An approach to testing reading comprehension among Dutch speaking university students of German for academic purposes is described. The test items were designed to reflect the most typical comprehension errors made by speakers of Dutch when reading German academic discourse. The most frequent errors were due to vocabulary and declension…

The Dual Employed Coping Scales (DECS) were developed to measure coping behaviors and patterns of dual-employed families. The original DECS (58 self-report items) was administered to a sample of 60 individuals in dual-employed families. In another study, in which 69 dual-employed couples completed the DECS and the Family Adaptability and Cohesion…

The Regents Competency Program has two basic purposes: (1) to assure the early identification of students who need help in developing reading, writing, and mathematics skills and (2) to assure that students have acquired adequate competency in these skills before receiving a high school diploma. The New York State Preliminary Competency Test in…

Alternate forms of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) were administered five separate times to 57 men and women of military service age. The objective was to determine to what extent means and cross-session correlations are stable over several administrations. Ten individual subtests, the derived ASVAB area composites and the…

A comparison was made of Durrell Analysis of Reading Difficulty and informal reading inventory (IRI) independent and instructional level designations for 15 children, aged 9 to 11 years, who had been referred to a diagnostic clinic for reading assessment. The children's reading performance was first scored according to procedures outlined in the…

Intended to provide information about the development of the Economics Values Inventory (EVI), the report describes considerations that directed development of test items and provides indicators of the reliability and validity of the proposed test instrument. The EVI is recommended as an effective measuring instrument in experimental evaluations…

This bulletin describes the technical adequacy of the Florida Teacher Certification Examination and includes discussions on establishing test reliability, test validity, passing scores, and protecting the test from cultural or ethnic bias. Chapter I describes the development of the examination: (1) development, identification, and validation of…

A project provided teachers and other school personnel with a set of practical instruments for assessing students' generalizable mathematics skills in the secondary vocational training programs in Illinois. The major accomplishments of the project were advisory committee identification and selection; population and sample identification and…

This paper presents an evaluation of Army job training development and testing practices, with a focus on Advanced Individual Testing. Information comes from intensive interviews with school instructors and from observations in the schools. Results indicate that some aspects of the Instructional Systems Development (ISD) model have been…

This paper discusses a survey which was conducted to determine what licensers in different states say to parents who call them seeking help in selecting a day care program for their children, and confirms the assumption that parents have few resources available to help them select good day care. A questionnaire regarding the kinds of information…

A study was conducted to construct a preliminary version of a shortened form of the Occupation Analysis Inventory (OAI:SF). (The OAI is an instrument containing 622 work elements which are descriptions of work activities and conditions on which jobs and occupations are rated. The work elements were generated within a broad framework of five…

The reliability of the two most widely used course evaluation instruments at Indiana University was examined. The 38-item Form A, a modification of a course-evaluation instrument reported by Hildebrand and Wilson, at the University of California at Davis, asked students to rate instructors on a seven-point scale, from excellent to poor. The…

Faculty of the education department of a midwestern university were rated as teachers by both students and peers, and ranked by peers as to their effectiveness in service and research. Student ratings were gathered from three questions on The Student Description of Teaching form, which concerned assessment of the teacher, the is appended. Access…

This document presents proceedings of a 1976 conference on the assessment of teaching competence in special education teachers. The concerns identified for discussion were: (1) instruments for assessing interpersonal competencies in preservice special education students; (2) instruments for assessing teaching competencies in noninterpersonal…