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Sheran, Michelle; Sarbaum, Jeffrey – American Journal of Business Education, 2012
Colleges and universities are increasingly being held accountable for assessing and reporting student learning. Recently there has been increased focus on using assessment to improve learning over time. In this paper we present a simple, step-by-step assessment process that will deliver meaningful results to achieve these ends. We emphasize the…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Pretesting, Microeconomics, Pretests Posttests
Dick, Walter – Performance and Instruction, 1986
Addresses the four questions raised by Yelon about use of pretests with instruction--should I pretest; on what should I pretest; how should I pretest; how should I adjust to results--and answers them from the perspective of instructional designers conducting formative evaluations to improve quality of instruction under development. (MBR)
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Instructional Design, Material Development, Motivation
Trzasko, Joseph A. – 1975
This paper describes the proposed Assessment Center at Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry, New York. The center is intended to provide statistical and technical support for the Mercy College elementary education, special education, and speech and hearing departments in the areas of student assessment, student guidance, and program evaluation. Evaluation…
Descriptors: Competency Based Teacher Education, Educational Assessment, Evaluation, Pretesting
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Rubenstein, Ralph; And Others – Journal of Medical Education, 1979
An approach to teaching the mental status examination to sophomore medical students at the Wayne State University School of Medicine incorporates live simulations, a detailed handout, a pretest and post-test, and a short lecture and discussion. The data suggest significant post-test gains, but there were negative findings regarding the handout.…
Descriptors: Emotional Disturbances, Higher Education, Medical Education, Mental Disorders
Pitrolo, Betty – 1979
The Adult Education Outreach Program in Monangalia County was designed to meet an apparent need and assess the feasibility of developing similar programs in other areas of West Virginia. Goals and assessment of success were based on these four research questions: (1) Will adults who need skills in solving consumer problems avail themselves of the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Attitude Change, Consumer Education, Consumer Protection
Truby, Max E. – 1974
The purpose of the research project was to determine the effectiveness of a comprehensive career orientation program in increasing awareness of self and of career opportunities in students of rural areas. Conducted with grades 7 and 8 in LePera school in Parker, Arizona from May 1973 to October 1974, the program provided occupational information…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Education, Grade 7, Grade 8
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Swamy, B. Sundara; And Others – Indian Journal of Adult Education, 1978
To assess gain and retention of televised agricultural information and its relation to other characteristics such as farmers' age, land ownership, and education, an experiment using a before-after design was conducted in a rural area of India covered by the Satellite Instructional Television Experiment (SITE) program. (MF)
Descriptors: Adult Farmer Education, Audiovisual Instruction, Communications Satellites, Developing Nations
Noon, Madeline Estella; Hanson, Connie – 1972
The document describes the consumer and home economics summer programs for grade 7 and grade 8 girls in two junior high schools. The programs provided opportunities to learn basic sewing and cooking skills, as well as personal improvement such as grooming, hygiene, posture, and modeling. A number of field trips to supplement the class instruction…
Descriptors: Consumer Education, Cooking Instruction, Home Economics, Instructional Materials
Kaufman, Maurice; And Others – 1978
This report describes the implementation of the Language Education Acceleration Program (LEAP) of Medford, Massachusetts. The program is evaluated. The administration of the program is discussed. Pre and post test results are given and analyzed for the Metropolitan Achievement Test, Stanford Early School Achievement Test, phonics, structural…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Compensatory Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Skills
Gagliardi, Vincent M. – 1975
The report describes the planning, development, implementation, and evaluation for the 1973-74 school year of a pilot program in career education for an inner city middle school. Career education was infused into the ongoing curriculum in a team-taught interdisciplinary approach. Career clusters were related to the major academic areas utilizing…
Descriptors: Career Education, Inner City, Interdisciplinary Approach, Middle Schools
Leonard, Joycelyn – 1975
Major goals of the Gila River Adult Basic Education Experimental Demonstration Project in this program description are identified as: (1) improving the academic skills of hard-to-reach adult dropouts and (2) training non-degreed local residents (people 19 years old or older with an 8th grade performance level) to recruit, counsel, and teach…
Descriptors: Adult Education, American Indians, Community Education, Community Involvement
Alabama State Univ., Montgomery. – 1971
A Federally-sponsored summer institute, the 1971 adult basic education (ABE) teacher training institute at Alabama State University was an in-depth study directed to the identification and solution of crucial problems of rural poor adults. The 100 institute participants, representing 16 states, were ABE administrators and teachers and personnel…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Programs
Beardsmore, Hugo Baetens; Lee, E. J. – 1978
An experimental course in English for non-English speaking post graduate research students is described here. The course was intended to enable the students to use English efficiently in exchanges related to their profession. The selection process, teaching methods, and the "exit test" are described and a discussion of the adequate and inadequate…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Class Activities, Communicative Competence (Languages), Course Content
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Borhani, Rahim – 1976
This is the final report of a Kansas state project which had four purposes: (1) Involvement of teacher training institutions with the unified school districts' career education program in order to gather information needed to provide realistic experiences for inservice education of future career education teachers, (2) involve the community in…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Career Education, Consortia