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Peer reviewedAsmus, Edward P. – Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, 1989
Provides a conceptual basis for understanding factor analysis as an analytical technique. Illustrates the basic concepts of factor analysis through Edward L. Rainbow's data from a study of variables influencing students' musical aptitude. Suggests that this technique is most appropriate in music applications where the interrelationships between…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Factor Analysis, Music Education, Research Methodology
Download full textSeeley, Leonard C.; And Others – 1978
The Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB), composed of the common elements of operational classification batteries used by the different services, has been given to high school students since 1968. Results are used by the schools for counseling and by the Armed Services for selecting and classifying potential recruits. The present…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Classification, High Schools, Item Analysis
DUBOIS, PHILIP H.; WIENTGE, KING M. – 1966
THIS PRELIMINARY MANUAL OUTLINES CONTENT, ADMINISTRATIVE AND SCORING PROCEDURES, ANTECEDENT RESEARCH, AND AVAILABLE NORM DATA FOR THE TEST OF ADULT COLLEGE APTITUDE (TACA). THE TACA, A COMBINED TEST AND ANSWER SHEET ADAPTED FOR VISUAL SCORING BY AN OPTICAL SCANNER, CONSISTS OF 22 ITEMS ON BIOGRAPHICAL DATA (AGE, SEX, OCCUPATION, FAMILY AND MARITAL…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Aptitude, Adult Education, Adult Learning
Conrad, Linda, Ed.; And Others – 1977
This manual supplements previous guides to the use of the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE). It provides sufficient detailed information about the GREs to permit measurement specialists and institutional researchers, as well as faculty members and administrators, to understand the development of the tests and to evaluate their usefulness.…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, College Entrance Examinations, Content Analysis, Graduate Study
Vineberg, Robert; Taylor, Elaine N. – 1972
To provide information on performance and characteristics of effective and ineffective marginal personnel in the Army, a study has been made of approximately 1,500 men with experience ranging up to 20 years in four different Army MOSs. The study included a group of men with Armed Forces Qualification Test scores in the marginal range and a…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Comparative Analysis, Enlisted Personnel, Job Skills
PALORMO, JEAN M. – 1967
DEVELOPED TO AID MANAGERS OF DATA-PROCESSING CENTERS AND PERSONNEL DIRECTORS IN SCREENING PERSONS WITH APTITUDES FOR COMPUTER PROGRAMING, THE COMPUTER PROGRAMMER APTITUDE BATTERY (CPAB) INCLUDES DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF TEST ADMINISTRATION, INTERPRETATION, DEVELOPMENT, AND STATISTICAL INFORMATION. FIVE SEPARATELY TIMED TESTS (VERBAL MEANING,…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Computers, Data Processing, Guides
Alley, William E.; And Others – 1977
The Vocational Interest Career Examination (VOICE) is 400-item multiple choice inventory developed by the Air Force to improve the quality of vocational guidance and job placement. The VOICE is divided into four categories: job titles, work task, spare time activities, and desired learning experiences. Factor-referenced homogeneous subscales were…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Armed Forces, Career Choice, Enlisted Personnel
Guidance Testing Associates, Austin, TX. – 1967
The purpose of this technical report is to describe the Tests of General Ability and Tests of Reading of the Inter-American Series, to give a brief account of their construction, and to present related statistical data. Norms and suggestions on the use and interpretation of the tests are published separately. The Inter-American Series discussed in…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Biculturalism, Bilingualism
