A statewide random sampling of seven groups of professional educators (N=90) and 30 parents of learning disabled (LD) students were compared for their degree of agreement on the Modified Component Disability Instrument. Professionals included teachers of LD adolescents, remedial reading teachers, school psychologists, speech clinicians, school…

In order to develop a systematic procedure for the evaluation and revision of educational software for microcomputers, a study was undertaken by the Educational Products Information Exchange (EPIE) Institute and the Microcomputer Resource Center at Columbia University to define the criteria that are needed to evaluate instructional microcomputer…

Although unreliable and not predictive of medical school performance, the admission interview continues to be used extensively to collect noncognitive data about medical school applicants. A procedure is suggested for assuring that a group of interviewers assigned to an applicant does not unfairly help or hinder the candidate's ratings. At least 3…

THIS IS THE FIRST PHASE OF A 5-YEAR INVESTIGATION INTO THE LOGIC OF TEACHING THE SECONDARY SCHOOL. DUE TO THE UNSTRUCTURED NATURE OF CLASSROOM DISCOURSE, THIS STAGE OF THE INVESTIGATION IS CLASSIFICATORY AND DESCRIPTIVE. TOPICS COVERED INCLUDE (1) SCHOOLS, TEACHERS, AND RECORDINGS (SCHOOLS INVOLVED, SELECTION OF SUBJECT AREAS, ESTABLISHING RAPPORT…

OUT OF INTERVIEW DATA AND A BUREAU OF STANDARDS BOOKLET, TWO APPRAISAL DEVICES "WHERE IS IT DONE" AND "WHAT TO DO" WERE DEVELOPED TO MEASURE SOCIAL READINESS FOR EMPLOYMENT. THE DEVICES ARE DIRECT MEANS FOR A STUDENT TO RECORD HIS THOUGHTS ABOUT WORK AND SCHOOL SITUATIONS SO THAT HE AND OTHERS CAN OBSERVE THE VERACITY OF HIS RESPONSES. THE DEVICES…

Various practices of grading, and some of their advantages and disadvantages are discussed. The first chapter presents the purposes and meaning of letter grades, and offers some guidelines: letter grades should reflect academic achievement, rather than affective behavior or personality; they should be closely related to course objectives and…

A computer program named Program STANDARD is presented and demonstrated. This program calculates the statistical significance of the overall agreement of the categorical assignments. The program is based on Light's statistic, G, for describing the conjoint agreement of many observers with correct or standard set of classifications on nominal…

Although grades have been criticized for lack of reliability, end-of course grades and grade-point averages are reliable enough for most uses. The charge of unreliability applies only to grades on themes, tests, or other individual pieces of student work. On the other side of the controversy, grades have been said to be essential to the learning…

This paper describes the proposed Assessment Center at Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry, New York. The center is intended to provide statistical and technical support for the Mercy College elementary education, special education, and speech and hearing departments in the areas of student assessment, student guidance, and program evaluation. Evaluation…

An assessment of the reliability of the followup questionnaire given to 715 graduates of the postsecondary Minnesota Area Vocational-Technical Institutes is presented. The questionnaire was designed to gather information that would facilitate decision making concerning vocational programs. Reliability was based on the consistency of group…

An instrument for measuring the value orientation of educational administrators was constructed following the model developed by England for measuring the value orientation of managers. The instrument was administered, via mail, to a stratified sample of 210 administrators from five States in the Plains and Rocky Mountain areas. Respondents rated…

This study examined the validity of the wholistic procedures used to evaluate the essays written by students in the Georgia University System as a part of the Language Skills Examination in the Georgia Rising Junior Testing Program. The plan of this study employed analytic procedures to evaluate a stratified random sample of the essays from the…

The primary purpose of this study was to obtain estimates of the human attribute requirements of the job elements of the Position Analysis Questionnaire (PAQ). A secondary purpose was to explore the reliability of job-related ratings as a function of the number of raters. A taxonomy of 76 human attributes was used and ratings of the relevance of…

This study examined the cognitive behavior of supervising teachers and their student teachers working in a conference situation. A modified version of the Aschner-Gallagher classification system was used to code videotapes of conferences held by 15 elementary school teachers and their student teachers. Some of the 15 teachers had previously taken…

Three topics in factor analysis are covered: a) a reliability coefficient for assessing the quality of a maximum likelihood factor analysis, b) an application of three-mode factor analysis to serial learning data, showing variations in learning curves over stages of learning and individuals, and c) the use of personal probability functions to…