Evaluation of the final examination should be part of the course evaluation and should include student perceptions of the exam's nature and the questions' quality. The final examination experience of two groups of undergraduate and graduate students are considered. (MSE)

This study surveyed 53 master's level students in two tests and measurement classes to determine if and in what fashion they had been victimized by testing and evaluation. The purpose of this activity was to acquire personal data which could be used to both dramatize and formulate criteria for the construction of classroom tests. A majority of…

For seven years, the Test of Adult Basic Education (TABE) was the primary standardized assessment instrument used by the adult education program of the Midwestern Intermediate Unit IV (MIUIV) of the Pennsylvania Department of Education Bureau of Adult Basic and Literacy Education. While reviewing its current assessment procedures, the MIUIV's…

Sixty-one measurement instruments, all of which have at least minimal reliability and validity are described. They were carefully selected and cross-referenced according to their correlation with the most common needs, goals, and content areas of multi-year projects funded in 1976 by the Women's Educational Equity Act Program (WEEAP). These tests…

This handbook contains a synopsis of the technical data on a variety of tests and inventories used in career assessment. The test abstracts provided include a description of the components of the tests, norms used, coefficients of reliability and validity, and the advantages of uses of the tests. The tests are grouped in three categories: (1)…