Studies assessed the potential impact of health education messages at blood pressure screenings. Messages sought to motivate hypertensives to seek treatment and normotensives to improve health habits. Each participant viewed a standard or experimental program. Results indicate that the experimental programs were significantly more effective in…

Investigated validity of two- and four-subtest combinations as estimates of Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised (WAIS-R) Full Scale IQ among clients of low IQ (N=100). Concluded that the four-subtest form was superior as a screening device when complete administration of the WAIS-R is not feasible. (NRB)

Forty-nine states and the District of Columbia responded to a survey about early school screening, giving information about timing, sources of data, and content areas of screening programs. Responses indicate great variation at the state and local district levels, and confusion of screening with evaluation. Results are discussed in relation to…

The vision screening program has a long and interesting history involving educators, pediatricians, optometrists, and ophthamologists. This historical review of vision screening in the schools includes a discussion of amblyopia and screening of preschool students. (Author/CB)

A short screening battery, drawn from the Halstead-Reitan Battery, for differential identification of brain-damaged and healthychildren was developed. Results indicate the screening index had an accuracy rate of 92 percent in differentiating the brain-damaged subjects from the controls. When applied to validational groups, an 86 percent accuracy…

Investigated whether the predictive validity of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) could be enhanced by having subjects (N=600 students) complete current and projected BDI protocols. Results confirmed that BDI scores typically decline with repeated administrations, suggesting the BDI does not discriminate between stable and unstable forms of…

Reviews WISC-R factor analytic findings for developing a scheme for regrouping WISC-R subtests, consisting of verbal comprehension and spatial subtests. Subtests comprising these groupings are shown to have more common variance than specific variance and cluster together consistently across the samples of WISC-R scores. (Author/JAC)

Administered questionnaires to abusive (N=21) and nonabusive (N=21) employees to identify potential for institutional child abuse. Results corroborated earlier findings of institutional child abuse and demonstrated an attempt at developing an assessment tool needed to screen staff who are working with the developmentally disabled and children in…

An assessment approach for students with special needs includes an initial screening and a time sampling observation of the student in class. Observations are then used as discussion points with parents, children, and staff confidence; the approach nevertheless suffers from a lack of available classroom-based assessment programs. (CL)

Performed a principal axes factor anlaysis on Mini-Mult item data obtained from 249 medical and psychiatric patients. Six factors were extracted. Nonoverlapping summative scales were constructed and their reliabilities evaluated. The scales were recommended for applications in which it is desirable to avoid excessive item overlap. (JAC)

The Pre-Reading-Screening Procedures and the Slingerland Screening Tests for Identifying Children with Specific Language Disability were administered to 1021 grade one to six students. Results indicated that reliability and validity coefficients were acceptable and that educational programing decisions could confidently be based on the test…

This article discusses several important validation issues involved in teacher certification and presents a six-stage model for determining the job-relatedness of any screening test used for selecting or certifying teachers. This model is illustrated with examples from the research related to the National Teacher Examinations. (Author)

This study compared the effectiveness of the recently-developed Early Screening Profiles (ESP) with the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC), two screening tests designed to measure the cognitive, language, motor, and social development of preschool children. The tests were administered in counterbalanced order to a sample of 29…