The purpose of the study was to determine whether WPPSI is a valid and reliable instrument for the measurement of the intelligence of children whose scores fall within the upper range as measured by the Stanford-Binet. The results of this study indicated that there was only a moderate relationship between the two. (Author)

This study was submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Ed.D. degree at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Data from the WAIS, WISC, and WPPSI Standardization samples were used to reappraise validity of all short forms of two, three, four, and five subtests. Results were compared with those given by McNemar's formula. The corrected formula gave lower values and selected "best short forms that differed from McNemar's formula. (Author)

The reliability and stability of the Full Scale IQ scores of retarded adolescents and young adults of three Wechsler Scales were measured. (Author)

Validity and reliability of a videotaped speechreading test, "Eyes and Spoken Language," designed to assess how effectively a person utilizes linguistic constraints in responding to spoken language via the visual pathway, were established using responses of 68 nonhearing impaired young adults. A significant learning effect was…

A three-facet (items, forms, and testing occasions) random effects generalizability analysis was used to evaluate the precision of each of the five domain measures of the Sex-Role Egalitarianism Scale. The recently developed scale measures attitudes toward the equality of males and females. (Author/PN)

The construct validity of the Role Questionnaire (Rizzo, et al.) for teachers was assessed through an analysis of the complete responses of a randomly selected sample of 448 Massachusetts teachers. The results of this cross-validation provide support for the construct validity of the questionnaire. (Author/PN)

The effect of a season of little league baseball on the self-esteem of 94 pre-adolescent players was investigated. The Coopersmith Self-esteem Inventory and a newly devised Baseball-Self scale were administered. Significant improvements in players' total Self-esteem, Home-Parents and School-Academic scores were found. (Author/PN)

Eight asymptotically robust tests of population correlation coefficient equality are proposed and are studied along with two parametric tests. Monte Carlo simulation is used to compare the small sample performance of these ten procedures. The sampled distributions consist of the normal distribution, two mixed normal distributions and four…

This study investigates four widely used methods of collecting direct similarity judgments for nonmetric multidimensional scaling: rating scale, triads, rank order of pairs, and conditional rank order. (Author/PN)

Indicates that the Rix modification of the Lix Readability Formula is easy to calculate, correlates highly with other popular formulas, and is useful for materials for grades 3 through 12. (AEA)