This report is meant to help juvenile courts develop practical risk-screening instruments. Courts increasingly are using some method of risk classification to assist in assignment of youth to differential service/supervision programs. A comparison of commonly used or advocated risk classification methods may provide courts with guidance in…

It is argued that publishers of achievement tests, especially those who publish tests intended for use in many parts of the United States, are for the most part not in a position to obtain any decent evidence about the consequences of the uses that are made of their tests. What responsibilities and actions publishers can reasonably be expected to…

This study compared the effectiveness of the recently-developed Early Screening Profiles (ESP) with the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC), two screening tests designed to measure the cognitive, language, motor, and social development of preschool children. The tests were administered in counterbalanced order to a sample of 29…

The At Risk for Violence Test (ARFV) is a test used to identify violence prone teens and adults. The ARFV, teen version, is designed for use in public and private schools, grades 6 through 12, as an annual screening early in the school year. Norms for girls and boys are used for scoring reports. The adult version may be used to screen job…

Examines the issue of validity and values in the scientific method of research, and suggests that researchers must continuously question the premises upon which their research is based. (SB)

Discusses passage content and style, accessibility of the passages, their completeness, the extent to which the items are passage-dependent, and the extent to which additional knowledge is required to answer the questions on reading comprehension tests and exercises. (TO)

An investigation of three intelligence tests reveals that the Slosson shows signs of becoming a legitimate substitute for other intelligence tests, while the Columbia yielded erratic results for the mentally retarded participants in this study. (Author/KM)

A test administered to normals, delinquents, and felons appears useful for noting proneness to delinquency but not for discriminating degree of delinquency. (Author/KM)

The research examines the hypothesis that predictive validity will be greater for a test given under stress instructions than for a test given under relax instructions. (Author)