This study provides an independent assessment of the reliability, validity, and design of the Defining Issues Test. (Author/SB)

An investigation of the reliability and validity of the Health-Related Physical Fitness Test found the instrument to be highly reliable for the 11- through 14-year-olds who served as subjects. (Author/CB)

Examined the effects of order of stimulus presentation on observer ratings of counseling performance. Results revealed a statistically significant interaction between quality of performance and the order in which the performances were rated. (Author/ABB)

Conducted four studies to develop Adolescent Perceived Events Scale (APES), measure of major and daily stressful events during adolescence. Describes test construction, test-retest reliability, and concurrent validity of APES. Summarizes subsequent research showing APES to be significantly related to behavior problems and psychological…

Discusses the use of protocols, which are concise, written descriptions of preferred practice principles and procedures to be used by child welfare workers to ameliorate situations where mistakes or omissions may have serious consequences. Explains a procedure for development of protocols and presents an example. (NH)

Analysis of gymnastics judges scores of their own and other countries' gymnasts' performance during the 1984 Olympic Games indicated that the judges were biased in favor of their own country's gymnasts. (Author/CB)

A statistical experiment was conducted in an operational setting to determine the contributions of different sources of variability to the unreliability scoring of essays and other free-response questions. Partially balanced incomplete block designs facilitated the unbiased estimation of certain main effects without requiring readers to assess the…

Twenty normal-hearing, sighted subjects (ages 20-42) viewed soundless videotapes of a speaker reading lists from the two forms of the Utley Lipreading Test and three from Harris' revised Central Institute for the Deaf (CID) Everyday Sentences. Results do not support the interchange of Utley and CID sentences for test-retest comparisons of…

Implemented a method of abbreviating the Category Test of the Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Test Battery. The revision shortened the scales and reorganized Subtests 5 and 6 into two new scales using separate principles. Demonstrated it to be as accurate as the full test in predicting the presence or absence of brain damage in subjects.…

Examined descriptive information about marketing, enrollment management, institutional planning and factors affecting them. A factor analysis of statistically appropriate variables identified factors associated with a state of symbiosis between marketing and institutional planning. (Author/BL)

Computerized records are not necessarily accurate. Outlines how to do a short evaluation that checks the accuracy of student records. Includes discussion of how to improve student record-keeping. (MD)

Compared Kennedy and Elder's (1982) Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (Revised) regression model with Kaufman's (1976) linear equating model. Both the Kennedy and Elder, and the Kaufman abbreviated forms attained a high degree of association, suggesting that both models are equally effective. (Author/BL)

A small data set is used to show that correlations and standard deviations measured within an explicitly selected group need not be smaller than those within an applicant population. Both validity and reliability estimates within a selected group can exceed those within an applicant population. (Author/LMO)

An example demonstrates and explains that summary statistics commonly used to measure test quality can be seriously misleading and that summary statistics for the whole test are not sufficient for judging the quality of the test. (Author/LMO)

Describes the development of a highly reliable 28-item scale to measure rapport between college roommates. This instrument should be useful in both research and practice. (Author/BL)