Proficiency Certification: Wha Da Ya Know?

Validity and reliability are the twin holy grails of evaluation.   Yet they are difficult to discover in the day-to-day testing that accompanies day-to-day classroom teaching.  But, when teachers use ScottNet^'s^® MakeMeSmart^™ interactive online multimedia tutorials to teach and test content, it becomes possible to hone both the teaching and the measuring instruments ever sharper without compromising their confidentiality.  With our testing tools it is possible to compose and administer a unique randomized test over the same content as often as one wishes, without skewing the test results significantly because of the student's familiarity with the testing instrument.

And best of all, tests of student proficiency can be developed and refined which reliably measure performance, predict success, and certify competence with a high degree of validity.  Finally, teachers will be able to "certify" student achievement in ways they may only have dreamed of heretofore.

© 1994, Joseph L. Scott, Ph.D., Germanic Languages & Literatures: josephlscott@hotmail.com

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