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Fan, Ya-Ching; Wang, Tzu-Hua; Wang, Kuo-Hua – Computers & Education, 2011
This research investigates the effect of a web-based model, named "Practicing, Reflecting, and Revising with Web-based Assessment and Test Analysis system (P2R-WATA) Assessment Literacy Development Model," on enhancing assessment knowledge and perspectives of secondary in-service teachers, and adopts a single group experimental research…
Descriptors: Research Design, Test Items, Summer Programs, Prior Learning
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Behrman, Edward H. – Journal of Developmental Education, 2000
Discusses validity issues associated with three popular content-general reading college placement tests and then presents a theoretical argument to support an alternative placement procedure using content-specific testing. Proposes that content-specific tests would have improved content-related and construct-related validity. States that more…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Content Validity, Educational Testing, Equivalency Tests
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Robinson, Shawn H.; Kubala, Thomas S. – Visions: The Journal of Applied Research for the Florida Association of Community Colleges, 1999
Describes a study undertaken to increase the effectiveness of student-placement systems in community colleges. Found that the use of student characteristics, such as gender, ethnicity, prior exposure to course work, and enrollment in a study-skills course, was more useful than the SAT, ACT, and College Placement Test in predicting student…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Testing, Evaluation Criteria, Grouping (Instructional Purposes)
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Pike, Gary R. – Assessment Update, 2004
Recently the Educational Testing Service (ETS) has modified its Student Instructional Report II (SIR II) for use in online distance education courses. The SIR II is a second-generation survey based on more than thirty years of experience with student evaluations (Centra, 1998; Centra and Gaubatz, n.d.). The e-SIR II is based on the highly…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Distance Education, Educational Testing, Prior Learning