APPROXIMATELY 1,300 MENTALLY RETARDED PATIENTS WERE INVOLVED IN A STUDY ON THE ADEQUACY OF HEARING TESTS, THE INCIDENCE OF HEARING LOSS, AND STANDARDIZATION OF PROCEDURES. THE STUDY INCLUDED TEST STANDARDIZATION AND EVALUATION, HEARING SCREENING AND PSYCHOLOGICAL-SOCIAL-OTOLOGICAL EVALUATION, AND HEARING TEST DEVELOPMENT. THE SUBJECTS WHO…

A study sought to determine the feasibility of the COMP/ACT objective test, a competency battery, as a measure of ability to function effectively in adult roles. (Using stimulus materials from many different courses, such as broadcasts and television documentaries, the test measures six skill areas, including communicating, problem solving, and…

This paper explores problems inherent in requiring elementary and secondary school social studies teachers to teach economics and be tested with regard to their knowledge of economics without requiring any academic preparation in economic education. Information is based on test scores of 34 elementary and secondary school Texas social studies…

An evaluation team was formed to sponsor research designed to improve the conduct and utilization of federally funded evaluations. The research projects assigned to the team reflected existing priorities for evaluation research, mainly by third party studies of existing urban area educational programs. It was found that something was seriously…

There is increasing interest in reviewing teacher hiring procedures in order to answer society's demands that students should be accountable for learning basic skills and teachers should be accountable for proving their general and specific content knowledge. There is a trend toward requiring teachers to pass a state board examination proving…

In 1975 the City of Detroit Public Schools were ordered by the United States District Court to improve educational services in order to eliminate vestiges of past discrimination. To this end, the school system obtained Emergency School Aid Act and State monies to fund four educational components: reading and communication skills, inservice…

This issue of a newsletter for second language researchers and teachers features an article by Michael Clyne entitled "Research on Bilingual and Second Language Acquisition in Australia." The article provides abstracts of Australian research projects in English as a second language, perception of Australian English speech, testing second…

This document consists of appendices to the report of pretest results and the posttest analysis plan for the quantitative component of the multimethod evaluation of the Head Start Bilingual Bicultural Curriculum Development Project. Appendix A provides criteria for scoring mean length of utterance for the bilingual syntax measure. Appendix B…

Guidelines are presented to help college students prepare for taking tests, with particular instructions for objective, essay, and quantitative tests. A check list suggests the types of information which should be known before starting to study for a test--such as type of questions and probable content. Techniques for studying include outlining…

A project was conducted to (1) develop test exercises for identified skills important to success in many occupations, (2) field test their practicality of administration in Norwich, Connecticut, vocational programs, and (3) survey opinions of employers and educators regarding test exercise generalizability across occupational fields and potential…

THIS DIRECTORY BY PROJECT ARISE (ADULT REFERRAL AND INFORMATION SERVICE IN EDUCATION) OF THE PROVIDENCE SCHOOL DEPARTMENT INDICATES ADULT AND CONTINUING EDUCATION PROGRAMS, TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES, RECREATIONAL PURSUITS, AND CULTURAL OPPORTUNITIES THROUGHOUT RHODE ISLAND. IT PROVIDES INFORMATION ABOUT DEGREE AND NON-DEGREE OPPORTUNITIES THAT EXIST…

ACTIVITIES, FACILITIES, AND PROGRAMED READING MATERIALS AT THE ADULT LEARNING CENTER OF ELIZABETHPORT (ELIZABETH, NEW JERSEY) WERE EVALUATED IN 1968 BY STAFF MEMBERS AND PARTICIPANTS. STAFF OPINIONS DIFFERED AS TO THE MOST SUCCESSFUL MATERIALS, AND REASONS GIVEN FOR SUCCESS VARIED BETWEEN INTEREST LEVEL, SIZE OF PRINT AND LENGTH OF STORIES, THE…

GRADED AND NONGRADED CURRICULUMS ARE REVIEWED, AND COMPARED, AT THE FLORIDA STATE PRISON. DATA WERE OBTAINED FROM A LITERATURE REVIEW, INTELLIGENCE AND ACHIEVEMENT TESTS, PUPIL INTEREST INVENTORIES, STUDENT RECORDS, OBSERVATIONS, CONFERENCES, AND CASE STUDIES. IT WAS FOUND THAT THE GRADED CURRICULUM HAD WEAKNESSES IN THE LANGUAGE ARTS SUBJECTS,…

This battery of test instruments is one of a set of three developed for use in the study of bilingual (English-Spanish) instruction programs and other compensatory programs in Texas. The tests are to be individually administered and are designed to measure children's basic language competence via the perceptual and motor sides of linguistic and…

Four articles, written in German, discuss such aspects of the language laboratory as: teaching pronunciation in the laboratory (Heinrich Schrand), the dummy-element in transformational grammar (Helmut Heuer), testing in the language laboratory (Kenneth S. Leigh), and language laboratory work in Finland (Roland Freihoff). Nine book reviews on…