# PERFORMANCE TESTING

Department of Defense PIN 40227 PERFORMANCE TESTING SECOND PROGRAM IN INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY SERIES. DISCUSSES ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF PERFORMANCE TESTING AS OPPOSED TO KNOWLEDGE TESTING. EXPLAINS TECHNIQUES FOR VALIDATING TESTING METHODS. DESCRIBES ENVIRONMENTAL, PERSONAL, AND INSTRUCTIONAL AND TESTING VARIABLES TO CONSIDER WHEN SELECTING METHOD OF TESTING. EMPHASIZES KEEPING STUDENT OBJECTIVES IN MIND; SETTING GOALS STUDENT MUST ATTAIN; AND BEING SELECTIVE IN AREAS TESTED.

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1980
- By: Department of Defense
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/gov.dod.dimoc.40227)
- Licence or status: [CC0 1.0](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: its uploader or archive marks it public domain, and nothing the site holds bears that out (its record gives no year, or a year from 1978 on, which no US term has left), so where it is free is not known. Unclear is not offered.