The U.S. Office of Education is undertaking a program of research and development designed to reach the following objective: 100% of all persons not in permanent care institutions must pass, by age 10, a criterion-referenced test which is predictive of competent performance on a set of adult reading tasks selected to have favorable returns to the…

The reliability and validity of the nine scale Social and Prevocational Information Battery for educable mentally retarded individuals was evaluated with four additional samples averaging 82 junior and senior high school pupils. (BB)

Presents a Marital Instability Index (MII) designed to detect the "peaks and valleys" of intact marriages and the relative severity of their instability. Discusses the development of the scale, its administration, reliability, and indicators of its validity. Concludes that the MII appears to have considerable utility for diagnostic and…

A new approach to measurement in education is suggested which affords some hope that the traditional view of examining can be given a better justification. (JD)

Certain subtests of the WISC, ITPA, and Stanford-Binet are used as measures of analogical reasoning. Because several facts suggested that the form of analogy used on these subtests does not require subjects to engage in true analogical reasoning, the validity of these subtests as measures of analogical reasoning was investigated. (Author)

The Metropolitan Readiness tests, first published in 1948 (forms R and S), were revised in 1966 (forms A and B). This study was instigated as a result of the charge that the revisions of the tests made them more difficult and more unfair to deprived children. Thirty-six Caucasian beginning first graders (divided evenly by high and low…

This study investigated the efficacy of predicting academic achievement as measured by the Wide Range Achievement Test, using the Slosson Intelligence Test For Children and Adults as the predictor. Results indicate that the Slosson IQ significantly predicts Wide Range standard scores. (Author)

Describes the construction and testing of an instrument to measure kinesthetic perception. The test can be used on the first day of typing class to predict straight-copy typing speed. Sections or variables on the test are identified that best predict straight-copy speed and number of stroking errors. (Author/SK)

Investigates the validity of Hayes Early Identification Listening Response Test in relation to lower grade school achievement. (Author/DEP)

Evaluated the Counseling Expectation Inventory (CEI), designed to measure prognostic expectation. Participants were clients (N=200) and counselors (N=19) from six college counseling centers. Results suggested convergent and discriminant validity but evidence for construct validity was weak. Improvements in the CEI are needed before it's used in…

This article describes a study in which six academic and 25 shop courses offered in a special vocational high school were grouped into five clusters for each sex. Predictor tests were given to successive cohorts of entering ninth-grade students. (Author)

The article indicates the contradiction that has existed in the scoring and interpretation of test batteries. The multifactor tests of intelligence measure many different human attributes, yet the interpretation of the results of testing with these instruments is based, almost universally, on a single index. (Author)

FOR THIS RESEARCH, A TEST WAS SAID TO BE BIASED FOR MEMBERS OF A SUBGROUP OF THE POPULATION IF, IN THE PREDICTION OF A CRITERION FOR WHICH THE TEST WAS DESIGNED, CONSISTENT NONZERO ERRORS OF PREDICTION ARE MADE FOR MEMBERS OF THE SUBGROUP. SAMPLES OF NEGRO AND WHITE STUDENTS FROM THREE INTEGRATED COLLEGES WERE STUDIED. IN THE TWO EASTERN COLLEGES,…