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Mitchell, Alison C. – Programmed Learning and Educational Technology, 1982
Describes a Scottish project--"School-based assessment using item banking"--investigating the feasibility of producing computer-based test marking and reporting facilities. Teachers would construct their own tests from item banks and carry out diagnostic assessment and criterion-referenced measurement to evaluate students with SCRIBE, a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Programs, Criterion Referenced Tests
Dywer, Francis M.; Parkhurst, Perrin E. – Programmed Learning and Educational Technology, 1982
Describes an experiment with 332 students enrolled in an instructional media course at Pennsylvania State University which evaluated the instructional effectiveness of self-paced instruction when units were accompanied by visual aids differing in amounts of realistic detail and the relationship to a student's reading comprehension level. Nineteen…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Media, Factor Analysis
Dwyer, Carol A.; Dwyer, Francis M. – Programmed Learning and Educational Technology, 1987
Reviews study of undergraduates which evaluated the effects that variations in depth of information processing have on students' memory systems in terms of their ability to acquire and retrieve information related to different types of instructional objectives. The effect of visual versus verbal testing of visualized instruction is also examined.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Analysis of Variance, Cognitive Processes, Criterion Referenced Tests
