PSYC 3850 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Subset, Battelle Memorial Institute, Automatic Train Operation
7 Apr 2014
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Assessment use: one difficulty plaguing behavioural evaluation over the years has been the misuse of assessment procedures. Standardized tests provided information that was useful for some purposes but not for others (e. g. educators frequently found that- Scores did not translate easily into teaching plans; Single score was often used for decisions about educational placement, with little or no additional information about child. Single scores gave teacher, at best, meager guidance concerning activities and specific areas to target in instruction. Criterion referencing: criterion referenced evaluation = assessment of specific skill areas individually, rather than generating a score based on composite of several skills. Evaluator examines performances in various skill areas, frequently constructing a profile of child"s strengths and weaknesses, and pinpoint instructional effort from profile. Referent for evaluation data is still in one"s individual performance but now between skill areas usually measurement involves performance on specific tasks.
