You are here
Search results
Displaying 1 - 10 of 33
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
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 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
As teachers, we should be clear why we are testing. We should not test just because it is always done. Certainly, tests often do help motivate students to work harder. But the results can be...
| Year published: 1980 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Teachers have always needed valid tests to assess students' proficiency so that the most appropriate classroom instruction can be used. This is particularly true in the current educational...
| Year published: 1981 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The need to assess how much students have learned has been fundamental in education for as long as there have been students and teachers. Long before standardized tests of achievement came on the...
| Year published: 1981 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
There are three major methods of determining how readable (i.e. understandable) prose is.
1. The teacher, from experience, makes an estimate Teacher Estimates.
2. The pupil tries reading it (...
| Year published: 1981 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Educational testing, once the subject of debate by teachers and other professionals, is now being debated in public forums and in open court. Public concern has been most clearly expressed in the...
| Year published: 1981 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article It has become increasingly common for students in New Zealand schools to sit tests using a computer. Sometimes a computer-administered test and a paper-and-pencil version of the same test are used...
| Year published: 2014 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
In this edition of Assessment News we take a close look at the new Supplementary Tests of Achievement in Reading (STAR). In particular, we consider how confident teachers can be in...
| Year published: 2013 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: 
set2013_1_071.pdf | Content type: Set article