A reliability study is illustrated in which subjects are judged on a dichotomous trait by different sets of judges, possibly unequal in number. A kappa-like measure of reliability is proposed, its correspondence to an intraclass correlation coefficient is pointed out, and a test for its statistical significance is presented. (Author/CTM)

Assessed predictability of Holland's Investigative personality--Self-Directed Search (SDS)--and three consistency levels over seven-year period. Results indicated that for Investigative-type males, SDS has moderately high efficiency in predicting actual job entry, graduate major, and ideal and projected career plans. Differential predictability of…

Results indicate the Marital Interaction Coding System is a dependable and valid measure of marital interaction. Generalizability theory is cost effective and provides quality data. It presents a comprehensive view of reliability and validity. (JAC)

Tests the cross-situational consistency of the Personal Report of Communication Apprehension (PRCA). Subjects completed the PRCA and then reported how much anxiety they would feel or have felt in 35 situations. No evidence of cross-situational consistency was found for the two independent classes of anxiety-producing situations. (JMF)

Findings suggest that a woman will obtain a different Holland code depending on what instrument or what set of scales within an instrument is used to establish that code. This phenomenon could reflect sample characteristics equally as much as any bias in the measures. (Author)

Activity level was measured by two independent methods, a mechanical recording device and teacher descriptions, in a sample of 129 children (65 boys and 64 girls), participating in an ongoing longitudinal study. (Author/MP)

Increasingly, appeals to the divorce statistic are employed to substantiate claims that the family is in a state of breakdown and marriage is passe. This article contains a consideration of reasons why the divorce statistics are invalid and/or unreliable as indicators of the present state of marriage and family. (Author)

Because educational researchers are becoming interested in the uses of ethnographic field methods, the author examines some of the theoretical disputes and methodological problems being experienced in contemporary anthropology, such as hypothesis testing, observer bias, and reliability. (Part of a theme issue on anthropology of education.) (SJL)

Six physical education specialists were asked to rate their second, fourth, and sixth grade students on physical performance, peer relations, cooperative behavior, and ability to reason. When the ratings were repeated eight weeks later, a high degree of stability was found across the four variables and for all three grades. (Author/SJL)

Critiques two central issues of measurement as applied to the evaluation of student progress in cooperative education: reliability and validity. Urges the synthesis of measurement and professional judgment in all phases of the evaluation process. (SK)

Research in written composition must not only face up to the fact that composition tests must meet the same requirements for validity and reliability that other tests must meet, but it also faces the unique difficulty of figuring out a way to give a valid and reliable pretest. (DD)

Two groups of Black and White subjects rated men and women of their own racial group with respect to the dimensions of reliability, trustworthiness, and responsibility. Little evidence was found for widespread gender stereotyping beyond a somewhat more positive self-image among women of both races. (Author/RLV)

This report focuses on research that provides evidence about the reliability, validity, and effects of various techniques of teacher evaluation. (Author)

A short critique of a 1974 monograph. (MS)