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Osterlund, Blair L.; Cheney, Kenneth – Measurement and Evaluation in Guidance, 1978
This study demonstrates the reliability of holistic reading for student essays. It was found that the Test of Standard Written English correlates to a greater degree with the holistic reading scores than it does with teacher-assigned grades. (Author)
Descriptors: College Students, English Education, Grade Prediction, Higher Education
Download full textSherman, Jay L.; Kulhavy, Raymond W. – 1976
The Sherman-Kulhavy Laterality Assessment Inventory (LAI), an instrument for determining cerebral laterality, was administered to 1,000 undergraduates to determine the ability of the LAI to discriminate between right- and left-dominant groups. Each S was administered the LAI, a 45-item verbal report instrument which assesses both fine and gross…
Descriptors: Cerebral Dominance, General Education, Higher Education, Prediction
Peer reviewedWestbrook, Franklin D.; Molla, Bekele – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1976
The researchers used experimental and control groups to compare the rankings of selected stereotypes by 67 male and 124 female college freshmen for the occupational representatives of Holland's six personality and occupational types. (Author)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Females, Higher Education, Males
Peer reviewedLoesch, Larry C.; McDavis, Roderick J. – Counselor Education and Supervision, 1978
This article discusses the development, field test, and uses of the counseling-orientation scale (COS), a scale for assessing relative preferences for seven major counseling orientations. Procedures used to develop and validate it are presented. The COS field test, reliability, and normative data are described. (Author)
Descriptors: Counseling, Higher Education, Measurement Instruments, Norm Referenced Tests
Rovner, Robert; Sedlacek, William E. – 1974
The Situational Attitude Scale-Simplified (SAS-S), a simplified form of the Situational Attitude Scale (SAS), was used to measure the attitudes of 132 incoming white freshmen toward blacks. The study showed that the simplified form yielded the same established pattern of results as the regular SAS. This indicates that the SAS-S would be…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, College Freshmen, Higher Education, Interpersonal Relationship
Armstrong, Robert J.; And Others – Journal of the National Association of College Admissions Counselors, 1976
This study determined how accurately high school students (n= 1119) report class rank on the Student Descriptive Questionnaire (SDQ). Official transcripts were analyzed to determine which rank category should have been reported by each applicant. The authors concluded students report their rank in class with a fairly high degree of accuracy.…
Descriptors: Class Average, Class Rank, College Applicants, College Bound Students
Perkins, Kyle – 1986
Based on the premise that composition skills and their evaluation are crucial to the educational process, this paper presents a tentative research program for conducting future English as a second language (ESL) composition evaluation studies. The program developed in the paper covers the following topics as areas which merit further rigorous…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Evaluation Criteria
