Using behavioral rating forms, college professors were covertly rated each day by pairs of students ostensibly enrolled in their classes. On specified days pairs of faculty observers introduced themselves to the instructor and rated him using the same forms. The purpose was to determine whether changes occurred in the instructor's behavior as a…

The influence of parents and teachers upon the deaf child's formulation of his or her concept of deafness is quite profound. The articulation of the attitudes of parents and teachers toward the types of employment deaf people can perform is, therefore, very important. An attitude instrument and research methodology were developed and tested with…

Expansion and modification of a 27-item Delphi derived form for assessing campus police performance resulted in a 43-item form to measure job performance of correctional officers in the Georgia Department of Corrections. The self-rating scale, with a reliability coefficient of .995 (n=120) was subjected to factor analysis and varimax rotation and…

A multiple-choice test was developed to assess cognitive gains resulting from participation in the School Health Education Curriculum Project. The test was intended for seventh grade students, and was based on curricular objectives in the cognitive domain: knowledge, comprehension, application, and evaluation. Educators who were familiar with the…

This study examined the effects of certain item selection methods on the classification accuracy and classification consistency of criterion-referenced instruments. Three item response data sets, representing varying situations of instructional effectiveness, were simulated. Five methods of item selection were then applied to each data set for the…

The lack of a suitable research instrument on attitudes of elementary school children toward school and subject matters has limited the quality and extent of research on school attitudes. The Affective Reporting System was conceived to fill this need. It consists of two instruments--ME and What I Like Best (WILB), each possessing two versions:…

Because it generally took over an hour to administer the Porch Index of Communicative Ability (PICA), a shorter but comparable version of the test was developed. The original test was designed to quantify aphasic patients' ability level on common communicative tasks and consisted of 18 ten-item subtests. Each item resulted in a proficiency rating,…

Selection of workers for counseling programs is a process which occurs everywhere, but little research has been done on this issue. Traditional methods of selection--self-selection, interviews and/or recommendations and psychological testing--have fallen short on issues of reliability and validity. A behavioral measure which placed…

The reliability and meaning of assertiveness tests were explored using 120 female undergraduates. Several self-report inventories (the College Self-Expression Scale, Conflict Resolution Inventory, and a global rating from one to seven) were administered, as were three anxiety measures (Timed Behavior Checklist, response latency, and response…

The Opinionnaire on Political Institutions and Participation (OPIP) was designed to measure six dimensions of the overall construct of political attitude. Three studies were undertaken to determine the validity and reliability of the instrument, and the OPIP was found to be a valid and reliable instrument for research and evaluations using…

A 21-item measure of pre-school children's "self-concept as a learner," known as the Behavioral Descriptor Scale, was developed and evaluated. The child's teacher and an assistant were required to complete the scale for the child at two different times. Satisfactory levels of reliability were gained for each scale item. Test-retest…

The reliability and validity of measurement is analyzed by a sampling model based on generalizability theory. A model for the relationship between a measurement procedure and an attribute is developed from an analysis of how measurements are used and interpreted in science. The model provides a basis for analyzing the concept of an error of…

THE INSTRUCTIONAL RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, AND EVALUATION UNIT OF THE DADE COUNTY (FLORIDA) PUBLIC SCHOOLS CONSTRUCTED SEVERAL INSTRUMENTS TO MEASURE CHILDREN'S LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT. FOUR OF THESE INSTRUMENTS WERE USED BY THE SPECIAL LANGUAGE TEACHER PROJECT IN A STUDY CONDUCTED FROM FEBRUARY TO MAY, 1967 IN DADE COUNTY SCHOOLS. THE OBJECTIVES OF…

FOLLOWING DISCUSSION OF THE NATURE AND VALIDITY OF NEW YORK STATE CIVIL SERVICE EXAMS, IT WAS CONCLUDED THAT VALIDITY OF SELECTION PRACTICES CONCERNS CONSIDERATIONS BEYOND A COEFFICIENT OF CORRELATION BETWEEN A SET OF PREDICTOR SCORES AND A SET OF JOB PERFORMANCE CRITERIA. THE REAL VALUE OF A SELECTION PROGRAM LIES IN ITS EFFECTIVENESS IN…

A study was conducted to determine whether interjudge reliabilities on assignments of comprehension questions to the Barrett Taxonomy categories could be attained and whether the taxonomy could be used as a criterion to assess varying levels of reading comprehension questions in various reading textbooks. A total of 623 questions from three fourth…