Background: National curriculum assessment (NCA) in England has been in place for nearly 20 years. It has its origins in a political desire to regulate education, holding schools accountable. However, its form and nature also reflect educational and curriculum concerns and technical assessment issues. Purpose: The aim of the article is to provide…

Over the past several decades, a wider range of assessment strategies has gained prominence in classrooms, including complex assessment items such as individual or group projects, student journals and other creative writing tasks, graphic/artistic representations of knowledge, clinical interviews, student presentations and performances, peer- and…

This paper discusses a variety of development strategies and issues involved in the development of electronic performance support systems (EPSS) for professionals. The topics of front-end analysis, development, and evaluation are explored in the context of a case study involving the development of an EPSS to support teachers in the use of…

Evaluations of both individual and group therapies have yielded equivocal results. The results of this study indicate that the proportion of variance contributed by pretesting is influenced by group membership, treatment, and outcome criterion and is largely unpredictable. (Author)

The paper describes the development and use of a General Evaluation Matrix (GEM), a profile technique by which major handicaps are graphically presented along with school grades and achievements in basic skills. The approach lends itself to establishing entry level criteria for special education suited to the needs of specific communities.…

Article adapted from an address given at a meeting of the California Association of Secondary School Administrators (Fresno, California, April 8, 1968). Aspect of National Assessment (NAEP) dealt with in this document: Program Description.

The relative difficulty ratio (RDR) is used as a method of representing test difficulty. The RDR is the ratio of a test mean to the ideal mean, the point midway between the perfect score and the mean chance score for the test. The RDR tranformation is a linear scale conversion method but not a linear equating method in the classical sense. The…

This report discusses a plan to help Georgia school systems develop their own evaluation instruments for student writing. The report indicates that the use of actual writing samples in assessing writing skills can be valid, reliable, and economical. It includes attachments with sample writing scores from a school, the purposes and statistics that…

THE AUTHORS HAVE COMPILED AN ANNOTATED LIST OF 61 REPORTS OF STUDIES AND OTHER DOCUMENTS CONCERNING THE USE OF THE TAXONOMY AT VARIOUS LEVELS OF EDUCATION. (WO)

This study investigates the improvement in research and development skills which resulted from the 1968 AERA Presession. Instructional materials were administered to 47 participants who were pretested and posttested to assess their improvement. The results of the presession are considered favorable. (HW)

The difficulties in the assessment of severely handicapped children are described. Competencies for examiners and desirable test characteristics are listed. A table presents descriptive information on tests most frequently used in measuring the behavioral repertoires of severely handicapped children. The Developmental Activities Screening…

Available designs and instruments for evaluation are not adequate to meet the varied needs of evaluation. Therefore, evaluation needs to be reshaped in terms of 1) consideration of how and where currently available theories, designs, and instruments are proving useful, 2) identification of needs that cannot be met ith currently available…