An approach to studying children's strategies in social interactions and in material tasks has been developed for use with children 3 through 6 years of age. The Children's Strategies Assessment System (CSAS) provides both a time and an event sample of behaviors and records children's strategies under each of five constructs: involvement,…

At Napa Junior College (California), to test the relationship between college attendance and personality change, 100 volunteers were measured in their first year by the STEP Reading Exam and the ACE Psychological Exam. California Psychological Inventory (CPI) showed a significant range in personality traits from high to low ability students. The…

Two ways of interpreting raw test data are norm-referencing and criterion-referencing; the former yields information based on some type of ordering of the person on the person's dimension, while the latter tells whether or not students can exhibit a given performance. Criterion-referenced information can be ordered into a criterion-referenced…

This guide for the interpretation of results of Individually Prescribed Instruction (IPI), designed to assess the degree of implementation of IPI for each school and teacher, is composed of inquiries to be made on the use of diagnostic instruments and the teacher resources of materials and settings. (SP)

Three experimental peer rating forms were developed for use in research in prediction of the aviation training performance criterion--completion/attrition--from the training program for Aviation Warrant Officer Candidates at the U.S. Army Helicopter School. This paper describes the construction of the ratings, the "Potential Aviator…

This paper summarizes a review of the recent literature in search of evidence for the validity of industrial assessment centers. The topic is divided into two parts: (1) the evidence regarding the validity of several of the individual assessment techniques that are used in industrial assessment centers; and (2) the evidence concerning the validity…

The handbook covers a comprehensive series of Job-Task Performance Tests for the Doppler Radar (AN/APN) and its Associated Computer (AN/ASN-35). The test series has been developed to measure job performance of the electronic technician. These tests encompass all phases of day-to-day preventative and corrective maintenance that technicians are…

A discussion of the Discrepancy Analysis System, which identifies the difference in expected performance and actual performance as revealed by testing. (Author/HB)

Using 68 students in professional education coursework, the study determined whether accomplishment of performance objectives determined by satisfactory performance on unit tests during instruction was related to the student's performance on an end-of-course retention test. Evidence supported the assignment of grade credit based on objective…

Results of this study suggest that physical endurance may be enhanced if movement is rhythmically coordinated with a musical stimulus. (JD)

Data from two separate experiments conducted to ascertain the optimum protocol for a maximum anaerobic work output test on the bicycle ergometer indicated that the test duration needs to be approximately forty seconds and the optimal frictional resistance five to six kilograms. (MB)

Explores the testing technique of practical extemporaneous speech finals for students enrolled in the fundamentals course and emphasizes the objectives, procedures and evaluation criteria for such an approach. (MH)

Results of a study comparing three- to five-minute dictations indicate that as the length of dictation increased, accuracy achievement decreased. Suggestions are: (1) one-minute dictation tests be used as speed-building (but not testing) devices, and (2) evaluations include occasional five-minute tests as well as three-minute tests. (SC)

On the initial trial of two tasks there was no difference among performance of premedical students, dropouts from premedical programs, and liberal arts students. However under competitive conditions, premedical students showed greater improvement in performance than did premedical dropouts who showed greater improvement than did liberal arts…