To determine the effect of purpose, background information, and distractions on the listening act, 692 fourth graders in 24 classrooms were randomly assigned to eight treatment conditions before listening to a 12 minute taped dramatization. One half of the classes were told they would be tested on the taped material; the other half were given no…

This study of student attrition in a public junior college used personality measures and demographic data as independent variables. Student dropout, defined as failure to complete the semester or to transfer to another institution, was the dependent variable. Instruments used were the Omnibus Personality Inventory, the Adaptive-Flexibility…

Exhibit development, as conceived in this report, is an evolutionary process, drawing the museum visitor into the collaborative venture of testing and improving the exhibits. The findings of contemporary learning research were put to work in the arrangement of activities and specimens that engaged children through self-instructional sequences. The…

Five computerized narrative assessment reports are discussed. These are: (1) the Teaching Information Processing System Student Report, used for a college economics course; (2) the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test (PSAT) Score Report; (3) the Programmed Composition of Psychological Test Reports employed at the Mayo Clinic for reporting results…

Tested with the Stanford-Binet Scale of Intelligence were 70 children, aged 3- to 5-years with IQ's from 75 to 145, to determine whether the test could serve as a diagnostic tool for identifying learning disabilities (LD) in preschool children. It was hypothesized that LD children would have a basal age no more than two levels below chronological…

Results of preliminary tests made prior and subsequent to the installation of a two-way interactive communication system which involves a computer complex termed the Local Processing Center and subscriber terminals located in the home or business location are reported. This first phase of the overall test plan includes tests made at Theta-Com…

A three-factor design was used to determine the effects of testing frequencies and feedback delays on college students' achievement in a beginning calculus course. Four test-period frequencies--daily quizzes (5-10 minutes), weekly quizzes (20-30 minutes), three midterm exams, or one midterm exam--were used. Two feedback-delay-levels for test…

A new formula is developed for the relative efficiency of two tests measuring the same trait. The formula expresses relative efficiency solely in terms of the standard errors of measurement and, surprisingly, the frequency distributions of true scores. Approximate methods for estimating relative efficiency may make this function routinely…

Because young children disregard writing on the spine of a book, researchers chose to run a test on color preferences in books. In a library situation young children see most books from a spine-out angle; thus when allowed to select a book by themselves, the first characteristics noticed are size and color. This study is based on the hypothesis…

Sixteen white home-reared babies (eight boys - eight girls) ranging in age from six months to two years were studied during home visits. Piaget's sensory-motor development theory of imitation was employed, and his special thesis of the hierarchical sequence was tested. The examiner proposed four critieria for assessing the development of imitation…

The purposes of this project were to develop a profile of the individual physician's practice, test the physician in the major areas of his practice, and provide educational consultation according to practice profile and test results. A test bank of 1,800 5-option multiple choice questions was classified into 18 categories based on classification…

The text, designed for students and others interested in clinical audiology, is intended to provide comprehensive coverage of not only important concepts in audiology but particularly of the methods and procedures used in audiological assessment. The functions of tests, the administration of specific tests, and the analysis of test results are…

Neurological immaturity, cognitive stages or lack of readiness may be erroneously inferred from young children's task performance. An alternative hypothesis suggests that an inadequate analysis of the criterion task may, in fact, account for children's inability to perform successfully. To support this thesis, investigators examined the four-part…

This study was built on the hypothesis that linguistic cues distinguish the speech of the poor and the ethnically different. Eight samples of connected interview discourse were taken from a two-by-two-by-two matrix of sex, race and social status. The samples were played to groups of elementary, secondary and college students who rated each voice…

The purpose of this study was to arrive at a criterion for grade prediction for college freshmen enrolling in a non-laboratory biological science course. The independent variables employed (selected on the basis of availability from previous academic performance) were: (1) high school overall grade point average (GPA), (2) high school science…