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Turner, Carol J.; Schwartzbach, Helene – Measurement and Evaluation in Guidance, 1983
Evaluated the Counseling Expectation Inventory (CEI), designed to measure prognostic expectation. Participants were clients (N=200) and counselors (N=19) from six college counseling centers. Results suggested convergent and discriminant validity but evidence for construct validity was weak. Improvements in the CEI are needed before it's used in…
Descriptors: College Students, Emotional Adjustment, Expectation, Guidance Centers
Lokan, Janice – Measurement and Evaluation in Guidance, 1977
This article describes a study in which six academic and 25 shop courses offered in a special vocational high school were grouped into five clusters for each sex. Predictor tests were given to successive cohorts of entering ninth-grade students. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Guidance, High School Students, Predictive Measurement
Merenda, Peter F. – Measurement and Evaluation in Guidance, 1979
The article indicates the contradiction that has existed in the scoring and interpretation of test batteries. The multifactor tests of intelligence measure many different human attributes, yet the interpretation of the results of testing with these instruments is based, almost universally, on a single index. (Author)
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Measurement Instruments, Prognostic Tests, State of the Art Reviews