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Brink, Carole Sanger – ProQuest LLC, 2011
In 2007, Georgia developed a comprehensive framework to define what students need to know. One component of this framework emphasizes the use of both formative and summative assessments as part of an integral and specific component of the teachers. performance evaluation. Georgia administers the Criterion-Referenced Competency Test (CRCT) to every…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, High Stakes Tests, Educational Strategies, Program Effectiveness
Popham, W. James; And Others – 1973
Because of misconceptions regarding appropriate measurement strategies, it is necessary to draw distinctions between two major measurement methodologies, norm-referenced and criterion-referenced measurement, as they relate to determining basic academic capabilities. Norm-referenced measures are used to ascertain an individual's performance in…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Criterion Referenced Tests, Evaluation Methods, Measurement Objectives
Nunan, David – 1991
A discussion of the role of second language proficiency assessment in the evaluation of language programs argues that for four reasons, the use of proficiency is inappropriate as a central element in evaluation. The reasons are: (1) the construct of proficiency has not been operationalized in a way that enables it to be used usefully; (2)…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Objectives, Evaluation Criteria, Foreign Countries
Cipfl, Joseph J. – 1984
This speech presents instructional evaluation techniques currently used in Belleville, Illinois. These are based on two criteria: (1) community opinion, and (2) performance level of students. To discover community opinions, needs, priorities, and levels of support, questionnaires are distributed, presenting a series of curricular goals and…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Curriculum Evaluation, Elementary Secondary Education, Needs Assessment
Klein, Stephen – 1970
Despite their advantages over other assessment techniques, current achievement and ability tests are not especially efficient sources of information for the range of educational decisions for which they are used and relied upon. Two major types of tests, criterion-referenced and norm-referenced, and two types of use, student evaluation and program…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Criterion Referenced Tests, Decision Making, Evaluation Methods
Blanchard, Joseph D. – 1972
Some of the general considerations and requirements for the establishment of a testing policy and procedures for a large education system are presented. Testing policy is considered necessary to establish a common understanding of the position of testing in the education program, the facilitation of the use of tests for academic gain, and to…
Descriptors: American Indians, Civil Rights, Criterion Referenced Tests, Cultural Differences
Monteiro, Mike; Bailey, Jerry – 1971
As part of the Quality Assurance procedures, a final test was administered to a sample of the classes participating in the 1970-71 Instructional Concepts Program (ICP). The posttest was designed to measure end-of-program performance on each of the six program outcomes: Color, Shape, Size, Position, Amount, and Pre-Mathematics. This report…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Concept Teaching, Criterion Referenced Tests, Instructional Programs
Benoist, Howard – Alternative Higher Education: The Journal of Nontraditional Studies, 1981
Effective assessment is crucial to outcome-based learning programs. One choice to be made in such programs is whether assessment of student learning should be carried out within course structures or external to them. Advantages to each approach are suggested. The overall recommendation is for external assessment. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Cost Effectiveness, Criterion Referenced Tests, General Education
Green, Donald Ross
A description of two proposals for alleviating the racial and ethnic bias in tests of achievement used in schools is presented. One of them entails adding steps to the construction procedures used in building norm referenced achievement tests; the second entails using criterion-referenced achievement tests rather than standardized tests for…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Criterion Referenced Tests, Cultural Differences, Ethnic Bias
Blanchard, Joseph D. – 1972
The Bureau of Indian Affairs Task Force on Testing has developed a testing policy to aid Native American students in securing quality education and to improve the quality of the Bureau's educational programs. The Task Force reached the conclusion that most if not all commercially available standardized or norm-referenced tests unfairly…
Descriptors: American Indians, Civil Rights, Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Objectives
Vermont State Dept. of Education, Montpelier. – 1975
This evaluation of reading programs funded by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title I, in Vermont provided an assessment of the success of the programs. It was prepared to assist classroom teachers in improving instructional programs. The Prescriptive Reading Inventory was developed as a criterion referenced test to aid instruction. It…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Federal Programs
Education Service Center Region 14, Abilene, TX. – 1975
CREATE (Criterion Referenced Education Associated to Evaluation) is a management and evaluation program developed by the Migrant Division of Region 14 Education Service Center. The evaluation plan, which is the basis for the total program, is tied directly to decision-making at all levels in the program. Utilizing a goal-oriented approach, the…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Criterion Referenced Tests, Data Collection, Educational Assessment
Fink, C. Dennis; Ryan, Robert F. – 1974
A program designed to teach the medical vocabulary required of tumor registrars was developed and administered to 33 persons, 31 of whom were employed at 25 Louisiana hospitals. The training program was administered as a correspondence course covering such topics as the purposes of a tumor registry and how the registry is established; how to code…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Correspondence Study, Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Programs
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Bricker, Diane; Gumerlock, Sarah – Journal of Special Education, 1988
A comprehensive three-level program evaluation plan assesses overall impact of early intervention programs through assessment of children's progress toward developmental milestones; quarterly child progress through administration of a program-relevant, criterion-referenced tool; and weekly child progress toward specific instructional objectives by…
Descriptors: Child Development, Criterion Referenced Tests, Developmental Programs, Developmental Tasks
Dean, Madeline B. – 1978
An Instructional Support System for Occupational Education (ISSOE) was designed to support and facilitate instruction by systematizing those functions essential to occupational programs--reporting, monitoring, and evaluating. ISSOE operates on several levels simultaneously: individual student achievement can be reported, class progress can be…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Ancillary Services, Career Education, Competency Based Education
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