This study was conducted to determine the relationship between the American College Test (A.C.T.) composite score and academic success or failure as indicated by the GPA and state-board licensing examination score of students and graduates at College of Lake County, Grayslake, Illinois LPN program. Subjects were 132 graduates and 34 currently…

Several tenets of mastery learning were examined in this study in the context of college level instruction. When students learn for mastery: (1) retention test scores should exhibit small variability and should be unrelated to aptitude; (2) test items which are classified into high and low cognitive behavior subscales should be unrelated to…

Asserting the importance of proper emphasis in curriculum content, this paper investigated some of the problems of present day training evaluation techniques, and described methods for analyzing training effectiveness through valid task analysis inventory data. Parametric and nonparametric statistical procedures were discussed, as well as a matrix…

This research investigated the effectiveness of the Hand Skills Test, or HST (motivation), Navy Activities Preference Blank (NAPB), and the Navy Adjectives List (NAL) on self-concept, in augmenting the validity of the Basic Test Battery (BTB) for predicting Class "A" enlisted school performance. The three noncognitive tests were…

In order to determine whether the kind of process underlying cloze responses is indeed a systematic and exhaustive search, a study was conducted exploring some corollaries to such a search hypothesis. It was assumed that subjects would generate responses representing a number of word types, that some of these word types would be sensible and some…

Two factor analyses were conducted on data obtained from measurements of the reasoning, moral judgment, and moral conduct of 75 retarded and 75 normal subjects ranging in age from 6 to 18 years. One factor analysis sought to determine relationships between the reasoning variables and standard measures of intelligence and achievement. A second…

To study the relationships among figural creativity, intelligence, and personality, 196 fourth, fifth, and sixth grade boys and girls were given a battery of 14 tests. Teacher ratings of creativity and independence, grade point averages, art grades, and IQ scores were also obtained. It was hypothesized that a unitary trait of…

Scores on standardized tests may be expressed in a variety of different modes. Raw scores, grade equivalents, percentile ranks, stanines, and standard scores are the major types in use today. The study investigated whether the mode or scale used to express scores affected the magnitude of group statistics, specifically, t and r (the t-test of the…

A need existed to develop a graphic procedure to predict student success in 2-year engineering technology programs, based on ACT scores and high school grades. The study stemmed from the need to help students identify their chances of success, to help students clarify their goals, and to indicate needed institutional responses. Regression analysis…

Evidence regarding the contribution of the various elements in a standard admissions battery to forecasts of freshman-year performance in eight College Research Center (CRC)-member colleges is presented. Particular note is made of evidence that the CEEB Achievement Average contributes substantially more than do the SAT scores to prediction of…

The evidence used in condemning a test as racially biased is usually a validity coefficient for one racial group that is significantly different from that of another racial group. However, both variables in the calculation of a validity coefficient should be examined to determine where the bias lies. A study was conducted to investigate the…

This paper describes the development of a criterion-referenced test. The Prescriptive Mathematics Inventory (PMI) was developed to measure 400 stated behavioral objectives. The test consists of three overlapping levels with the objectives chosen to cover 90 to 95 per cent of the mathematics curriculum nominally taught in grades 4 through 8. Each…

We concern ourselves with the hypothesis that two variables have a perfect disattenuated correlation, hence measure the same trait except for errors of measurement. This hypothesis is equivalent to saying, within the adopted model, that true scores of two psychological tests satisfy a linear relation. Statistical tests of this hypothesis are…

A general history of the Grade 5 Educational Assessment Package of Pennsylvania is given followed by the guidelines for analysis of the data. The statistical procedures used are described, as are the sample and the sample selection process. Correlations between grade 5 and grade 7 scores are given and show the greatest stability in cognitive…

The development of scales to measure Mexican American identification with their population is discussed in this paper. The scales measure (1) identification with the Mexican American population using attitudinal items (Identity Scale) and (2) interaction behavior with the Mexican American population (Interaction Scale). The sample consisted of all…