Validity and reliability studies of the Bullen Reading Attitude Measure (BRAM) were conducted on 291 white children in twelve classes in two schools, grades one through six, in Fall River, Massachusetts. The instrument's validity was obtained by measuring the correspondence between respondents' answers given on the attitude subtests and their…

Observational instruments were developed for measuring the visual attention and verbal reactions of children watching "The Electric Company." Using the instruments, ten primary school classrooms, representing a broad range of classroom structures, were observed five or six times. The measures of attention proved to be reliable, and…

To learn what essay titles appealed to seventh grade students, 40 female and 52 male California students rated each of 100 essay titles according to their interest in writing a composition based on that title. Also, the study was designed to contrast the title preferences of male, female, intellectually-bright, and intellectually-dull subgroups…

The paper surveys the costs of interest-inventory revision and concludes that, ultimately, the elimination of sex bias in career interest inventories will depend on project funding. After the issues of criterion sample, item pool, instructional orientation, interpretation, and legality have been settled, researchers and publishers will have the…

The Test Collection Bulletin is a quarterly digest of information on tests and test related services and activities. Each issue lists acquisitions to the E-T-S-Test Collection, an extensive library of tests, questionnaires, record and report forms and other assessment devices. In this issue are 147 measures of achievement, aptitude, personality…

The purpose of this study was to experimentally ascertain the effect of career information, with and without audio distraction, on the attitudes and knowledge of students whose interests are similar to or different from successful industrial art teachers. The investigation involved 201 11th grade male students from six randomly selected public…

This study of predictive validities of Academic Interest Measures (AIM) is based on a follow-up through Grade 12 and one year after high school graduation, of students tested in Grade 11. Major topics considered are: prediction of both marks and interests in Grades 12 and 13, emphasizing differential prediction; structure of abilities, interests…

The construction and early validation of an ipsative, forced-choice vocational interest inventory (VII) to measure Roe's eight foci of occupational activity is detailed. Designed for counseling the broad range of high school students, the VII produced consistently interpretable mean profiles for groups of high school juniors having only tentative…

A sampling of "Change" readers taken to identify higher education's most admired people, literature, and institutions, is presented. Included are ratings for three major reports on undergraduate education, confidence in organizations that play key roles in higher education, and best book about higher education. (MLW)

A 27-item measure assessed college peer environments in terms of friends' interests as perceived by individual students. Four dimensions of interests were identified in cluster analyses: collegiate activities, intellectual pursuits, apathy or alienation, and traditional adult orientation. These dimensions were related to social, psychological, and…

Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory items which differentiated between males and females by more than nine percentage points were removed in an attempt to develop a unisex occupational scale for pharmacists. The remaining items formed a unisex scale nearly as reliable and valid as the original, over short term periods. (MH)

Examines how the Media Group helped coordinate the implementation of technology for vocational education within the Hungarian World Bank project. (AEF)

This special issue includes the following: "Introduction"; "Interest Inventories: Which One, Why, and for Whom?"; "Recent Reports from the Committee to Screen Career Guidance Instruments"; "Assessment of Career Specialty Interests in Business and Medicine"; "Using Career Interest Inventories with…

Evaluates the participation of eighth and ninth grade females in an Expanding Your Horizons Conference to address the problem of lack of interest by minority and female students in mathematics, science, and related careers. Evaluation survey responses indicated that 50 percent of the participants thought they would need more courses in mathematics…

The purpose of this study was to analyze the effects of the Internet as a research tool on elementary students' quality of writing, their perceptions of effort expended, and their resource media preference in writing an expository paper. We gathered data from 56 upper-elementary students as they wrote expository papers using print resources,…