Evaluating the Effectiveness of Competing Instructional Programs
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9730760 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David M Shoemaker (Southwest Regional Laboratory for Educational Research and Development, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1972 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 5-12 |
| Publication date | 1972-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Educational Researcher (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-189X • E-ISSN: 1935-102X |
| Publisher | American Educational Research Association (AERA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3102/0013189x001005005 |
| OpenAlex | W2027337187, W4247521365 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 15 |
psychometric procedure that educators may use to select the one program that best fulfills their requirements. Although at an early time the differences among programs may have consistently favored one program above all other competitors, such is not the case today. Contemporary instructional programs are devised typically by reputable content experts and several programs usually merit some consideration. The difficulty in selecting a program arises because competing programs are constructed frequently upon differing sets of objectives and content bases. And this is not by accident. The uniqueness of each program is often purported to be its major asset. Although the difficulties inherent in comparing instructional programs with dissimilar objections are often cited (e.g., Brownell, 1966), this is precisely the comparison educators must make. Described herein are five alternate approaches for assessing the merits of competing instructional programs. Each alternative is considered to be in that the students in each program have equal advantage on the comparative measure in terms of the content and objectives reflected in the measure. The first four approaches have some precedent in previous research. Their description here is background for a fifth approach which, in the author's opinion, provides a more appropriate rationale and procedure for making program-fair compari
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Content Standard Test Scores
Item Sampling for Achievement Testing
Estimating Norms by Item-Sampling
The Effect of Item Stratification on Errors of Measurement
The Estimation of Mean Achievement Scores for Schools by the Item-Sampling Technique
Computer-Aided Item Sampling for Achievement Testing
Estimating Means and Standard Deviations From Partial Data—An Empirical Check on Lord's Item Sampling Technique
| Citations per year | 0.04 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1975 - 1986 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |