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Mori, Allen A. – Exceptional Education Quarterly, 1982
Comprehensive career assessment of handicapped students takes into account medical, psychoeducational, interest and aptitude information, work and job samples, and situational assessment. School-based career assessment programs are described in Texas, New York, Maryland, and Missouri. The author suggests that such programs will become vital parts…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Evaluation Methods, Job Skills, Program Descriptions
Smith, Martin E. – Performance and Instruction, 1980
Reviews factors that determine sample size, recommended sample sizes, recommended procedures for determining the appropriate sample size, and sample sizes reported in published and unpublished evaluations. (Author)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Educational Research
Schalock, Del; Schalock, Mark; Myton, David – Phi Delta Kappan, 1998
Student learning must be touchstone by which teachers and teacher educators are gauged. Unfortunately articles in November 1996 "Kappan" on "Quality Teaching for the 21st Century" don't support this statement. In contrast to three national certification initiatives, Oregon's teacher licensure system (Oregon Work Sampling…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Beginning Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Direct linkBangert, Art; Kelting-Gibson, Lynn – Teacher Education and Practice, 2006
Recent accountability efforts at state and national levels highlight the importance of preparing future teacher in the skills required to produce sound classroom assessments that are capable of improving student learning through informed instruction. Stiggins (1995) suggests that the quality of classroom assessments will not improve unless teacher…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Evaluation, Work Sample Tests, Problem Based Learning
Download full textBotterbusch, Karl F. – 1976
Seven commercially available work evaluation systems are compared using a standardized outline: development, organization, work evaluation process, administration, scoring and norms, observation of clients, reporting utility, training in the system, technical considerations, reviewer's summary and comments, address, cost, and references. There are…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Occupational Tests, Psychological Testing
Botterbusch, Karl F. – 1977
Four commercially available work evaluation systems are compared using a standardized outline: development, organization, work evaluation process, administration, scoring and norms, observation of clients, reporting utility, training in the system, technical considerations, reviewer's summary and comments, address, cost, and references. There are…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Occupational Tests, Psychological Testing
Peer reviewedSitlington, Patricia L.; Wimmer, Diane – Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 1978
The paper reviews methods of vocational assessment for handicapped secondary students and considers factors involved in job analysis. (CL)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Handicapped Children, Informal Assessment, Job Analysis
Training Officer, 1978
Describes steps in trainability test administration: (1) teaching applicant essential job elements, (2) having applicant perform job tasks unaided, and (3) evaluating the performance. Discusses test selection, availability, and effectiveness. (CSS)
Descriptors: Employment Qualifications, Evaluation Methods, Guidelines, Job Applicants
Peer reviewedEverhart, Nancy – Library & Information Science Research, 1997
Work sampling is a research technique where workers are observed at random times and their activities recorded. Data are converted to percentages indicating the overall distribution of how time is spent in various categories. A background of work sampling, its history in libraries and the planning and implementation of a school library media study…
Descriptors: Employment Practices, Evaluation Methods, Job Performance, Learning Resources Centers
Presnall, David M. – Education and Training of the Mentally Retarded, 1979
Thirty-two moderately and severely retarded adults were engaged in a vocational evaluation and training program to determine the predictive value of four manual dexterity tests (subtests of the Minnesota Rate of Manipulation, the Pennsylvania Bimanual Worksample, the Crawford Small Parts Dexterity Test, and the Purdue Pegboard Test) as they relate…
Descriptors: Adults, Evaluation Methods, Mental Retardation, Moderate Mental Retardation
Botterbusch, Karl F. – 1983
This guide is intended to assist vocational rehabilitation counselors in planning and conducting short-term vocational evaluations of clients. The first section discusses the elements that must be included in a comprehensive vocational evaluation. Next, strategies for conducting a vocational evaluation are explained. The next section, a case study…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Diagnostic Tests, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Drazen, Erica; Metzger, Jane – 1981
To provide a compendium of methodologies on cost impacts of automated hospital information systems (AHIS), this report sponsored by the National Center for Services Research identifies, reviews, and summarizes ten studies on information systems which manage patient care data. The studies were identified by a literature search and those that…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness, Evaluation Methods, Health Services
Honsberger, Treva; Shelley, Mark – 1976
This project's goal was the placement of diversely handicapped students at the secondary level in suitable vocational programs which would lead to eventual employment. The technique employed to discover the aptitudes of these special students was work sampling, which is a vocational evaluation procedure utilizing "hands on" experiences,…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Career Development, Evaluation Methods, Handicapped Students
Peer reviewedHalpern, Andrew S. – Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 1978
Discussed in relation to career education for handicapped students are advantages and disadvantages of four types of measurement: applied performance testing, criterion validity studies, product vs. process measurement, and criterion vs. norm-referenced measurement. Available from: Division on Career Development, The Council for Exceptional…
Descriptors: Career Education, Criterion Referenced Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Darling-Hammond, Linda – Phi Delta Kappan, 1998
Del Schalock, Mark Schalock, and David Myton suggest that the education profession is stuck on an "input" teacher-assessment approach that fails to consider effects on student learning. They offer the Oregon Work Sampling Methodology as an exemplary alternative to portfolios and performance assessments. Although the Oregon WSM is a…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Performance Based Assessment
