Background: Undergraduate engineering students experiencing distress are less likely than peers to ask for professional help. A population-specific instrument to facilitate the identification of factors that influence mental healthcare utilization could guide development and testing of interventions to increase help seeking. Purpose: We used mixed…

My point of departure in this essay is that student approaches to assessment appear to have become more instrumental, and that there has been a correlative propensity in my teaching practice to "teach to the test". Hence, both learners and teachers seem to have become more strategic in relation to assessment. This situation, I argue, is…

In this paper I explore how Margaret Beier, Lesley Miller, and Shu Wang make claims for the validity and reliability of the instrument they developed to explore the construct of "possible selves" as described in their manuscript, "Science Games and the Development of Scientific Possible Selves."

A methodology for developing a teaching effectiveness rating instrument is provided which elicits measures in terms decision makers believe important, avoids redundancy, includes items raters are able to rate (as perceived by decision makers), and includes concerned parties in the development of the instrument. Methodology consists of development…

This document contains a project report and procedures manual from a project in which a group of junior colleges and postsecondary technical schools in Texas developed, pilot tested, and disseminated performance criterion-referenced occupational examinations for technical occupations. The report describes how teachers and industry personnel…

The article considers: (1) three fundamental principles for measurement, (2) facts about typewriting and stenographic skills that bear on their measurement, (3) recommendations for testing in accord with those facts and with basic measurement principles, and (4) the establishment of standards and modes of scoring and grading. (Author)

SCORIT, a computer program which processes student responses to test items, is described and explained. The method of scoring responses according to an original test design and possible alternate test designs is detailed. The printing and punching of reports in a form suitable for correlational analysis are covered. A program description is…

The Dynamic Personality Inventory (DPI) is described and its uniqueness as an objectively scored, psychoanalytically based assessment instrument is stressed. The available British and American literature reporting applications or statistical analyses of the DPI is reviewed. It is suggested that one source of resistance to even wider acceptance of…

This report describes the formulation of a conceptual base for conducting research on elementary school children's orientation toward their environment and details procedures for developing a battery of instruments for measuring these orientations. A definition of environmental orientations is formulated. This definition is used to focus…

Review of the literature reveals that even with recently developed instruments, there is no effective control for social desirability of alternatives presented, nor for "fake proof devices. (Author/CJ)

This paper, intended as an introduction to attitude scale construction, outlines the theory behind attitude measurement and describes the Thurstone and Likert methods of attitude scale construction. The methodology is illustrated with examples from the construction of a scale the authors developed to measure attitudes to technology and industry.…

A technique to measure the quality of agricultural extension programs by the clientele was developed and tested. The study was conducted in three major steps. First, unstructured interviews of forty-eight farmers and agribusiness persons in seven Ohio counties were conducted to identify those factors they considered when evaluating their county's…

Field validation of the Missouri Career Education Curriculum Project Modules, K-6, was conducted in two phases. In phase 1, three sets of evaluation instruments were produced: K-1, 2-3, and 4-6. In phase 2, the field validation of the K-6 modules was conducted (reported here). (An additional goal of phase 2 was to develop evaluation instruments…

Instruments and questionnaires developed for gathering data on students and the schools they attend should be assessed. This was done for those instruments and questionnaires used in the reading assessment of the first year of the Minnesota Educational Assessment Program. General findings are: (1) Student socioeconomic status is strongly…