This study examined the relationship between the General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB) and class performance of eleventh- and twelfth-grade high school students enrolled in the Current River Area Vocational School, Doniphan, Missouri. Results of the project should help in counseling prospective trainees toward trade or shop areas and tentative…

This paper criticizes the Future Events Test and conclusions drawn from it on the grounds that the test contains sex-biased items and that locus of control scales have shown no reliable sex differences. (GO)

This study assessed the nature of the conceptual schemas used by elementary school students in observing the behavior of peers. The results indicate that elementary school students use a comprehensive, understandable conceptual schema, discrepant from the schema used by teachers, but reliable. (JMB)

Fifty-six children between the ages of two years four months and four years ten months were given tests relating to the acquisition of both 'specific' and 'generic' concepts. (Author)

Several techniques to use in evaluation and grading are presented. Some grading problems are discussed briefly. (PEB)

The study evaluates a test of occupational information administered to a national sample of 5000 young men in 1966, as part of the National Longitudinal Surveys of employment behavior. The measurement instrument is judged to exhibit desirable characteristics in terms of internal consistency reliability, discriminatory power, and level of…

The Faschingbauer Abbreviated Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (FAM) was developed using cluster analysis and was compared to the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and other short forms. On code-type correspondence, configural classifications, profile validities, and scale elevations, the FAM compared favorably to a…

This is a discussion of the results of the Pimsleur Language Aptitude Battery used to determine the potential language-learning ability of secondary school students. (CK)

Presents details of construction and initial validation of a likert scale for assessing attitude toward six categories of school life with particular emphasis on school lunch. (Author/RC)

In educational tests, subscores are often generated from a portion of the items in a larger test. Guidelines based on mean-squared error are proposed to indicate whether subscores are worth reporting. Alternatives considered are direct reports of subscores, estimates of subscores based on total score, combined estimates based on subscores and…

Recently, there has been an increasing level of interest in reporting subscores. This paper examines the issue of reporting subscores at an aggregate level, especially at the level of institutions that the examinees belong to. A series of statistical analyses is suggested to determine when subscores at the institutional level have any added value…

The manual introduces the Work Personality Profile (WPP), an observational work behavior rating instrument for use in situational assessment in work centers, comprehensive facilities, and employment settings. The WPP assesses such abilities as work attitudes, values, habits, and behaviors that are essential to achievement and maintenance of…

The purposes of the present investigation were to illustrate the applicability of categorization methodology for several empirical situations and to draw implications regarding the use of such methodology in examining categorical data. In using three tasks--two designed to measure cognitive dimensions (e.g., categorizing countries and categorizing…

Most currently used measures of inter-rater agreement for the nominal case incorporate a correction for "chance agreement." The definition of chance agreement is not the same for all coefficients, however. Three chance-corrected coefficients are Cohen's Kappa; Scott's Pi; and the S index of Bennett, Goldstein, and Alpert, which has…

The monograph provides a review of research studies over the past 25 years which have made use of the Attitude Toward Disabled Persons (ATDP) Scale. The report focuses on pertinent information about the scales, their psychometric properties, and the multitude of ways they have been used. An introductory chapter looks briefly at the history of the…