Extended the content validity of the communicative adaptability construct to include the following dimensions: social composure, articulation, wit, and appropriate disclosure. Administered the Communicative Adaptability Scale to teacher and student populations and found a stable factor structure and consistent results across samples. (PD)

Concludes that individuals can read unfamiliar but relatively easy material at high rates with high accuracy of comprehension, but they do not provide strong support for rauding theory. (FL)

A familism scale was seen to contain two potential weaknesses. These two weaknesses have been remedied by cross-validation procedures and a test-retest rewording procedure. New results tend to support the scale's validity. (Author)

Suggests that the idea of testing be given up, along with the measurement of reading and the idea of reading progress. (AM)

A natural experiment dramatically reveals that scores on a difficult standardized mathematics aptitude test predicts achievement in mathematics over a 2 or 3-year period considerably better than the judgment of the students' present mathematics teacher. (Author/AM)

The author describes a test developed to assess elementary school teachers' knowledge of venereal diseases. (GW)

Hypothesizes that psychologists would give higher IQ estimates (1) to black and to Mexican-American children than to white children; (2) to lower-class than to middle-class children; and (3) to profiles with much scatter than to profiles with limited scatter. (Author/RK)

In order to clarify the concurrent validity of the Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT) and the Metropolitan Achievement Test (MAT), product-moment correlations were computed for all subscores and total scores for 26 normal-range public school third-grade girls and boys. (Author)

None of the several objective indices of cultural bias shows any significant indication of bias in any of the standardized tests of intelligence examined when they are used with blacks and whites. (Author/IRT)

Vocational interests, attitudes, and aspirations of retarded clients has been shown to be significant to rehabilitation counseling. Two recently developed techniques--the Vocational Interest and Sophistication Assessment (VISA) and the Reading-Free Vocational Interest Inventory (RFVII)--are discussed as potentially useful tools in assessing…

The scales of the Self-Directed Search (SDS) were correlated with the scales of the Armed Forces Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) for a sample of 192 high school girls. The two devices have small to moderate correlations that indicate self-reported abilities and competencies have some concurrent validity. (Author)

This manual describes development and use of the revised "Scales for Rating the Behavioral Characteristics of Superior Students" (SRBCSS-R), a teacher judgment instrument appropriate for use as one measure in the identification of gifted students. Part 1 explains the judgmental and empirical procedures used to revise the items on the original…

Item writing is a major responsibility of trainers. Too often, qualified staff who prepare lessons carefully and teach conscientiously use inadequate tests that do not validly reflect the true level of trainee achievement. This monograph describes techniques for constructing multiple-choice items that measure student performance accurately. It…