A project was designed to provide evaluation materials for dental health education programs at the primary level. Reliable test instruments that assessed cognitive understanding of dental concepts by primary age children were designed. (JN)

Suggests limitations on the sensitivity of cloze procedures to measure the ability of college students to use information across sentence boundaries. (AEA)

On distractor-identification tests students mark as many distractors as possible on each test item. A grading scale is developed for this type testing. The score is optimal in that it yields an unbiased estimate of the student's score as if no guessing had occurred. (Author/JKS)

Howard's Maze test and Maw and Maw's Which-to-Discuss test were individually administered to 25 educable mentally retarded junior high school students. Although the internal consistency of both tests was acceptably high, scores were essentially unrelated to a host of demographic and other types of variables. (Author)

Reports results of a study that examined (CSE) biology examinations to determine whether practical and theory examinations tested separate constructs. Multitrait-Multimethod matrices revealed evidence of convergent validity between two practical tests forming part of the same examination. Practical tests and written papers show very limited…

Reliability and factorial validity of the Attitudes Toward Mainstreaming Scale was supported in a cross-validation study with teachers. Three factors emerged: learning capability, general mainstreaming, and traditional limiting disabilities. Factor intercorrelations varied from .42 to .55; correlations between total scores and individual factors…

Assesses the reliability and validity of the Ethics Position Questionnaire: an instrument with two scales, one measuring idealism and another measuring the rejection of universal moral principles in favor of relativism. (Author/SS)

In a review of studies using the Facts on Aging Quiz (FAQ), group reliability was high, but item reliability was low. Less educated groups were more biased against the elderly. In some ways the revised FAQ supports the Palmore scale, while compensating for its weaknesses. (JAC)

The reliability and validity of the Durrell Listening-Reading Series (DLRS) were investigated with 71 intermediate students in residential schools for the blind. Ss were tested according to their primary mode of learning (large print or braille). A comparison of DRLS scores with scores of the Stanford Achievement Test demonstrated external…

Suggests three techniques for assuring the content validity of classroom/shop tests: build a bank of content-valid test items; develop valid tests based on a carefully prepared table of specifications; and check the validity of tests already developed. A self-test is included for the reader. (CT)

Examines the importance of attitudes and attitude measurement, describing how attitudes are measured through a description of the characteristics of measurement, categories of attitude measurement, and the process of measuring attitudes. Test validity, reliability, and revision are discussed, as are the analysis and display of data. (RAO)

Findings here indicate that an inventory can be constructed for a wide age range of elementary school children which can predict creativity. GIFT is easy to administer and score, and correlates with a composite creativity criterion, art teacher nominations, and scores on a Uses test. (Author/RK)

Investigated the reliability- and criterion-related validity of 11 curriculum-based measures of early academic skills. Analysis of 30 first-grade students suggest that some measures displayed better reliability and validity than others. Discusses the measures' practical utility in light of their technical characteristics and the need for further…

The factor structure of the Charles F. Kettering Climate Scale, a measure of educational environment, was studied with 351 junior high school students on 2 school campuses. Primary and secondary factor structures are reported, as are the Cronbach alpha reliability measures for scores on the second-order structures. (SLD)

Evidence is presented for the reliability and validity of the Talent Identification Instrument, an observation process in music and dance in which multiple judges rate students throughout a multisession audition. Strong agreement among raters and adequate stability estimates were found. Factor analysis and construct validity procedures provided…