Ultimate Frisbee is a highly competitive noncontact sport similar to football or soccer, played by two teams of seven or more members. Various aspects of the game are described, including: (1) equipment; (2) playing field; and (3) the rules and scoring system. (JN)

The author discusses the dangers of using grade equivalency scores to identify learning disabled students. Deficiencies include that grade equivalents invite misleading interpretations, assume that the learning rate is constant throughout the school year, and exaggerate the significance of small differences in performance. Standard scores are…

This study was concerned with selecting a measure of scorer agreement for use with the National Assessment of Educational Progress. The simple percent of agreement and Cohen's kappa were compared. It was concluded that Cohen's kappa does not add sufficient information to make its calculation worthwhile. (Author/BW)

A new model for measuring misinformation is suggested. A modification of Wilcox's strong true-score model, to be used in certain situations, is indicated, since it solves the problem of correcting for guessing without assuming guessing is random. (Author/GK)

Results of this study suggest that children (ages 6-16) with a sufficient number of emotional indicators (three or more) to create a suspicion of emotional disturbance do not recall significantly fewer Bender designs than do children whose indicators fall within normal limits. (Author/SJL)

This study assessed the utility of Bannatyne's recategorization of the WISC-R with a group of 97 adjudicated adolescents who varied in intelligence. Findings affirmed the extension of Bannatyne's recategorization to samples other than genetic dyslexics and supported his major hypothesis of stronger spatial than sequential abilities. (Author/SJL)

Dato de Gruijter is correct in the recent conclusion that one equation derived by the present authors should be changed to reflect that it is an approximation, but it is still argued that percentile ranks for difficult tests can have substantially lower reliability and information relative to their number correct scores holds. (SLD)

Undergraduate business students completed two multiple-choice tests: one in which they indicated their answer and one of three levels of confidence, and one in which they circled the item only when they possessed high confidence in the answer. The three-level test took longer to take and grade; students preferred the second format. Both types…

Reports on the development and implementation of a rubric for assessing science process knowledge in grades K-6. Presents excerpts from interviews conducted with teachers applying this rubric to assess students' science process knowledge to substantiate claims about the usefulness of the rubric as an assessment tool. (Author/MM)

Discusses the difficulties many chemical engineering faculty face in assessing learning outcomes of education and explains the steps of rubric development which aims to assess students based on individual outcomes. (Contains 17 references.) (YDS)

Proposes that thematic projective techniques, such as Children's Apperception Test (CAT) may be useful in exploring children's perception of stress. Recommends need-threat analysis to identify underlying needs and threats likely to make event stressful to individual child. Introduces scoring system for CAT based on analysis of thematic data of…

Two-group classification is discussed when a unidimensional latent trait "theta" is appropriate for explaining data. If data have a monotone likelihood ratio, then optimal allocation rules can be based on its magnitude when allocation must be made to one of the two groups related to the unidimensional latent trait. (SLD)

The isotonic ordinal probabilistic model (ISOP) is introduced as a common nonparametric theoretical structure for unidimensional models for quantitative, ordinal, and dichotomous variables. Fundamental theorems on dichotomous and polytomous weakly independent ordered systems are derived, and testing at the observed empirical level is discussed.…

A FORTRAN program is described that aids in construction of screening tests by performing a type of Receiver Operating Characteristic analysis as well as calculating measures such as sensitivity and specificity. CUTOFF could be applied in any setting where the optional cutoff for separating persons into two classes is required. (Author/SLD)

Focuses on the practical effects of using different statistical treatments with omitted and not-reached items in an item-response theory application. The strategy selected for scoring such items has considerable impact on the interpretation of results for individual or group-level assessments. (Author/SLD)