The Bologna Process presents both opportunities and challenges for teachers in the European area. As tensions surface between different forms of national legislation, accreditation and quality assurance, projects need to be developed that model ways of resolving problems within a European context. Utilising their links and network of contacts…

Author looks into the workings of the Oxford and Cambridge Schools Examination Board. (Editor/RK)

Determines whether kind of test used in personality assessment is an important factor in influencing the extent to which subjects accept the interpretation made by a psychologist and clarifies the importance of the status of the test-interpreter by eliminating a status-experimenter confound contained within the Snyder and Larsen (1972) study.…

The JMB, Syllabus B, O level oral examination in French is commented on by an ex-examiner. Mention is made of ways in which candidates lose marks and of the need for teachers to know more about the marking system. (RM)

The results from the Oral Reading Test developed for the Early Childhood Education Program evaluation provided the opportunity to study some of the factors that might influence student's test-taking behavior. The Oral Reading Test requires individual students to demonstrate reading skills by reading aloud sentences typical of various grade level…

The objective of this study was to determine the effects of examiner variables such as language, ethnicity, and sex in the measurement of the self-concept of Spanish-speaking migrant pupils. The sample consisted of 169 Spanish-speaking migrant pupils, aged 10 to 12, in a Migratory Children's 1971 Summer Program. These subjects came from 5…

The purpose of the study was to consider the relationship of type of intelligence test, examiner group membership, and language dominance of children to the performance of 25 Mexican American children (mean age 5 years) on intelligence tests. (Author)

Suggests that interracial differences in mean IQ might be erased depending upon the social psychological characteristics of the test setting and the socioeconomic background of the testee. (Author/DEP)

Sources for thinking about and doing new paradigm research are reviewed. A variety of nontraditional approaches that address the role of subjectivity and consensus in research are discussed. The effect of personal and social processes on the researcher, including how one's construction of reality depends on the chosen methodology, is emphasized.…

Manipulated three types of examiners and four types of data in order to study the examiner effect on self-reports of drug use by students (N=152). Analyses revealed that type of examiner, sex, and year in school had a significant three way interaction affecting self-reports of drug use. (Author/BH)

Argues that anthologists and examiners have exerted a precise and limiting influence over both the range of contemporary poetry available for study in British schools and the terms on which that poetry is open for discussion. (MM)

The Cooperative School and College Ability Test was administered to 10 black and 10 white in the seventh and eighth grades at an inner-city school in Rochester, New York using either a manual or a computerized procedure, in order to determine if black performance improves in a computerized testing environment. (JM)

On the basis of this study, a tentative hypothesis may be formed: Teacher sex per se is not a major variable in the higher incidence of reading disability among boys. (Author)

Study was an attempt to evaluate the West African Examinations Council efforts in terms of the extent to which its marking procedures have ensured high reader reliability for the English Language Essay examination, a test which was designed to measure writing ability. (Author)

The purpose of the study was to determine (a) whether there are differences in the way in which Negro and white experimenters interact with Negro and white subjects; and (b) whether such differences influence performance on tests of motor impulse control, reflectivity, innovative behavior, and curiosity. (Authors)