Assessment and Evaluation of Developmental Learning: Qualitative Individual Assessment and Evaluation Models
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Assessment and Evaluation of Developmental Learning: Qualitative Individual Assessment and Evaluation Models
By (Author) Robert M. Hashway
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Praeger Publishers Inc
30th January 1998
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Philosophy and theory of education
Educational psychology
Industry and industrial studies
370
Physical Properties
Hardback
344
Description
As the technological demands of a rapidly changing society impact the training needs of the industrial sector, mechanisms for identifying learner strengths as well as weaknesses are needed to optimise the training process. In addition, there is a need for processes for evaluating the effectiveness of programmes focused on the developmental needs of learners. Traditional measures, such as norm-referenced paradigms, do not meet the criteria established for developmental assessment. This book provides the technical details needed to construct instruments as well as evaluate programmes using a recently developed technique called item response theory, which meets the criteria for developmental assessment.
Author Bio
ROBERT M. HASHWAY is Professor of Education at Grambling State University. He is the author of Objective Mental Measurement (Praeger, 1978), Foundations of Developmental Education (Praeger, 1988), and Handbook of Developmental Education (Praeger, 1990).
