Reports the reliability and concurrent validity of both the trait and state forms of the Multiple Affect Adjective Check List (MAACL) with a high school population, age range of 14-16 years and educational range of 9th and 10th grades (N=403). Findings indicate the MAACL is sufficiently reliable and valid to warrant additional use with an…

Test-retest stability of the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC) was investigated over a 5 1/2-month interval for 42 Mexican-American preschool/kindergarten children. Results indicated stability coefficients for K-ABC Global scales and subtests were generally of adequate magnitudes providing some evidence that the K-ABC is a relatively…

Argues that attempts to assess racial identity via single variables trivialize the construct. Suggests that problems with the manner in which the Racial Identity Attitude Scale was used in the Pomales, Claiborn, and LaFromboise (1985) study contributed to possible problems in scale reliability and interpretation. (Author/ABB)

Examined whether less experienced judges could also produce accurate estimates of the validity of cognitive tests. Shows that the estimates of less experienced judges contain less information than those of experts, but also that average of estimates of several less experienced judges are as accurate as those obtained from small-sample empirical…

Points out the difficulty in judging a student's writing ability on the basis of one piece of writing. Suggests alternative evaluation procedures. (EL)

The Southern California Perceptual Motor Tests were examined due to questions about test validity and because they were being used in the development of Individualized Education Programs. A factor analysis was made based on the subjects' performances on individual test items. Findings are discussed. (Author/DF)

The Behavior Objective Checklist, (BOC) a measure to determine social/emotional/behavioral goals and objectives on the Individualized Education Program, was administered to 27 psychiatric day or inpatient children (preschool-grade six). Analysis suggested adequate reliability and validity for the BOC. (CL)

Questions repeatedly arise about whether evaluations of research papers are systematically influenced by factors unrelated to quality, such as gender or prestige of the authors or reviewers. This study examined the reliability of reviews of proposals submitted for inclusion in the 1984 American Educational Research Association annual meeting…

The Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children is reviewed in terms of technical and theoretical aspects, the issue of cultural bias, its procedure for comparing cognitive performance and academic achievement, and its predictive validity for academic achievement. The paper concludes by summarizing the test's characteristics that should be considered…

Presents data on the translation, reliability, concurrent validity, and norms of the Spanish, Hebrew, and Chinese versions of three equivalent forms of the Depression Adjective Check Lists, compared with the English version. Reliability estimates for the four versions were quite similar in magnitude. (NRB)

Provides new American age norms for Raven's Progressive Matrices, based on screening of 500 vocational counseling and 2,992 psychiatric veteran patients newly admitted to hospital. Reliability data were acceptable, but indicated need for revision of the Raven. Within limits set by current reliability, validity data presented were positive.…

Presents an overview of qualitative methods, an analysis of the relationship between qualitative and quantitative approaches in social and cultural research, and a brief discussion of the issues of reliability, validity, and researcher objectivity in qualitative research. Discusses the application of qualitative methods to occupational therapy,…

Confirms previous findings that the word recognition criterion for instructional reading level should be set at about 95 percent for students reading at grade levels one through six. (FL)

The Vowel Matching Test (VMT) measures primary grade children's ability to discriminate medial vowel sounds. Based on the responses of 43 first-grade pupils, the results indicated that the VMT correlated .76 with a word recognition test. It exhibited an internal consistency coefficient of .78. (Author/BW)

This paper provides a list of 10 salient features of the standard error of measurement, contrasting it to the reliability coefficient. It is concluded that the standard error of measurement should be regarded as a primary characteristic of a mental test. (Author/DWH)