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DEJUNG, JOHN E.; HARING, NORRIS G. – 1962
A SOCIOMETRIC TEST WAS USED TO COMPARE THE SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE OF MENTAL RETARDATES IN THE GRADE SCHOOL SPECIAL CLASSES AND THE REGULAR CLASSES. MODIFIED SYRACUSE SCALES OF SOCIAL RELATIONS (SSSR) WERE ADMINISTERED IN TEST-RETEST DESIGN TO 400 CHILDREN. AN EXAMINATION WAS MADE OF THE FOUR SPECIAL NEEDS SCALES. CONCLUSIONS DRAWN FROM THE DATA…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Behavior Rating Scales, Comparative Testing, Elementary School Students
Download full textElsworth, Gerald R.; Coulter, Frank – 1977
This monograph reports the development of a semantic differential designed to measure professional self perception in student teachers. Seven scales were identified by factor analysis of the responses of 396 student teachers to 56 adjectival pairs used to rate the concepts "Myself,""Myself as I would like to be,""Myself as…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Evaluation Criteria, Factor Structure, Foreign Countries
Harder, David W.; And Others – 1979
The role played by stress in the prognosis of schizophrenia is not entirely clear. It has been suggested that high premorbid stress levels before first-time psychiatric admission for schizophrenia will be related to better outcome. Subjects, first-time psychiatric admissions classified as schizophrenic by either Schneider's First Rank Symptoms,…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Affective Behavior, Coping, Emotional Adjustment
Tollefson, Nona; And Others – 1980
The effect of two student characteristics (sex and grade point average) and two class variables (educational level and expected grade) were investigated as they pertain to the validity of college student ratings of teaching effectiveness. Students completed the Teacher Effectiveness Questionnaire (TEQ) the last week of the semester. The TEQ…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Grade Point Average, Grades (Scholastic), Higher Education
Epstein, Ira – 1980
A reading program's effectiveness can be assessed by investigating skills improvement together with attitude improvement. Frequently, teachers make questionable assumptions about student reading attitudes. To provide educators with a more accurate picture of students' expressed feelings, students' attitudes toward reading should be measured with…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Evaluation Criteria, Interviews, Measurement Techniques
Siegel, Arthur I.; And Others – 1980
A description of the perceptual/psychomotor ability requirements for performing the tasks of various Air Force career fields was sought. An analysis of the literature relating to taxonomies, measurement considerations and job analyses yielded a taxonomy containing thirteen perceptual/psychomotor classes along with techniques for collecting the…
Descriptors: Classification, Job Analysis, Perception Tests, Perceptual Motor Coordination
Brown, Frederick G. – 1980
This monograph serves as a nontechnical guide to teachers, counselors, school psychologists, administrators, parents, and others who use the 1974 Standards for Educational and Psychological Tests. The Standards are a concise summary of standards and guidelines for the development, evaluation, interpretation, use, and reporting of information on…
Descriptors: Codes of Ethics, Educational Testing, Guidelines, Psychological Testing
Bloom, Robert; Arnold, Katherine M. – 1979
Undergraduate females were classified either as traditional or nontraditional in their views of appropriate occupations for women, based upon scores on Spence and Helmreich's Attitudes Toward Women Scale. Each group was then administered an occupationally stereotyped or a non-stereotyped version of Horner's Item Test (describing Anne who is a…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Correlation, Fear of Success, Females
Bessemer, David W.; Spencer, Mary L. – 1975
As part of the development of a functional literacy test for fourth through eigth grade children in Title I compensatory education programs, this report defines functional literacy for children and enumerates criteria for evaluating existing tests. Criteria for selection of a test include: (1) content, empirical, and construct validity; (2)…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Computation
Steele, Joe M. – 1979
The College Outcome Measures Project (COMP) was established to develop, validate, and implement measures of the knowledge and skills that undergraduate students are expected to acquire and that are important to effective adult functioning. The COMP Measurement Battery yields a "communicating" score based in part on a speaking assessment…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Daily Living Skills, Educational Research, Evaluation Methods
Reavis, H. Kenton; And Others – 1977
The document presents the final report of a project to develop and validate a three-phase system of individualized criterion-referenced assessment instruments to provide professional decision makers with reliable information regarding a mentally handicapped person's skill level at different stages of normalization training. An overview of…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Daily Living Skills, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled), Evaluation Methods
Schaefer, Earl S.; Edgerton, Marianna – 1979
Parent educational beliefs, behaviors, and values and family sociodemographic characteristics were analyzed to clarify antecedents of children's adaptation to school and academic achievement. Extensive parent interviews, test data, and teacher ratings during kindergarten, and achievement test scores during first grade, were collected for a sample…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Demography, Educational Attitudes, Elementary School Students
Skoczylas, Rudolph V. – 1972
The English Phonemic Unit Test measures the ability to produce difficult English sounds which must be mastered to speak English well. The test has been used with students from kindergarten to college. The instument was consensually validated by bilingual specialists, after analyzing the test according to contrastive analysis procedures applied to…
Descriptors: Answer Sheets, Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Higher Education
McNutt, Dorothy Ellen – 1976
Major questions addressed in this study were (1) What is the educative purpose of cooperative education (CE) courses in postsecondary business programs? and (2) What are the essential objectives which will receive appropriate recognition and accreditation from the educational and accrediting community? A survey instrument containing sixteen…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Business Education, Cooperative Education, Course Content
Baker, Robert F.; And Others – 1978
This document contains the third of five volumes reporting the activities and results of a career education evaluation project conducted to accomplish the following two objectives: (1) to improve the quality of evaluations by career education projects funded by the United States Office of Career Education (OCE) through the provision of technical…
Descriptors: Career Education, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation
