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Peer reviewedDiamond, James; Evans, William – Review of Educational Research, 1973
The purpose of this study was to summarize research relevant to the correction for guessing formula. Six areas are reviewed: reliability, validity, test taking behavior, statistical implications, public acceptance, scoring labor. (JB)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Guessing (Tests), Literature Reviews, Test Interpretation
Peer reviewedHenry, Virginia; Lyall, Jerry H. – Volta Review, 1973
Descriptors: Deaf Blind, Exceptional Child Education, Multiple Disabilities, Placement
Peer reviewedMusser, A. Wendell – Journal of Medical Education, 1973
Descriptors: Equivalency Tests, Health Personnel, Higher Education, Labor Needs
Peer reviewedMurphy, Lois B. – Childhood Education, 1973
Author stresses the great need for each teacher to use all of the available resources along with his own fresh look at the child in his situation in order to discover the meaning of the child's behavior from the child's own point of view. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Feedback, Intelligence
Prosser, Glyn – Bulletin of the British Psychological Society, 1973
The author describes a pilot study designed to determine the validity of examination practices at the University of Keele. The research procedure is detailed and results of the study are analyzed. (SM)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Research, Higher Education, Psychology
Peer reviewedRichterich, Rene – Zielsprache Franzosisch, 1972
Summarizes Robert Lado's ideas on language testing and the study of linguistics. (DS)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Language Instruction, Language Research, Language Tests
Peer reviewedKnight, John M. – Journal of Educational Research, 1973
The particular variable manipulated in this study was the testing procedure. The experimental test contingency is called programmed student achievement which involves requiring a student to retake tests until he has evidenced 100 percent mastery of discrete units of material. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Data Analysis, Performance Factors
Jones, Adaline D. – Balance Sheet, 1973
Descriptors: Business Education, Course Evaluation, Education, Office Occupations
Foth, Dennis L. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1973
Paper based on a Ph.D. dissertation submitted to the University of Alberta, Canada, 1971. (RS)
Descriptors: Control Groups, Mnemonics, Nouns, Recall (Psychology)
Peer reviewedMcIntyre, P. J. – Science Education, 1972
Describes the production of a test with a low verbal load for use with elementary school science students. Animated films were used to present appropriate and inappropriate models of the behavior of particles of matter. (AL)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Animation, Elementary School Science, Evaluation
Prediger, Dale – Measurement and Evaluation in Guidance, 1972
The article emphasizes the importance of using tests in the context of a developmental career guidance program and the responsibilities of test publishers for helping counselors convert test scores to counseling information. (Author)
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Development, Career Guidance, Counseling
Peer reviewedLeith, G. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1972
Experiment set out to determine whether responses to creativity tests are influenced by the personality of the subjects and by the amount of stress imposed by different testing procedures. (Author)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Correlation, Creativity
Peer reviewedTownson, Michael – English Language Teaching, 1973
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Evaluation Methods, Language Instruction, Speech Skills
Peer reviewedOsnes, Jostein – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 1972
Investigates the influence of handwriting style and composition errors on the marking of essays. (DS)
Descriptors: Essay Tests, Grading, Handwriting, Handwriting Skills
Harmon, Lenore W. – Measurement and Evaluation in Guidance, 1973
Bias in interest testing occurs if tests are used to encourage an individual to consider, enter, or reject an occupation or type of occupation on the basis of an irrelevant variable, sex. In general, the externally referenced inventories, which reflect the current state of affairs and have well established predictive powers, have the most…
Descriptors: Bias, Career Choice, Interest Inventories, Measurement
