This study provides data that concern the relationships among the usual clinical approach to memory measurement and results from several standard memory tests. (Author)

Section 3 of Phase II of the Pennsylvania Plan is concerned with the adequacy of the educational quality assessment instruments. An overall discussion of reliability--content, criterion related, and construct--is presented. Reliability coefficients for the assessment inventories are provided and empirical studies of validity are described. (PR)

Procedures are described which were used to develop an instrument and scale to measure an individual's ability to detect and describe the immediate affective state of another. Data are presented indicating the scale's reliability and the extent of the scale's content, concurrent, and predictive validity. (Author)

This paper reports results of efforts over a 7-year period (1960-67) to determine if the Hayes Pupil-Teacher Reaction Scale is a reliable, valid unidimensional instrument which may be used to measure the attitude of students toward the teaching effectiveness of their teachers. Criteria used were 1) each respondent's total score describes with at…

The differential validity of subject area tests of academic ability is investigated. Principal components analyses of test scores, high school grades, and college grades in English math, social studies, and natural sciences show a dominant general ability dimension and a consistent configuration of subject areas on second and third dimensions.…

Research examined the relative desirability of categories of information supplied by a keysort search procedure, as judged by users. The Career Information System was used as the framework for obtaining occupational information organized around the concept of the Worker Trait Group (WTG). Four groups of students in each of grades 9 through 12…

Describes the shortcomings of several indexes which have been used to make inferences about the validity of learning hierarchies and proposes a more satisfactory method of testing the validity of each hierarchical connection. (JR)

Describes the biomotometer and reports a reliability and a validity study of the instrument. (SB)

The development of a scale for measuring campus morale is discussed. Since morale has helped to account for intergroup differences in effectiveness, it might be a significant variable affecting the process and product of higher education. Twenty-two items relevant to institutional morale were selected from the College and University Environment…

Describes development of a morale questionnaire that discriminated significantly between a sample of schools of high and those of low staff morale both in Australia and in the U.S.A. (Author)

Article discussed possible approaches to the question of how to design and accurately assess the construct validity of self-concept instruments. (Author/RK)