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Brookhart, Susan M. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1995
A strength of this exploration of testing and test use in the United States is the concern for how tests affect student conceptions of learning and student relation to knowledge. A weakness is a persistent confounding of classroom and large-scale assessment for state and national purposes. (SLD)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Occupational Tests, Test Construction
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Oosterhof, Albert C.; Salisbury, David F. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1985
The computer assisted testing (CAT) program at Florida State University's Assessment Resource Center is described. Three measurement issues (test quality, confidence in mastery decisions, and maintenance of test validity) and two instructional design issues (quality of instructional objectives and extended feedback following testing) important for…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Educational Objectives, Feedback, Higher Education
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Kolen, Michael J. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1988
An instructional module is presented to promote a conceptual understanding of test form equating using traditional methods. Equating is distinguished from scaling. The equating methods described are: (1) mean; (2) linear; and (3) equipercentile. The module includes a self-test. (SLD)
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, College Students, Equated Scores, Higher Education
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Kingsbury, G. Gage; Houser, Ronald L. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1993
The utility of item response theory (IRT) models in computerized adaptive tests is considered. Measurement questions that have been answered using IRT, and those that might be overlooked because of IRT, are reviewed. Areas in which fuller use of IRT could improve adaptive testing practices are identified. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education
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Vold, David J. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1985
Testing of teacher competence is traced from colonial times to the present. Various forms of teacher testing were commonplace up through the nineteenth century. A major educational reform movement in the early twentieth century succeeded in eliminating teacher tests in favor of proper and uniform preparation through teacher education. (BS)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
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Gullickson, Arlen R.; Ellwein, Mary C. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1985
Elementary and secondary teachers (N=323) were surveyed to determine teacher use of post hoc classroom test statistics and the relationship of inservice practices to background and instructional characteristics. Results indicate teachers do not analyze test results by methods prescribed by measurement specialists. Implications for preservice…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Goodness of Fit, Higher Education