In a study conducted at the University of Alberta, an attempt was made to use Piagetian-type observations as an assessment of intellectual capacities and to determine whether learning a second language at an early age has beneficial or detrimental effects on cognitive functioning. For this purpose an 18-question test dealing with conservation…

This paper presents a new multivariate index for use in educational planning. This new index, is called a propinquity index. An individual's propinquity index with respect to a given occupational group is his geometric distance in n-dimensional space from the group centroid, where each dimension is the standard score on one of the original…

The two major components in the Theory of Work Adjustment are the individual and the work environment. This theory is an individual-environment matching model with four basic components: (1) the work personality of the individual, (2) the work environment, (3) measured work adjustment, and (4) work adjustment outcomes. The individual's work…

A study consisting of acoustic measurements at fourteen sites in the London area and 1200 interviews dealing with the effects of the noise conditions prevailing at each of these sites has been carried out with the object of developing acceptability criteria for traffic noise from roads in residential areas. Dissatisfaction with the noise…

The purpose of this study was to explore whether differences exist between competent and incompetent high school students in their styles of thinking and in their attitudes toward what they consider to constitute socially responsible behavior. Social responsibility was measured by a specially constructed Social Responsibility Test (SRT). The…

Included in the proceedings of a 1973 workshop on the education of deaf blind children are four papers on aspects of diagnosis and remediation. Roger Seelye discusses vision, visual anomalies, and the implications of low vision conditions such as cataracts, glaucoma, retrolental fibroplasia, and optic atrophy. The low vision aids workshop is…

Predictors of occupational choices and of on-the-job effectiveness for graduates of secondary school stenographic training programs were investigated. Prior to graduation, 192 stenographic students were tested in measures of attitude, personality, and stenographic achievement. These students were then classified according to occupational choices…

This study examined the validity of the wholistic procedures used to evaluate the essays written by students in the Georgia University System as a part of the Language Skills Examination in the Georgia Rising Junior Testing Program. The plan of this study employed analytic procedures to evaluate a stratified random sample of the essays from the…

This quarterly bulletin lists and provides brief annotations for the instruments recently acquired by the Test Collection, a specialized library of tests and test related information. Types of tests listed are: Achievement; Aptitude; Personality, Interests, Aptitudes and Opinions; and Sensory-Motor. Other information includes announcements of new…

This notebook was designed to provide general guidelines for beginning teachers who are establishing a Latin program. Prepared by Latin teachers in independent schools, the notebook offers suggestions and information on the following: (1) reasons for studying Latin, (2) the age for beginning Latin study, (3) methodology, (4) testing, (5)…

This course provides students with the general information, technical knowledge, basic skills, attitudes, and values required for job entry level as an auto body repair helper. Course content includes goals, specific objectives, orientation, filling with body solder, and plastic filler. A post-test sample is appended. (NH)

A study was made to determine whether or not educable mentally retarded students at the primary and intermediate levels attend to and gain knowledge from filmstrips, or if, in fact, their test performance variance is distributed randomly. The subjects are individually shown a tape-synchronized filmstrip; they are administered both a pretest and a…

The Anchor Test Study provides a method for translating a pupil's score on any one of eight widely used standardized reading tests for Grades 4, 5, and 6 to a corresponding score on any of the other seven tests, as well as furnishing new nationally representative norms for each of the eight tests. In addition, the Study presents new estimates of…

The Anchor Test Study provides a method for translating a pupil's score on any one of eight widely used standardized reading tests for Grades 4, 5, and 6 to a corresponding score on any of the other seven tests, as well as furnishing new nationally representative norms for each of the eight tests. In addition, the Study presents new estimates of…

This volume consists of a series of technical reports on each of the individual test measures administered in both Years 1 and 2 of the Longitudinal Study of Disadvantaged Children and Their First School Experiences. Each report includes: (1) relevant background information concerning the task's purpose and related research findings; (2) general…