Eight papers on various aspects of criterion-referenced measurement presented at the 1972 AERA Conference are reviewed. A list of the papers reviewed, their authors, and, when applicable, the ED numbers is provided. In addition, 10 references considered as valuable are provided. (DB)

The nature of self-report instruments designed to measure communication apprehension is discussed in this study. The following proposition was investigated: there are independent source versus receiver dimensions and independent-formal versus informal-context dimensions of self-reported communication apprehension. The Personal Report of…

This report outlines the procedures involved in the development of a test of literacy suitable for use in screening large numbers of persons. The authors discuss the problems which were faced from the initiation of the project through the final assembly of the test materials, describing the difficulty of definition, the practical constraints on…

This report briefly reviews research on teacher effectiveness and presents the conclusions of a 2-day conference held in October 1969 to consider issues related to the assessment of teacher effectiveness and make recommendations to the U.S. Office of Education (USOE) regarding the encouragement of research in this area. The committee concluded…

Concludes that scores on impromptu in-class papers can reveal improvement in writing skills after one semester of instruction. (DD)

Reported is the development of an instrument to measure teaching skills of lesson orientation, verbal and written reinforcement, and lesson conclusion. Randomly selected pre-service science teachers were "visited" twice, once before skill training was given and once afterwards. Data gathered by videotape were subjected to an analysis of variance.…

A graph-theoretic paradigm is used to generalize the common measures of categorical clustering in free recall based on the number of observed repetitions. Two graphs are defined: a graph G that characterizes the a priori structure of the item set defined by a researcher, and a graph R that characterizes a subject's protocol. Two indices of…

Designed to assess consistency in teacher judgment of student essays and to assess conformity of teacher judgment with expert judgment, the Composition Rating Scale (CRS) requires the taker to rank-order five brief compositions. Requiring twenty minutes to complete, the scale can be used to evaluate the consistency of teacher judgments of…

Designed to provide a scale for assessing the quality of short expository essays, this material includes a group of six expository essays about 250-300 words in length arranged in order of quality. Each essay is followed by critical comments and a general discussion of the characteristics of essays at that level of quality. No validity or…

There are issues in evaluation and stages of product development that demand the use of experimental or quasi-experimental designs. To counteract criticism of evaluation efforts, an approach to the examination of the multiple issues involved in curriculum product evaluation across the usual developmental cycle of educational products was…

An instrument is presented for recording and analyzing student and teacher behavior in laboratory or activity-centered vocational education classrooms. The instrument uses categories of behavior, such as: (1) asks extended thought questions, (2) shows or illustrates, and (3) management of lesson, for teachers; and categories such as: (1) asks…

The Gateway Technical Institute's followup study on former adult basic education (ABE) students is examined in this report, which focuses primarily on the process of the study. Since the Gateway study complemented objective measures of program effectiveness with a perspective that is often missing in program evaluations, namely, former…