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Hawke, Geof; Quirk, Robert – 1996
Studies of vocational education and training (VET) students' movement into higher education (HE) typically show that VET students granted admission perform at least as well as other admitted applicants; however, such students are often less likely to gain admission in the first place. A move toward competency-based training (CBT) and a concomitant…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Articulation (Education), Comparative Analysis, Competency Based Education
Hymel, Glenn M. – 2002
The massage therapy profession is currently engaged in a competency-based education movement that includes an emphasis on promoting massage therapy research competencies (MTRCs). A systems-based model for integrating MTRCs into massage therapy education was therefore proposed. The model and an accompanying checklist describe an approach to…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Allied Health Occupations Education, Competency Based Education, Criterion Referenced Tests
Dickson, Michelle; Bloch, Barbara – 1999
The implementation of competency-based assessment (CBA) under Australia's National Training Framework was evaluated to provide indicators for improvement in CBA policy and practice. The evaluation included three data collection activities: a survey of 258 teachers, trainers, and assessors (response rate, 43%); a survey of 68 Industry Training…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Competence, Competency Based Education
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Paris, Scott G.; And Others – Educational Researcher, 1991
Explores the cumulative impact of repeated standardized testing on student attitudes and motivation. By high school, a large number of students, especially low achievers, become disillusioned about tests, are less motivated to give genuine efforts, and increasingly use inappropriate test-taking strategies, undermining test validity and genuine…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Criterion Referenced Tests, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education
Bobbett, Gordon C.; And Others – 1994
This paper presents the latest in a series of studies examining school district report cards for their usefulness planning and implementing school improvement. The 1992-93 Arkansas report cards were studied. These were similar to the report cards from Tennessee that were the subject of the initial study in that they used and reported a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Black Students, College Entrance Examinations
Barclay, Leney; Johnson, Hank; Belser, Suzanne – 1998
This document consists of both the "Teacher Edition" and the matching "Student Edition" for a course to help high school students develop the cognitive, psychomotor, and affective skills required for success in the plumbing trades. The 25 units are based on the curriculum alignment concept of first stating objectives,…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Behavioral Objectives, Blueprints, Calculators
Moore, Charles G.; And Others – 1990
This facility maintenance guide is a compilation of duties, tasks, performance objectives, and performance guides that deals with the psychomotor aspect of an occupation. The guide addresses the three domains of learning: psychomotor, cognitive, and affective. Each unit provides job-relevant tasks, standards of performance, source of standard,…
Descriptors: Building Operation, Building Trades, Cleaning, Competency Based Education
Flanagan, Malcolm; And Others – 1986
This manual is intended to assist assessment and teaching personnel in assessing and developing instructional plans for special needs students from early school to independent living and employment. It contains 10 chapters. The following topics are discussed in the first nine chapters: the purpose of career assessment; ethical issues…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Career Planning, Cognitive Tests
Appleby, Judith A. – 1981
One of five modules in the curriculum development series of the 16-module series designed to train vocational education curriculum specialists, this module is intended for use in classes or individual study arrangements at the preservice or inservice level by students with varying amounts of experience in vocational education. (These modules are…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Education, Behavioral Objectives, Competency Based Teacher Education
van der Flier, Henk; Drenth, Pieter J. D. – 1977
The criterion-oriented problem of test bias and fairness in selection is compared to the construct-oriented problem of comparability of test scores in cross-cultural research. These problems are shown to have important similarities, and their studies may supplement each other. In a formulation of psychometric criteria for the comparability of test…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Comparative Testing, Criterion Referenced Tests, Cross Cultural Studies
Howe, Harold, II – 1978
American education is not as inadequate as public opinion indicates. The literacy and skill of American youth are higher today than forty years ago because of our high achievement standards and commitment to equal educational opportunity. These opposing principles have been reconciled by the diversity encouraged in institutions, teachers, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Achievement Tests, Basic Skills
Weiss, David J., Ed. – 1977
This symposium consists of five papers and presents some recent developments in adaptive testing which have applications to several military testing problems. The overview, by James R. McBride, defines adaptive testing and discusses some of its item selection and scoring strategies. Item response theory, or item characteristic curve theory, is…
Descriptors: Ability, Achievement Tests, Adaptive Testing, Bayesian Statistics
Instructional Objectives Exchange, Los Angeles, CA. – 1968
This collection contains 74 cognitive objectives and related test items for home economics instruction in grades 7-9. It is organized into the following categories: child development--including toys, babysitting, and home discipline; clothing and textiles; consumer practices; foods and nutrition; and home management and family economics. Each…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Clothing, Cognitive Objectives, Cognitive Tests
Rudman, Herbert C.; And Others – 1980
This review covers a time span from 1922 to 1980. It examines the link that exists between assessment and teaching. After discussing the milieu in which the two take place, the remainder of the review addresses four questions: (1) how do teachers use test information for instructional decisions?; (2) what has research indicated about the linkage…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Decision Making, Diagnostic Tests, Educational Diagnosis
Arwardy, Joseph W.; Chafin, Carl K. – 1980
The Transitional Curriculum Program at Virginia State University, which is designed to develop underprepared, dependent learners into independent university students, is described. After distinguishing several types of underprepared learners, the following variables are considered: learner success, role of the instructor, and instructor…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, College Faculty, College Preparation, College Students
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