This revised manual has been designed to be used by Navy instructors in shore-based schools, training afloat, and components of the Naval Reserve as a guide for the construction and use of achievement tests. The seven chapters cover: 1. Navy Training and Achievement Testing; 2. Performance and Identification Tests; 3. Written Tests; 4.…

The Basic Test Battery (BTB), a tool in the Navy's enlisted classification system, was developed to predict performance in Navy schools. Men scoring well above the minimum selection scores are expected to demonstrate greater school success than those who are assigned to the schools with minimum or waivered scores. This study attempted to determine…

The appendix examined the measurement instruments developed in the course of the Integrated Management of Cerebral Palsy project to measure functional movements and socialization skills of severly handicapped, nonambulatory cerebral palsied children who had limited speech. The field test sample consisted of 51 cases for the Eau Claire Functional…

The papers on which this book is based were prepared for a conference at the University of Texas in Austin in October, 1968, organized by the Social Science Research Council and the College Entrance Examination Board. The papers are divided into the following sections: system design; instructional design; optimizing learning; individually tailored…

A survey of assessment procedures of the newborn and of the infant during the first month of life was conducted; the survey indicated that there were instruments for evaluating the newborn and for evaluating the four-week-old infant, but there was no single procedure which included an evaluation of both the newborn and the four-week-old infant.…

Several experiments investigating the relationship between frequency of testing and learning are reviewed, and features of design which could have influenced outcomes are discussed. A study on test frequency is presented, in which relevant variables, apparently not considered in previous research, are controlled. Results indicate that moderate…

This paper describes the study which attempts to determine if civic education and political socialization topics are international in scope and, moreover, if instruments can be designed to measure cross-national effects of such education. An international committee first meeting in Hamburg, Germany, in 1966, decided to treat the subject…

An instrument to measure occupational awareness was developed. An occupational awareness inventory was developed in association with efforts in other areas. A pool of 150 items was developed using the "Dictionary of Occupational Titles." Special emphasis was put on the worker traits of occupations. The items were given to a panel of experts to…

A study was conducted to investigate learner control of instruction in contrast to response sensitive branching algorithms with respect to two specific types of instructional decisions: (1) whether a student should enter and study a particular instructional module given his score on an associated diagnostic pretest; and (2) when a student should…

This evaluative research project represents an attempt to assess the effects the University of Washington's women's continuing education program has upon participants. Brief instruments to measure self-image, attitudes toward women, problem-solving ability and career orientation were constructed and administered to registrants and nonregistrants…

This working paper treats research progress on educational accountability. The document first defines accountability and provides its historical background, gives some reasons for its current popularity, and establishes its relationship to the society that engendered it. Next, the paper focuses on the two major issues in accountability -- (1) its…

Based on the feeling that affective dimensions of reading are important and deserve evaluation, a scale is suggested to assess attitudes toward reading. The scale consists of a series of statements and five possible responses to each, ranging from "strongly agree" to "strongly disagree." Each response is given a numerical value; and the higher the…

Provided is a guide for school districts interested in adopting the Helping Eliminate Early Learning Disabilities (HEELD) Program, an early childhood learning program developed and operated in Oregon. The HEELD program is described, and guidelines for implementing the four phases of the program are presented. Sections cover each of the phases as…

The annotated bibliography on Severely and Multiply Handicapped--Teaching Methods/Assessment contains approximately 120 abstracts and associated indexing information for documents or journal articles published from 1966 to 1975 and selected from the computer files of the Council for Exceptional Children's Information Services and the Education…

The guide provides information on resources for bilingual materials, services, and programs nationally and in the Region 9 states (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Vermont) served by the Northeast Area Learning Resource Center. Sections are given to information (such as address and a brief…