Development of an evaluation device to accompany a self-instructional program on the teaching of generalizations and cyclic individual testing and revision of the program

The purposes of this study were to develop an evaluation device to accompany a self-instructional program on the teaching of generalizations and to administer the same program to individual subjects for the purpose of revising the program. The evaluation device was based on the objectives of the program, "Teaching Home Economics Students to Generalize Their Learnings", by Dr. Hildegarde Johnson. Test situations constructed were similar to situations in the program in which the subject was guided to plan and make decisions consistent with current ideas about how students learn to generalize. Two tests, one to be used as a pre-test and the other as a post-test, were developed using parallel structure. The tests were sent to five universities where 156 students, who were majoring in home economics education and enrolled in a home economics methods course, responded to the evaluation device. Each test was scored using an answer key. The answer key was developed based on the responses of three members of the home economics education staff at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Each staff member had responded to the program. A Kuder- Richardson test of reliability and an item analyses were computed for the device