In this article, the author reviews the Reynolds Intellectual Assessment Scales (RIAS), an individually administered test of intelligence appropriate for ages 3 through 94 years with a conormed, supplemental measure of memory. The RIAS should be administered by examiners who have formal training in assessment. In this regard, the RIAS is a…

For a multitude of reasons candidates do not always complete all assessments in the examinations they are entered for. Using examination data across a range of GCSE specifications offered by the Assessment and Qualifications Alliance, this article details the impact of "unaccepted" absence on educational attainment, and explores absence…

Provides data from over 2,000 Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventories on the nature of differences on number of elevated scales and in 2- and 3-point code types that occur when norms developed by Colligan et al. are applied. Demonstrates that no one-to-one correspondence exists between results of original norms and results of Colligan's new…

This pilot study proposes a set of analytical steps for comparing schools that participate in the National Science Foundation's Math and Science Partnership (MSP) Program and their nonparticipating peers in the same state. This pilot is part of a larger effort to evaluate the MSP Program's role in student achievement, with two companion analyses.…

THE U.S. EMPLOYMENT SERVICE (USES), IN COOPERATION WITH 18 STATE EMPLOYMENT SERVICES, CONDUCTED A STUDY TO DEVELOP NATIONAL TYPING TEST NORMS FOR USE IN INTERPRETING TEST SCORES ON TYPING TESTS. ONLY EMPLOYED WORKERS REQUIRED TO USE A TYPEWRITER AN AVERAGE OF AT LEAST 1 HOUR PER DAY WERE INCLUDED IN THE SAMPLE. THE TEST ADMINISTERED WAS ONE OF THE…

Parent and teacher ratings of 140 middle school children were collected, using the Revised Behavior Problem Checklist (RBPC). Pearson correlation coefficients revealed generally low variability among the correlations between teacher ratings and parent ratings. (Author/CL)

Administered Russell's (1975) variant of the Wechsler Memory Scale to elderly individuals (N=175) to determine if memory deteriorates with age even when chronic medical problems are not present. Results demonstrated that memory progressively declined after age 65 in a population without medical problems and with above-average education and income.…

Addressed the need to provide normative and psychometric data for the FIRO-BC questionnaire. Reported are the means, standard deviations, test-retest reliability coefficients, and interscale correlation coefficients. Data are reported separately for boys and girls (N=282). In addition, techniques of FIRO-BC data analyses are reviewed and…

Notes that efforts are being made to validate the Rorschach with minority cultures and that preliminary psychometric review of Rorschach data tends to confirm its usefulness in cross-cultural work, and the legitimacy of the concept of modal personality. Reviews several significant issues in cross-cultural use of Rorschach, including norms,…

In order to extend the multicultural horizons of neuropsychological assessment in the Chinese mainland, a battery of eight commonly used neurocognitive tests assessing motor speed, verbal and visual-spatial memory, language fluency, attention, and executive functioning were given to 224 Mandarin-speaking school children (107 boys and 117 girls)…

This document presents an analysis of a normative study done to determine physical fitness norms of college age young adults. Data for this normative study were collected under the supervision of 24 coinvestigators who were affiliated with institutions distributed in all regions of the United States. The study presents the derivation of the…

Two confirmatory maximum likelihood factor analytic models of the Personality Research Form-E are presented and discussed for the men's and women's standardization data. Overall, the patterns of correlations within each data matrix are highly similar, but the factor patterns, factor intercorrelations, as well as the error variances, do differ.…

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory responses obtained from a random sample of Midwestern adults yielded a pattern significantly different from the pattern of the original norms. From these data, two new kinds of normative tables have been developed. In addition, traditional scoring procedures are replaced by procedures that yield…

Attempts to validate the memory portion of the Strub-Black Mental Status Exam by comparing it to the Wechsler Memory Scale. Results indicate significant differences in almost all scores between the brain-damaged and normal groups. The Mental Status Examination appears valid for the differentiation of clinical samples and for the documentation of…

Factors extracted from the normative samples of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children Performance Scale (WISC PS), Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised Performance Scale (WISC-R PS), and Hiskey Nebraska Test of Learning Aptitude (HNTLA) are compared to factors emerging from deaf normative samples on these nonverbal intelligence…