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as punishment and the quizzes as a whip, an outside motivator or
disciplinary measure necessary to assure that students read their
homework assignments. These proponents would penalize students,
academically, for poor answers to pop quiz questions.
The problem was overcome by e.‘ttensive revision of school testing
policv and by separating thesr britf tests into t\x;o categories:
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1. Instructional techniques,. progress checks or feedback devices;
2. Verifying techniques, or perfor.nance tests of ability to
perform job tasks.
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Hopefully this paper has anslvcred, at least in part, the following qucs-
tions about criterion-referenced measurement posed Lx? Dziuban and
Vickcry (12) in February 1973:
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“HOW are teachers to make the trasition from the more
traditional practices and what are the consequences?”
“Can present instructional material be adapted to
criterion-rieferenced measurement?”
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