The reliability and validity of the Judging Criteria Instrument as a measure of creativity in physics is examined. The instrument was found to be both reliable and valid. (JKS)

Changes in level of actualizing among counselor trainees at the Master's degree level as measured by the Personality Orientation Dimensions were examined. It was concluded that the instrument was sensitive to those changes. (Author/JKS)

TESTER, a computer program which produces individualized objective tests from a pool of items, is described. Available in both PL/1 and FORTRAN, TESTER may be executed either interactively or in batch. (Author/JKS)

Hoffman won his case on the basis of being misclassified, placed in a school for the mentally retarded, and thus deprived of 12 years of learning opportunities. School officials are appealing on the grounds that damages are excessive and that the adminstration of an IQ test contraindicates malpractice. (WI)

Reports on the development and testing of a measure of interpersonal communication satisfaction. The 19-item, unidimensional inventory is shown to exhibit a high degree of reliability and validity when used to measure communication satisfaction with actual and recalled conversations with another perceived to be a friend, acquaintance, or stranger.…

Four alternative cognitive assumptions concerning the fundamental meaning of events are presented: formism, or everyday thinking; mechanism, or experimental scientist's thinking; organicism, or systems thinking; and contextualism, or relational thinking. The measurement of individual preferences for these hypotheses and behavioral correlates of…

A set of quality of student life indicators was developed to provide a low cost, institutional research instrument capable of longitudinal, continuous broad-bandwidth monitoring, and data comparisons with traditional colleges. The instrument is multidimensional without dominant evaluative, halo, or response-effect factors. The test items and…

A set of Tests of Scientific Thinking were developed for possible use as criterion measures in research on creativity. Scores on the tests describe both quality and quantity of ideas produced in formulating hypotheses, evaluating proposals, solving methodological problems, and devising methods for measuring constructs. (Author/CTM)

Generalizability theory is used here to separate the ratings of courses by students into various components. Results indicate reliable findings when generalizing over students and items (to rate teachers and courses), and over students, items and courses (to rate teachers). (JKS)

This study reports the progress in developing and validating an instrument that can be used to measure critical aspects of a parent's attitudes and behavior that influence child development. This instrument should aid in reaching the goal of treating participants in parent education programs as individuals. (Editor/KC)

Describes the development of a standardized achievement test for high school horticulture students and analyzes resulting data from 37 high schools. Although the sample may not have been truly random, the test is felt to be sufficiently reliable and valid for use as a research and evaluation tool. (MF)

The test-retest reliability of criteria often used in diagnosing brain damage through the use of children's drawings was found to be low. A review of the literature showed different opinions on what drawing characteristics were indicative of brain damage. Low test-retest reliabilities may explain the variations in the literature. (Author/GDC)

Five studies are presented describing the development of a self-report inventory for measuring individual differences in learning processes. Factor analysis of items yielded four scales: Synthesis-Analysis, Study Methods, Fact Retention, and Elaborative Processing. There were no sex differences, and the scales demonstrated acceptable reliabilities…

The article describes the circumstances leading to the development of the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities and discusses the malpractices in administration, scoring, and interpretation of the test. (Author)

For a sample of seven and eight-year old Nigerian elementary pupils, validity coefficients of a modified matrix completion instrument entitled Modified Hall's Matrices, were determined relative to two achievement tests. The coefficients were quite high. (Author/JKS)