writing skills of incoming English-as-a-Second-Language college students in the United States and Canada. The article discusses the traditional impromptu essay and its alternatives, portfolio assessment and the Undergraduate Academic Writing Assessment (UAWA). The UAWA reveals students' previously unknown strengths and…
Descriptors: College Students, Curriculum Design, English for Academic Purposes, Essays
Peer reviewedNunnally, Marguerite – Science Teacher, 1989
Discusses teachers' responses to a survey on teacher competency testing. Describes Georgia's competency test and its results. Investigates the use of classroom performance as a test factor. Presents Georgia's test development process. (MLV)
Descriptors: Competency Based Teacher Education, Faculty Evaluation, Science Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
Salvi, Rita – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1991
Discusses the process of developing a communicative reading/writing test based on authentic materials for university students in economics, political science, or law who are nonnative English speakers. (27 references) (CFM)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language), English for Special Purposes, Higher Education
Walker, David – Diagnostique, 1999
This article describes the Behavior Assessment System for Children, a multimethod, multidimensional approach to evaluating the behaviors and self-perceptions of children ages 2.6 to 18 years. The BASC contains a Teacher Rating Scale, a Parent Rating Scale, and a Child Self-Report of Personality. Its administration, reliability, and validity are…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Disorders, Behavior Rating Scales, Children
Ashton, Tamarah M. – Diagnostique, 1999
This article describes the Comprehensive Assessment of Reading Strategies, a six-level diagnostic series for evaluating mastery of 12 reading strategies at each level by students in grades 3 through 8, as well as allowing for their metacognitive self-assessment. Its administration, standardization; reliability, and validity are discussed.…
Descriptors: Disability Identification, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Ability, Reading Difficulties
Download full textScalise, Kathleen; Gifford, Bernard – Journal of Technology, Learning, and Assessment, 2006
Technology today offers many new opportunities for innovation in educational assessment through rich new assessment tasks and potentially powerful scoring, reporting and real-time feedback mechanisms. One potential limitation for realizing the benefits of computer-based assessment in both instructional assessment and large scale testing comes in…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Educational Assessment, Information Technology, Classification
Morrow, Keith – 1983
The oral interaction examination used by Britain's Royal Society of Arts for testing communicative use of English as a foreign language is described. The underlying principles of the test, its structure, administration, issues of reliability and validity, and scoring are outlined. Three components of the test itself are included. One component is…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Maday, John – 1985
A project was conducted in Florida between October 1, 1984, and August 31, 1985, to develop and field test criterion-referenced tests in the occupational areas of gardening/groundskeeping and landscape operations. The test instruments were constructed around the performance standards developed by the Florida Department of Vocational Education.…
Descriptors: Competence, Competency Based Education, Criterion Referenced Tests, Field Tests
Small, Larry – 1988
The goal of this monograph is to explain the evaluation program designed by Schaumburg Community Consolidated District 54, Schaumberg, Illinois. It discusses the process used in the development of the model, the product, the implication for classroom teachers and the effects of using an evaluation to assess science process skills. The process…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science, Evaluation
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Student Evaluation and Data Processing Branch. – 1987
A bulletin concerning Alberta's Grade 6 French language achievement test to be administered in June 1988 provides specific information about the test's design, items, and scoring. It begins with general information about the province's achievement test program in English and goes on to describe and illustrate the French language arts achievement…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Cognitive Measurement, Evaluation Criteria, Foreign Countries
Abramson, Theodore; Banchick, Gail – 1979
The Instructional Support System for Occupational Education (ISSOE), developed in New York during the past five years, consists of a student-outcome-oriented curriculum that is locally developed and implemented by teachers. The teachers who have been using the ISSOE materials have indicated some difficulty in implementing the system because of the…
Descriptors: Competence, Competency Based Education, Criterion Referenced Tests, Individualized Instruction
Peer reviewedLarson, Jerry W. – ADFL Bulletin, 1987
Describes advantages and disadvantages of computer-assisted foreign language testing, including unique capabilities of the computer, types of tests possible, limitations, problems, and language skill testing. The Spanish Computer Adaptive Placement Examination, developed at Brigham Young University (Utah), is described. (CB)
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, Computer Assisted Testing, Higher Education, Item Banks
Ross, Susan M.; Straus, Murray A. – 1997
The Social Integration Scale (SIS) is intended to facilitate empirical research on the applicability of control theory to many types of adult crime, including "street crime," white collar crime, and physical assaults on spouses. There are five subscales: (1) belief (belief in law and social control); (2) commitment (psychological…
Descriptors: Adults, Beliefs, College Students, Crime
