A study correlating Nelson-Denny Reading Test scores with American College Testing Program Assessments (ACT) indicates that reading skill can be predicted accurately from the ACT social studies reading and English usage subtests. (MSE)

Compared quality of counselors' written evaluations following an initial interview with clients. Results indicated quality of intake evaluations was lower for vocational than for personal problems. Counselors' interest in doing intakes, studying the results of interest inventories, and doing vocational and personal counseling related to the…

A recommendation to renorm the Bayley Scales of Infant Development is based on (1) high scores obtained on infants in rural North Carolina (N=305); (2) published means for other samples of infants born in the 1970s; (3) recent age placement revisions of items on the Gesell Developmental Examination. (Author/JW)

A unified framework for validating criterion-referenced test (CRT) interpretation is proposed. Using functional literacy as an illustration, the instructional outcomes assessed are called achievement constructs, and described in psychological and behavioral terms. The proposed construct validation methods can yield tests more closely linked to…

While studying testing programs in juvenile incarceratory facilities, the authors found that there may be racial bias in the tests, test items, and in the interpretation of the tests. This article presents new data that have emerged from their original study. The focus is on performance on standardized norm-referenced tests. (CT)

Analyzed the policy statements of various university admission testing programs for accommodation to handicapped test takers. Results indicated that for all tests except the Pharmacy College Admission Test and the Dental Admissions Test requests for nonstandard testing are made at registration. Implications for admissions officers are given. (BL)

Examined test protocols of 64 male inpatient alcoholics to determine whether a general measure of mental health was related to inventories that assess psychopathology beyond what one could expect by subjects responding in a socially desirable manner. Results demonstrated the spuriousness of partial correlations in controlling for social…

Describes ways in which educators in Shoreham-Wading River school district have used their understanding of cognitive levels matching and child's point-of-view in developing curriculum, structuring questions, interpreting test results, and evaluating instruction. (CMG)

Techniques of exploratory data analysis (EDA) were used to decompose data tables portraying performance of ethnic groups on the Scholastic Aptitude Test. These analyses indicate the size and structure of differences in performance among groups studied, nature of changes across time, and interactions between group membership and time. (Author/DWH)

The Jackson Vocational Interest Survey was administered to 10,134 high school college-bound students to appraise the degree to which student profiles for different academic majors could be clustered in a meaningful way. The clustering approach showed definite advantages over the traditional item-based scoring, resulting in more reliable score.…

The Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC) attempts to improve on the theory and technology of intelligence testing. The criteria used for this evaluation of the K-ABC are adequate theoretical basis; expanded range of abilities measured; incremental as well as convergent and discriminant validity; multiple meaningful scores; and training…

Syndrome scores for the normative school-age population of the revised Bristol Social Adjustment Guides were grouped according to sequential hierarchical cluster analyses. Sixteen homogeneous syndromic profile types emerged and are described in this article (Author/BW)

Suggests that the idea of testing be given up, along with the measurement of reading and the idea of reading progress. (AM)

A natural experiment dramatically reveals that scores on a difficult standardized mathematics aptitude test predicts achievement in mathematics over a 2 or 3-year period considerably better than the judgment of the students' present mathematics teacher. (Author/AM)