A STUDY WAS CONDUCTED TO DETERMINE CHANGES IN SCORE CHARACTERISTICS RELATED TO VARIOUS CONDITIONS OF SPEEDEDNESS WHEN A TEST IS PRESENTED VISUALLY BY PROJECTING ONE ITEM AT A TIME. THIS METHOD OF STUDY IS POTENTIALLY USEFUL FOR PRESENTING TEST MATERIALS BY TELEVISION. THE TOTAL SCORE AND PART SCORE DATA REVEALED HIGH RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE…

THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN CRITERION MEASURES AND SETS OF RANKINGS OF OCCUPATIONAL GROUPS WERE STUDIED. THE MAJOR PURPOSE OF THE STUDY WAS TO DETERMINE A FEASIBLE METHOD OF ADMINISTERING TESTS AND INVENTORIES BY TELEVISION. BECAUSE OF EXPENSE AND TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES, DATA WERE COLLECTED IN A SIMULATED SITUATION. THE SUBJECTS WERE 91…

OBJECTIVITY IN MENTAL TESTING REQUIRES THAT TEST CALIBRATION BE INDEPENDENT OF WHICH PERSONS ARE USED FOR THE CALIBRATION AND THAT PERSON MEASUREMENT BE INDEPENDENT OF WHICH ITEMS ARE USED FOR THE MEASUREMENT. PRESENT PRACTICE IS NOT OBJECTIVE, BUT COULD BE SO, AS SHOWN BY THE EXAMPLE HERE PRESENTED. DATA COME FROM THE RESPONSES OF 976 LAW…

TWO HUNDRED QUESTIONNAIRES WERE CIRCULATED IN THE UNITED STATES AND FRANCE IN ORDER TO GATHER OPINIONS ON THE CURRENT PRACTICES AND PROCEDURES OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE TESTING. QUESTIONS ON THE SURVEY ARE RELATED TO THE PREPARATION OF A FINAL EXAMINATION FOR STUDENTS WITH A FLES BACKGROUND WHO ARE COMPLETING THEIR FIRST YEAR OF HIGH SCHOOL FRENCH.…

TWO SERIES OF TESTS WERE CONDUCTED TO DETERMINE THE SIGNIFICANCE AND MEASURABILITY OF CREATIVITY. IN THE FIRST SERIES, THE GROUP TEST OF CREATIVITY DEVELOPED BY RISSER AND METFESSEL WAS GIVEN TO 425 SEVENTH GRADE STUDENTS AT ELIOT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL IN PASADENA, CALIFORNIA. THE CORRELATION BETWEEN THE CREATIVE ABILITIES MEASURED AND THE STUDENTS'…

The experiment described here was designed to find out which of two methods of testing--blank-filling and translation--gave the more accurate guide to linguistic ability. Two tests were devised to elicit identical correct answers using different means (blank-filling and translation). They were administered to two different classes of Guinean lycee…

One hundred and twenty-five freshman students, assigned to two groups, were used for this study. Each subject completed both 12-minute and 6-minute jogging tests. The reliability of the test was established by comparing the two groups' 12-minute test results. Six-minute test results were compared between the two groups, and there was no…

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a systematic exercise program on sedentary males. The 12 male volunteers were all in occupations which did not require strenuous physical exercise, and they were not carrying out any regular program of exercise. (The mean age for the group was 46 years.) A battery of anthropometric tests and…

This paper accepts Labov's (1973) criticisms of the categorial approach, i.e., the view that linguistic units are categories which are discrete, invariant, qualitatively distinct, conjunctively defined, and composed of atomic primes, and follows Labov in attempting to develop a non-categorial (or fuzzy-categorial) approach to lexical semantics,…

Issues relevant to the nature of attitudes are discussed. The reader is referred to works indexing a variety of existent attitude scales. The way in which one constructs, administers, scores, interprets, and presents findings of an original attitude measuring device is discussed comprehensively, and yet in a nontechnical fashion for…

A pattern-analytical technique, Similar Response Analysis (SRA), was developed, validated with contrived data, verified using previously reported data based on other pattern-analytical methods, and used successfully with "real" data. This technique orders subjects on the basis of the similarity of responses of adjacent individuals, not…

Two papers are presented. The first, "Report of the AISI Research Project on the Paintability of Galvanized Steel," was a project aimed at determining optimum procedures for painting bright-spangled galvanized sheet steel products using three classes of trade sales paints--metallic zinc-dust, portland cement-in-oil, and water base emulsion paints.…

The Bibliography of Guidance and Guidance-Related Materials includes lsitings of the following: (1) audio visual materials, (2) books, and (3) booklet series. Books and booklet entries are annotated and are grouped under the following headings: (1) general education, (2) guidance, (3) psychology-mental health, (4) sociological grouping, (5)…

To differentiate student creativity by various tasks, the investigator used two classes with many minority-group students for whom certain admission requirements had been waived. In lieu of final exam, 17 experimental (Minority) and 28 control students received tests of creative thinking. Two forms were used, each with three separate figural…

Piaget's conception of cognitive development as the development of a set of skills resulting from interaction with the environment has had a great effect on contemporary educational theory and spurred the Educational Testing Service (ETS) to develop a set of written exercises based on this concept. Piaget's emphasis, however, was on concrete…