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Measuring And Evaluating Teaching

Subject : teaching
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1. The most robust - or least affected by the presence of extreme values (outliers) - of the three types of central tendency because each number in the data set has an impact on its (mean) value.






2. A measure of how spread out a distribution is. It's calculated as the average squared deviation of each number from the mean of a data set






3. The treatment group; those participants who receive the 'treatment.'






4. Frequently thought of as the 'outcome.' Or treatment variable. The dependent variable's outcome depends on the independent variable and covariates.






5. Objective and measurable quantitative measures - whether stated in terms of frequency - percentage - proportion - or time.






6. The multiple dependent variables in a study with multiple independent variables.






7. Is a particular way in which observation tend to pile up around a particular value rather than be spread evenly across a range of values.






8. Archival or existing records - reports - and data that may be available inside or outside an organization. Examples include - job descriptions - competency models - benchmarking reports - annual reports - financial statements - strategic plans - miss






9. The variable that influences the dependent variable. Age - seniority - gender - shift - level of education - and so on may all be factors (independent variables) that influence a person's performance (the dependent variable).






10. A measure of the relationship between two or more variables; if one changes - the other is likely to make a corresponding change. If such a change moves the variables in opposite directions - it is a negative correlation.






11. Assess the impact of a training program on learning.






12. A type of test reliability in which one test is split into two shorter ones.






13. Numbers or variables that make it possible to rank order items measured in terms of which has less and which has more of the quality represented by the variable.






14. Undesirable variables that influence the relationship between variables an evaluator is examining.






15. The ability to achieve consistent results from a measurement over time.






16. Involves looking at participant's opinions - behaviors - and attributes and is often descriptive.






17. Measures the success of the learner's ability to transfer and implement the learning back on the job.






18. The term researchers and statisticians use to define the 'manipulated' variable in an experiment. An 'experiment group' receives a treatment (for example - attends a training program) - and a control group does not.






19. A variable in which the units are in the whole numbers - or 'discrete' units (for example - number of children - number of defects).






20. Show the actual number of observations falling in each range or percentage of observations.






21. Numbers or variables used to classify a system - as in digits in a telephone number or numbers on a football player's jersey.






22. A commonly used measure or indicator of the amount of variability of scores from the mean. The standard deviation is often used in formulas for advanced or inferential statistics.






23. A nickname for the instructor and class training evaluation forms used in Level 1 evaluation.






24. The range where something is expected to be.






25. Qualitative measures are more intangible - anecdotal - personal - and subjective - as in opinions - attitudes - assumptions - feelings - values - and desires. Qualitative data can't be objectified - and that characteristic makes this type of data val






26. A data point that's far removed in value from others in the data set.






27. The extent to which an instrument agrees with the results of other instruments administered at approximately the same time to measure the same characteristics.






28. The process of drawing the sample of people for a study from the population.






29. A group of participants in an experiment that's equal in all ways to the experimental group - except the control group doesn't receive the experimental treatment.






30. A variable whose quantification can be broken down into extremely small units (for example - time - speed - distance).






31. Asymmetry in the distribution of sample data values.






32. Evaluators to make inferences about data from the sample to a compare the sixes of differences between them.






33. Each person in the population has an equal chance of being chosen for the sample. Choosing every tenth person from an alphabetical list of names - for example - creates a random sample.






34. The process of organizing an experiment properly to ensure that the right type of data - and enough of it - is available to answer questions of interest as clearly and efficiently as possible.






35. A variable that falls into one of two possible classifications (for example - number of children - number of defects).






36. Dividing the population into constituent parts - and then choosing sample members randomly choosing people from each age group creates a stratified random sample.






37. A way of quantifying the difference - using standard deviation - between two groups. For example - if one group (the treatment group) has had an experimental treatment and the other (the control group) has not - the effect size is a measure of the ef






38. Make it possible to rank order the items measured and quantify and compare the sizes of differences between them.






39. A model for measuring effectiveness through four perspectives: the customer perspective - the innovation and learning perspective - the internal business perspective - and the financial perspective.






40. The best-fitting straight line through all value pairs of correlation coefficients.






41. Involves measuring what the practitioner intended to measure.






42. An unknown or uncontrolled variable that produces an effect in experimental setting. A confounding variable is an independent variable that the evaluator didn't somehow recognize or control. It becomes a variable that confounds the experiment.






43. Variable that make it possible to rank order items measured in terms of which has less and which has more of the quality represented by the variable.






44. The extent to which the assessment can predict or agree with external constructs. Criterion validity is determined by looking at the correlation between the instrument and the criterion measure.






45. Another name for a solution or set of solutions - usually a combination of (outliners) - of the three types of central tendency because each number in the data set has an impact on its (mean) value.






46. Means probably true (not by chance) in statistics.






47. A method that helps diffuses the covariates across the experimental and control groups. Researchers in organizations often have multiple dependent variable with one independent variable (for example - performance






48. The process of assigning the sample that's drawn to different groups or treatments in the study.






49. The error of distorting a statistical analysis be pre-or post selecting the samples.






50. Is information that can be difficult to express in measures or numbers.