Test anxious students were less likely to have effective study habits and more likely to delay academic tasks than those showing low debilitating anxiety. (Editor)

The author provides a brief technical description of an apparatus designed to help understand the process of thinking, and discusses several educational applications and implications of the apparatus. (AK)

The Comprehensive Examination can serve as an integrating educational experience and also to raise and unify the standards of American Library Schools. (AB)

Focuses upon some poetry of peace written in wartime and discusses the relevancy of a unit of such poetry to the concerns of modern youth. (SW)

Setting a cutting score is a key problem in criterion-referenced measurement which is discussed within a decision theoretic approach when just one student is considered. A minimum information solution is given and compared with approaches when there is information about a group of students. Formulas illustrate the discussion. (CM)

Given the difficulty of admissions decisions, admissions officers must use all of the information they can secure to evaluate a student's potential for graduate study. The various admissions procedures and uses of standardized tests in the 10 schools of the University of Virginia are described. (Author/CM)

A study of scores on England's General Certificate of Education (GCE) examinations suggested that, compared to females, males perform better on objective tests than they do on other forms of assessment. The fact that nonobjective tests emphasize written communication skills, which tend to be more highly developed in female candidates, may explain…

The author began his education career committed to curriculum, not measurement. After years of using teacher-made and standardized tests as instructional afterthoughts, he recognized the superiority of criterion-referenced testing and the influence of high-stakes testing on instruction. He then became involved with developing such tests on a…

Classical procedures for calculating the two indices of decision consistency (P and Kappa) for criterion-referenced tests require two testings on each child. Huynh, Peng, and Subkoviak have presented one-testing procedures for these indices. These indices can be estimated without any test administration using Ebel's estimates of the mean, standard…

Classical test theory is contrasted with new rules of measurement. In the newer, model-based test theory, item response theory (IRT), some old rules of measurement no longer apply. Six old rules that conflict with the new rules are reviewed. Sources of additional information about IRT are listed. (SLD)

Educators' confusion over uses of standardized tests is akin to mistaking pulse rate for the total effect of a health regimen. Using authentic standards and tests to judge intellectual ability is labor-intensive and time-consuming. What students need is a test with more sophisticated criteria for judging performance. Includes 37 references. (MLH)

Describes Ball State University's (BSU's) academic support program for incoming freshmen, which utilizes the "Learning and Study Strategies Inventory" to assess the study skills of incoming freshmen. Indicates that BSU's program enhances student success through promptly identifying student study habit strengths and weaknesses and…