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    Course Name:
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    Learning and Evaluation - Education 421
    Instructor:
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    Jack Quarter
    San ester:
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    Summer Intersession
    Goals:
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    (1) to examine various techniques for the evaluation of
    learning; (2) to relate evaluation of learning to theories
    of learning; (3) to have the class members examine their
    techniques of evaluation and theories of learning.
    Text:
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    Lien, A.J.Measuranent and evaluation of learning:
    A Handbook for teachers. Iowa: Brown, 1976
    See: ?
    Attached reading list.
    Books to be
    Purchased are: A.J. Lien, Measurement and Evaluation of Learning.
    Dubuque. Iowa. Wm. C. Brown Co. Publishers, 1976.
    Meir, D. Reading failure and the tests. An occasional
    paper of the workshop center for open education.
    New York: 1973, 38 pp.
    Other readings will be xeroxed.
    Assignments:
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    Short assignments on basic educational statistics and other
    classroom papers as well as a major assignment in which
    each member of the class evaluates his/her philosophy of
    education and techniques of evaluation.
    SECTION 1
    May 10 - Introduction
    May 12 - Describing Educational Data
    *Lien, A.J. Meaurement and evaluation of learning. Ch. 3-5
    May 17 - Standardized Tests
    Lien, A.J. Chs. 4, 6-8.
    May 19 - Biases in Standardized Tests
    Ginsburg,H. The myth of the deprived child. New Jersey:
    Prentice-Hall, 1972, Chs. 2-4.
    Meir, D. Reading failure and the tests. An occsional paper
    of the workshop center for open education. New York: 1973, 38 pp.
    Mercer, J. Test validity, bias and fairness: An analysis from
    the perspective of the sociology of knowledge. interchange
    forthcoming.
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    Defining Objectives For Evaluation
    Section II ?
    explores evaluation within the context of theories of learning.
    The specification of objectives and the evaluation of the objectives
    is examined in relation to different theoretical frameworks.
    May 31 & June 2 - B.F. Skinner - Science and human behavior. Toronto: Collier-
    Macmillan, 1953, Section 1, 3-42.
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    - B.F. Skinner - Beyond freedom and dignity. New York: Knopf, 1971
    Hilgrad, R.E. & Bower, G.H. Theories of learning.
    - Madsen, C.M., Becker, W.C., Thomas, D.R., & Koser, L., & Plager, E.
    An Analysis of the reinforcing function of sit-down commands. (mimeo).
    May 31 &
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    - Skinner, B.F. The technology of teaching. New York: Appleton-
    June 2
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    Century Crofts, 1968. Chs. 7 & 8, 145-184
    - Holland, J.G. * & Skinner, B .F. The Analysis of behavior: A program
    for self-instruction. New York: McGraw Hill, 1961, Set 8.
    June 7
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    - L. Kohlberg
    Kohlberg, L. Stages of moral development as a basis for moral
    education: In C. Beck, B. Crittenden & E. Sullivan (Eds.)
    Moral Education. Toronto: U. of Toronto Press, 1971, 23-92.
    Moral Dilemmas.
    June 9
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    - C. Rogers
    Rogers, C. The actualizing tendency in relation to motives and
    to consciousness. In M. R. Jones (Ed.) Nebraska Symposium on
    Motivation. LincOlh: U. of Nebraska Press, 1963, 1-23.
    Rogers, C. Freedom to Learn. Colombus, Ohio: Merrill, 1969.
    57-114, 229-323.
    SECTION III
    June 14 - 16 ?
    In this section the class shall explore learning and evaluation
    within the context of their own approach to education. Each member
    of the class will make an individual presentation setting out
    their: 1) philosophy Of education, 2) educational objectives,
    3) operationalization of objectives, 4) evaluation of objectives.

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