Language teaching typically reflects current research, and, until quite recently, grammatical competence (e.g., in the Chomskyan sense) was the major target of linguistic research. Emphasizing the spoken language, the term "fluency," as applied to the foreign language performance of a language learner, is correlated to foreign language…

English teachers and the English Department are in danger of losing their identity. This paper describes the problems that English departments can expect in the future. Faced with budgetary cutbacks and public demands for teaching basic skills and for minimum-competency tests, future English department administrators and teachers will be expected…

This is a bibliography of post-graduate theses on language and linguistics in Irish university libraries, from 1915 to 1976. The 537 entries are listed by author and indexed by subject and language. In addition, each entry contains the following information: degree, year, and university. An appendix contains theses completed outside of Ireland…

This paper describes Project HELP (Highlighting Early Learning Problems) stated to have been designed to determine or to develop a battery of screening instruments to identify those K-1 students who manifest learning problems indicative of exceptionality. The purposes, objectives, and a summary of the types of evaluation questions the study sought…

The purpose of this study was to determine if the California Test of Personality and Rokeach's Dogmatism Scale could be used as screening instruments for Air Force Security Police. Thirty-six Air Force Security Police assigned to TUSLOG Det 94-2, Turkey comprised the sample for this study. The variables measured by the instruments--personal…

This two-day conference heard from leaders on national trends in health manpower, with particular emphasis on the granting of equivalency credit for relevant experience. Presentations were made under these areas: opening doors to health careers, national trends in allied health testing, innovative approaches to allied health equivalency testing in…

The purposes of the project were: (1) to determine if equality of educational opportunity exists for students in grades K-6 in the Rhinelander, Wisconsin, school district; and (2) to develop a model for elementary school program evaluation. Learner achievement of instructional objectives was accepted as the basic indicator of equality of…

The purpose of the project was to develop evaluation, guidance, and tutorial services to maximize the previous health related experience and education of people and to enable them to be placed, with advanced standing, into an existing practical nursing program. Because each student comes into a program with certain knowledge and abilities, Project…

The goal of this research project was to design a personality test which would help select, guide, and place prospective teachers into situations where they would be happiest and most effective. A Developmental Self and Child Concept Scales (DSCCS) test was developed and administered to 81 women attending a graduate teacher training program. In…

The purpose of this study was to develop and validate an instrument to assess the creativity of a student through the products he creates. The instrument was called the Judging Criteria Instrument (JCI). This instrument was administered to 33 general physics students. Multiple criteria of teacher judgment scores and Torrance Tests of Creative…

This study identified variables which would predict first semester grade point average of nursing students. A variety of academic, psychological, and sociological data were obtained for 630 students attending three schools of nursing within the state of Indiana over a three-year period. High school grade point average, Nelson-Denny vocabulary…

As part of the Quality Assurance procedures, a final test was administered to a sample of the classes participating in the 1970-71 Instructional Concepts Program (ICP). The posttest was designed to measure end-of-program performance on each of the six program outcomes: Color, Shape, Size, Position, Amount, and Pre-Mathematics. This report…

This report describes the midterm and final tests administered to pupils in the Quality Assurance classes using the Learning Mastery System (LMS). Results are reported separately for both the Bank Street and Harper & Row versions of LMS. Means, standard deviations, and frequency distributions are given for the subscores and total for each test…

This is the report of a conference on accountability that was sponsored by the U.S. Office of Education and administered by the Cooperative Accountability Project with the advice and assistance of the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers. The purpose of the conference was to provide a meeting place in which…

Presented is a guide designed to provide information on 27 perceptual-motor and psychomotor tests and scales for use with handicapped children so that valid and informed decisions can be made in selecting test instruments for prescriptive and diagnostic purposes. The guide is comprised of one section on motor ability, perceptual-motor development,…