Deals with some of the findings regarding "understanding of science" obtained within the framework of the Israeli Biological Sciences Curriculum Study-adaptation project. Identifies some of the difficulties associated with assessing student achievement in understanding the nature of science. (JR)

A presentation of arguments demonstrating piaget's sensorimotor stages in Hebb's terms, and the suggestion for performing a computer test. This paper is an early progress report of an attempt to translate some plausible arguments into a rigorous demonstration. (Author)

Considered is the improvement of criterion-referenced measurement as applied to individual and group assessment of handicapped and normal children. (DB)

Purpose of study was: (1) to obtain data in a cultural setting concerning the ability of children to conserve weight at the point of transition from primary to secondary education; and (2) to explore the relationship between performance or reasoning tasks of the kind employed in nonverbal psychometric tests and the presence or absence of ability…

This study examined the relationship between the internal-external control and text anxiety constructs, and academic achievement. The hypothesis that internals would be more successful academically than externals was not supported. (Author)

Compares the test scores on musical achievement of children in Hoboken (N.J.) with those of children from deprived and advantaged homes in cities in the Midwest in a previous study. (RJ)

The Carrow Auditory Test of Language Comprehension was administered to retarded trainable pupils attending public school special education classes to evaluate the appropriateness of the Carrow test for trainable retarded children, and to compare the development of linguistic comprehension in children with normal IQ's with that in trainable…

The investigation attempted to determine first, the correlations among the Frostig Developmental Test of Visual Perception, the Bender Visual-Motor Gestalt Test, and an experimental Visual Discrimination Test of Words and second, the visual perceptual factors that emerged when the data were treated factorially. (Author)

Argues that the most widely used measures of a teacher's instructional skill -- ratings, classroom observations, pupil performance on standardized tests -- have proved inadequate and suggests that a teaching performance test would be an effective teacher assessment technique. (JF)