The evidence used in condemning a test as racially biased is usually a validity coefficient for one racial group that is significantly different from that of another racial group. However, both variables in the calculation of a validity coefficient should be examined to determine where the bias lies. A study was conducted to investigate the…

Reviews some basic definitions, concepts, and principles of evaluation. Also discusses the sequence of steps that are necessary if evaluation of teachers is to be effective and the variables that affect the learning process, considered the major factor in evaluating teachers. (Author/RK)

Navy recruits who are assigned to class "A" schools based on their performance on aptitude tests must complete training at Basic Electricity and Electronics (BE/E) schools prior to enrolling at the "A" schools. Since high attrition rates at the BE/E level due to recruits' failing to master 100 percent of the training modules in…

A study was conducted by the Navy to develop and evaluate human performance reliability estimates for electronic maintenance. Data were collected using the Personnel Identification Information Forms, the Technical Proficiency Checkout Form, and the Job Performance Questionnaire. On the basis of the total number of uncommonly effective and the…

Study examined models for improving prediction of single and multiple criteria. (Author)

The study hypothesized that no differences in ratings on selected teaching performance criteria exist among three groups of student teachers based on cumulative grade point averages. The supervising teachers assigned the performance ratings. Significant differences among the groups were found on three of the nine performance criteria under…

The basic objective of this research program was to develop and to test an accountability model of the educational process. In cooperation with the Pittsburgh School District, a major effort was devoted toward the development of a data base, the construction of appropriate models and the conduct of analyses of the data. Some analysis was…

The University of Minnesota's rhetoric department surveyed other Big Ten universities for the procedures used by those schools to exempt students from the required freshmen writing course and analyzed data about students in their own required rhetoric courses (Rhetoric 1101/1102). The school survey shows that nine Big Ten schools have required…

Results are reported from an investigation of the predictive power of three interviewer social status and five personality factors in a multiple regression analysis with four interviewer performance criteria. Personality factors are found to be more predictive of performance than social status. Clearly, one can improve the probability of hiring…

As the first step in a program to develop quantitative techniques for prescribing the design and use of training systems, the present study attempted: to compile an initial set of quantitative indices, to determine whether these indices could be used to describe a sample of trainee tasks and differentiate among them, to develop a predictive…

Describes research which attempts to provide a solution to the performance criterion problem, concluding that is seems possible to measure many aspects of clerical work using psychometric measures that are highly job related; recommends that such devices be used to supplement ratings in the performance evaluation process.

A feasibility study was undertaken as part of a program to develop quantitative techniques for prescribing the design and use of training systems. As the second step in this program, the present study attempted to: (1) refine quantitative indices employed during the early research, (2) conduct laboratory research on the effects which task index…

Two of three phases of a study were conducted to (1) assess the state of the art on the prediction of nursing clinical performance and (2) obtain current information from nursing education programs about prediction criteria in use by them. Phase one involved a review of the 1965 through 1975 literature pertaining to studies that focused on the…

Criteria and methods for developing a taxonomy for different situational categories are presented. (CK)

This study was initiated to investigate criteria which might serve as predictors of success in the teaching of vocational agriculture in Iowa schools and to identify factors contributing to teacher success or lack of success. The sample comprised 128 Iowa State University graduates who qualified to teach vocational agriculture during the period of…