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)

This study indicated that the Revised Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities is not able to predict level of success in learning to read. (ED)

AS PREDICTIVE TESTS HAVE BECOME MORE COMMON AND AS THEIR VALIDITY HAS INCREASED, RELEVANT QUESTIONS HAVE SHIFTED FROM WHETHER WE SHOULD TEST TO WHEN, HOW MUCH, OR WHY WE SHOULD TEST. A FIRST ISSUE IN THE SOCIAL EFFECTS OF PREDICTIVE TESTING IS THE RIGHT OF THE SOCIETY TO REQUIRE ITS MEMBERS TO REVEAL INFORMATION ABOUT THEMSELVES, EVEN THOUGH SUCH…

Article gives a comparative analysis of criterion-referenced tests and normative-based tests. (GB)

If the correlation between selection test and pretest is greater than the correlation between selection test and posttest, a selected group will continue to regress to the mean in the norm-referenced model of the Title I Evaluation and Reporting System and, therefore, yield a biased estimate. (Author/RL)

This study reports a case of client-centered therapy in which the therapist directly attempted to intervene and increase the expressiveness of an inexpressive client. In interviews subsequent to the intervention, client expressiveness showed a significant increase over baseline, and this increase was maintained without further therapist…

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…

Biographical variables, available at the time of admission to a psychiatric service, were used to predict posthospital adjustment to military life. Variables which were reliable prognostic indicators included occupational specialty, number of children, wife's attitude, solitariness of work, length of service, diagnosis, and recognition for…

Nineteen school psychologists assigned 142 items in Form L-M of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale to the five Operations categories of Guilford's Structure of Intellect model. Results show levels of agreement are not high enough to justify classifying Stanford-Binet items in accordance with the Structure of Intellect Operations categories.…