After being measured for test anxiety, three groups of participants observed an experimenter, who served as a model, solve sample problems prior to performing themselves. Opportunity to observe a model who verbalized while working on problems and who stated general principles had a positive effect on performance. (Author/KM)

The real issue in higher education is not bad and unreliable examinations, but the poverty and ineffectiveness of teaching. (Author)

This study compared interest, personality, and ability scores of vocationally undecided students who, after counseling, either selected a major or remained undecided. (Author)

This study interpreted a factor analysis of like-named scales in terms of Holland's theory of vocational choice. The Holland system facilitated the naming of the factors and provided possible explanations of low correlations between like-named scales. Finally, the results lent support to Holland's categories of occupational activity. Comments by…

Findings in this study do not demonstrate that factual review questions produce any generally facilitating effect on the learning of incidental information when compared to no question at all. (Author/JB)

Diagnostic procedures are an essential preliminary step in meeting all children's instructional needs, from kindergarten up. (DM)

Describes the method used in the Diagnostic Test of the Rx Reading Program for the various consonant and vowel sounds. (MM)

The notion that response bias may spuriously influence categorical judgments on discrimination tasks with unequal response alternatives was investigated using the Wepman Auditory Discrimination Test. (Author)

Summarizes the latest developments in the field of testing from the manpower point of view. Manpower Research Visibility is a supplement to American Vocational Journal. (Author/SB)

Study asks whether laboratory findings, that isolation of an item facilitates its recall, extend to formal educational settings. (Authors)

Testing and pseudotesting based on observations of patterns of motivated behavior are the two concepts discussed in this article. (Author)

Between-scale correlations indicate that both tests provide similar measures of intellectual performance, but because of the discrepancy in mean IQ scores of the WPPSI and WISC, comparisons should be confined to within-test contrasts. (Author)