THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SEQUENTIALLY SCALED ACHIEVEMENT TEST¹

6: Measurement Techniques In Evaluation

“…Sequential testing will become more realistic as computers become available for controlling the testing. Follow ing are references on sequential testing: Linn, Rock and Cleary (1969); Cox (1965); Cleary, Linn, andRock (1968a, 1968b); Cox and Graham (1966); and Smith (1968). Lord (1968) studied what he called "tailored testing" which appears to be sequential testing.…”

Presidential address of division 15 learning hierarchies

“…Specifically, a capability thought to be subordinate to another may turn out to be superordinate, or even coordinate. Such a finding calls for the rearrangement of the hierarchy, as was done, for example, in the previously mentioned study by Cox and Graham (1966) dealing with the addition of two-place numbers. Following such a step, the new hierarchy can then be tried out, in order to seek evidence of positive transfer from one "level" to the next.…”

“…I have in one paper made some suggestions about how these determinations might be made (Gagné, 1967), but I perceive these to be very unsophisticated compared with procedures I can only dimly imagine. An example of a successful tryout of this sort is in a study by Cox and Graham (1966), using a task of elementary mathematics. They were able to show that an initially hypothesized order was incorrect, according to their results.…”

7: Current Research in Mathematics Education

“…Such learning has been called mastery learning (Bloom, 1968), and such tests criterionreferenced tests (Glaser and Klaus, 1962). Several studies associated with the IPI program (Cox and Graham, 1967;Cox and Vargas, 1966;Wang and Lindvall, 1969) were investigations of the utility of CRT's for mastery learning as well as of some of the methodological problems (like item selection) associated with the procedure. One of the problems with CRT's, namely appropriate sampling of test items from a well-specified domain, was examined by Hively, Patterson, and Page (1969).…”