The major part of this bulletin consists of two studies on the place of examinations in the school system. In a long paper (28 pages) on "New Techniques for Assessment of Pupils' Work," A.D.C. Peterson discusses: (1) efforts to improve reliability by the use of objective tests, improved marking procedures, and better standardization; (2)…

The present study was concerned with several currently unanswered questions, two of which are: what is an empirically determined ratio of multiple choice to equivalent true-false items which can be answered in a given amount of time?; and for achievement test items administered within a classroom situation, which of the two formats under…

New strategies for evaluation criterion referenced measures (CRM) are discussed. These strategies examine the following issues: (1) the use of normed referenced measures (NRM) as CRM and then estimating the reliability and validity of such measures in terms of variance from an arbitrarily specified criterion score, (2) estimation of the…

A distinction is made between reliability of measurement and reliability of classification; the "criterion-referenced reliability coefficient" describes the former. Application of this coefficient to the probability distribution of possible scores for a single student yields a meaningful way to describe the reliability of a single score. (Author)

A factor analytic study is presented of the Learning Environment Inventory, an instrument originally designed to assess secondary students' perception of 15 school environment dimensions. Responses from 3,613 subjects were analyzed through principal components and varimax rotation procedures. In contrast to the expected structure, analyses…

Described is the development and revision over a 3-year period of the Developmental Indicators for the Assessment of Learning (DIAL), a screening test to identify pre-kindergarten children with learning disabilities. The DIAL is said to provide for gross motor, fine motor, cognitive, and communications assessment of large groups of children. Among…

Two five-week test-retest reliability studies of a measure of the unit of perception of ongoing behavior were conducted. In the first, 25 females and 23 males segmented a 7-minute action sequence under fine-unit or gross-unit instructional sets. Number of units marked at first viewing correlated .87 with number of units at retest. Correlations…

Concommitant with changes in education, health care roles, and evaluation in recent years, a new six year combined B.S. and M.D. program was inititated at the University of Missouri at Kansas City. Evaluation was integrated into the academic plan in order to assess student progress toward the overall goal of becoming a safe physician, as well as…

The Message Measurement Inventory was designed to determine the dimensions which listeners consider when they judge a message. This paper outlines the development of the inventory and describes some of the first studies using it. In addition, the paper discusses tests of the validity, reliability, and precision of the scales and scaling procedures…

Tested several predictions about cheating by a multivariate technique applied to two sections of a college economics course examined on the same day, with 50 percent of the questions repeated on the second exam. It was found that 36 percent of the students on the second test had used information acquired from the first test. Majors, better…

The use of cut-off scores with criterion referenced tests is defended in this response to two papers by Gene Glass and Nancy Burton. Suggestions for setting cut-off scores are made. (JKS)

Stimulus screening characterizes the degree to which an individual automatically and selectively responds to stimulation. Reliability and validity data are presented for a verbal questionnaire measure of child stimulus screening which employs mother reports. (Author/JKS)

The reliability and predictive validity of the WISC-R was investigated with 46 Mexican-American children. Approximately a year and a half after the administration of the WISC-R, scores on the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills were collected. Results indicated that the WISC-R meets minimum requirements of reliability and predictive validity with…