Suggestions for adapting NAEP procedures for local use are based on the assumptions that instructional decisions can be improved through systematic gathering of data and that every student is not tested. (Author/KM) Aspect of National Assessment (NAEP) dealt with in this document: Procedures (Utilization).

The present paper reported on a study designed to test two null hypothesis, first, the prediction that there was no difference in attitudes held by heterosexually and homosexually oriented males, second, there would be no difference in attitudes held by covert and overt male homosexuals. (Author/RK)

The present study attempted to replicate the finding (Frase, 1973) that different organizations of a passage produce different levels of recall and also to determine if relevant learning might be less subject to these organizational effects than incidential learning. (Author)

This essay assesses the level of difficulty at which defined job tasks are performed by college or university presidents in light of certain variables. (Author)

The purposes of the present study were to compare the scores obtained by boys and girls on the McCarthy Scales of Children's Abilities (MSCA) and to assess differences in their abilities on the tests that constitute these Scales. (Author/RK)

Since an author's use of articles and (personal) pronouns is particularly sensitive to the variation in the degree of formality of his writing, it might seem that the terms of the opposition (romance, novel) might be quantitatively distinquished, using information about articles and pronouns. Author attempts such a project. (Author/RK)

Research tested the hypothesis that homogeneous subject groups would produce test responses with better homogeneity indices than those of the parent sample from which they were drawn. (Author)

In this paper consideration is given to the nature of the relationships among items within item forms and how these relationships compare with an ideal case for diagnostic tests in which if a person gets one item within an item form right then he would get all items within the item form correct. (Authors)

Investigated empirically through post mortem item-examinee samplings were the relative merits of two alternative procedures for allocating items to subtests in multiple matrix sampling and the feasibility of using the jackknife in approximating standard errors of estimate. (Editor)

The broad objective of this study then, is to attempt to discover whether a set of environmental variables presumably of significance for cognitive growth, generates similar factor structures across groups of varying socioeconomic status. (Author)

Article discusses the desirability and feasability of establishing a national data bank for student mental health. (Author/RK)

This study was undertaken to determine the incidence of asymptomatic gonorrhea in sexually active women attending an outpatient gynecology clinic in a large university health service. (Author)

Instrumentation for the measurement of pollutant emissions is considered including sample-site selection, sample transport, sample treatment, sample analysis, and data reduction, display, and interpretation. Measurement approaches discussed involve sample extraction from within the stack and electro-optical methods. (BL)

Using the Semantic Differential, 274 first-year university students rated four concepts concerning university, producing scores on evaluation', potency' and activity'. For comparision these concepts were each paired with a concept relating to school. (Author)