The results of the first national administration of the National Occupational Competency Testing Institute (NOCTI) Examinations in industrial occupational competency are reported. (AG)

The authors suggest that how a child learns is as important as what he learns. The school psychologist can help determine the most suitable methods of teaching for those students who are having difficulty learning, and pupil instruction can then be individualized. (HMV)

The Illinois Test of Pscyholinguistic Abilities was administered to 167 normal intelligence children (mean age 112 months) and then factor analyzed to determine construct validity and the extent to which each subtest measures a discrete combination of the psycholinguistic dimensions of level, process, and channel. (DB)

Discusses the many implications of test usage, from the employer, employee, state, and legal standpoint. (PG)

The ways in which standard-setting procedures are carried out in the medical specialty certification area are described. Three experiments that have been conducted with alternatives to currently used normative standards are examined, and reasons why these experiments have had limited success are suggested in this speech. The defensibility of…

Presents a scheme for the construction of an item bank containing questions from all subject areas and levels of science. This bank would be made available to teachers in an item booklet which would work in conjunction with a computer-bank system. (GS)

The findings provided no evidence that learning-to-learn effects exist with prose materials and suggested that repeated use of the multiple-choice test produces interference at the higher levels of learning. (Author/BJG)

Proposes to test the hypothesis that despite previous negative findings, readers do alter their reading rate according to their purpose and to establish test conditions under which this competence can be exhibited. (Author/RC)

Data from 2-, 3-, 6-, and 7-point rating scales were analyzed to determine whether scale length affected response patterns. Results indicate that data configurations are relatively invariant with changes in number of scale points. (Author)

Examines the modifiability and heritability of reflection-impulsivity as measured by Matching Familar Figures. A Cotwin control method was used to study the modifiability of reflection-impulsivity and a twin study to assess its heritability. (Author/DEP)

Two psycholinguistic processes are examined in a phoneme monitoring experiment and a sentence completion experiment. Tests were conducted with matched materials on subjects drawn from one population. With ambiguous lexical items all meanings are retrieved, but following a decision stage only one is transferred to memory. (SC)