University instructors should provide more careful checks and feedback to students who are learning to do intelligence testing. It also is important for supervisors in service facilities to monitor tests that provide bases for crucial decisions about children. Intelligence test scores relate to many other variables. Improperly trained examiners…

Study based on F. M. Lord's arguments in 1957 and 1959 that tests of the same length do have the same standard error of measurement. (CB)

Student prepared questions were used in this examination experiment that proved quite beneficial to student learning. (HS)

Two methods are proposed for analyzing for floor and ceiling effects in test measures when the distribution of the data is binomial. (Author)

The initial purpose of this study was to determine how counselors used information yielded by multifactor intelligence tests. Data, however, revealed enormous percentages of nonclassifiable responses regarding these tests. The findings seemed to indicate a tendency on the part of counselor educators to downgrade the importance of accurate test…

The authors discuss the advisability of making orientation test batteries voluntary. Though students are opposed to compulsory testing, the authors argue that the information gained from them is important to the educational process. (CG)

A method for obtaining criterion-references information from standardized tests is proposed. (TA)

Rod-and-frame test data of undergraduates were subjected to pattern analysis, which showed that most tilt toward the spatial position of the frame, while some utilize two frame cues, i.e., the nearest to vertical side and corner of the frame. Other interpretations of performance were not supported by results. (Author/RD)

Percentile scores appear to be the easiest standardized test scores for parents to understand. Yet in this true-false test, Hills reveals commonly held misconceptions about percentile score reports. (LC)