This paper describes the development, utility, and validity of the Situational Self-statement and Affective State Inventory (SSASI), a research inventory designed to assess cognitions and affects across a variety of five hypothetical situations. Each situation describes a realistic incident involving interpersonal conflict, principally criticism…

The Vocational Instruction, Training and Assessment (VITA) Project conducted a study to determine whether a battery of tests used with a sample of handicapped students enrolled in vocational education program(s) could aid in predicting success in vocational training. Procedures, instruments, and student samples were selected to provide data on (1)…

The claim that using the College Level Examination Program (CLEP) English General Examinations in lieu of regular English composition courses contributes to lowering of the quality of higher education was investigated by determining whether the level of achievement in the CLEP English Examination was related either to the frequency in which…

The primary goal of this review is to acquaint developmental psychologists who have had little experience in the study of individual differences in cognition with some of the basic rules that govern this type of research. A second goal is to stimulate researchers to consider the potential benefits of studying differences among individuals whose…

The relationship of student locus of control (SLOC) to six achievement measures and a number of student characteristics measured in a study of student performance in a reading tutorial program was examined. Subjects were 121 elementary and junior high students, individually tutored two hours daily by high school and college students and adults.…

The Classroom Behavior Rating Scale (CBRS) was developed to provide school psychologists and educators with a measure of learning-related classroom behaviors of elementary school students. The initial item pool consisted of 100 behavioral statements reflecting learning-related behaviors such as attention and persistence. These behaviors were…

The forty minute Remote Associates Test (RAT) is designed to measure individual differences in an ability considered to be fundamental to the creative thinking process. It is based on a strictly associative interpretation of this process, an interpretation which envisions the process as one of seeing relationships between seemingly mutually remote…

The accuracy of the percentage of survival technique (P-S Method) for predicting school enrollment is examined by testing it on 242 towns and cities in Massachusetts. An attempt is also made to identify certain factors associated with accuracies and inaccuracies in the P-S Method. Three general conclusions are drawn: (1) The P-S Method produces…

A number of potential threats to internal validity in true experiments are discussed. Programmatic research efforts proceeding from established correlational findings to experiments employing random assignment are described and used as referents in discussions of validity considerations. The collection of observational data is recommended for use…

This study compares teacher and observer adjective descriptions of student characteristics to teacher rankings of the same students' characteristics on a series of 13 rating scales. Data reported were collected as part of the Student Attribute Study, a 2-year investigation designed to identify student characteristics which are associated with…

The development of the communicative competence test for college business majors described in this paper consisted of three phases. The first phase identified as desirable the following communication behaviors: planning, logic, perception, communication without fear or anxiety, listening, oral communication, conference leadership, and nonverbal…

Teaching may seem too complex and too involved in various dimensions of affective and cognitive aspects of learning for a good teacher evaluation program to be devised. A hierarchy of criteria is proposed, based upon analysis of observable versus unobservable characteristics, measureable and non-measureable characteristics, and attributes and…

In order to determine if multiple choice spelling tests are as effective as handwritten tests, 265 college freshmen were tested on the same spelling words by traditional oral dictation and then by five-option multiple choice questions. Results were compared to examine the efficacy of multiple choice testing. Of a possible 20 points, the mean score…

The way in which diagnostic reading test scores were used in planning a remedial program is examined in this report. Among the topics discussed are the administration of a diagnostic test in 13 Irish schools; the organization of a remedial program for students identified as having severe reading problems; weaknesses of diagnostic tests currently…

This study sought to develop an instrument for measuring teacher knowledge of reading at the secondary school level. Multiple-chioce items were generated from a content outline derived from a review of the literature and were submitted to a panel of experts who categorized the items, answered them, and rated each one's importance. After revisions…