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An understanding of validity, reliability and usability are a must for all test users. The validity of a test is an indication of how well it measures what the author claims it will measure; its...
| Year published: 1980 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
A test evaluation sheet for teachers.
| Year published: 1980 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
These scales are designed to obtain teacher estimates of a student's characteristics in the areas of learning, motivation, creativity, and leadership. The items are derived from the research...
| Year published: 1982 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
We have all had the experience at some time of being given a good test which has been ruined or just made less 'do-able' by clumsy layout and unsatisfactory reproduction. Poor layout and...
| Year published: 1982 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
In recent years there has been a veritable explosion in the range of instructional materials produced for classroom use: reading laboratories, spelling laboratories, study skill schemes,...
| Year published: 1978 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
In recent years an increasing number of teachers have found the "Cioze Procedure" an asset in their reading programmes. Some use it for assessing the level of their students' reading...
| Year published: 1977 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
NZCER's familiar Progressive Achievement Test series will shortly be extended as the Council launches its fifth set -the PAT: Study Skills Tests.
Since the first PAT tests were released in...
| Year published: 1977 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
There is a considerable difference in attitude to secondary school assessment both within and between various groups in the community. In recent years the community has become increasingly...
| Year published: 1979 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Most children begin school expecting to learn to read. If this expectation is not met, if they have problems with reading, they may develop a dislike for reading, or just a hopeless feeling about...
| Year published: 1979 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
In both Australia and NZ there has been a great deal of interest in the effects that external examinations have on the subjects taught and the way they are taught in secondary schools. In 1970...
| Year published: 1980 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article