Employee theft is widespread and difficult to detect. Many companies have attempted to control the employee theft problem through pre-employment screening. The use of paper-and-pencil honesty tests in this process has become increasingly common. These two studies empirically investigated job applicants' (N=450) reactions to taking a pre-employment…

The estimates of employees who steal range from approximately 20 percent to 40 percent. While researchers are still attempting to quantify both the total frequency and cost of employee theft, the existence of meaningful amounts of theft by employees is widely accepted. Professionally developed pre-employment honesty tests do not appear to infringe…

Blood cholesterol was measured in 750 teenagers between the ages of 12 and 19 as a screening method for hyperlipidemia, which (along with hypertension and cigarette smoking) is a major factor in the onset of coronary heart disease. (MJB)

Demonstrates the complexities and processes involved in constructing a screening test for posttraumatic stress disorder. Discusses item development, field testing, and preliminary results from administration of the Stress Event Test. Concludes that useful instruments can be designed out of one's experience as a practitioner. (Author/NB)

Examines the effectiveness of selected assessment and screening procedures for identifying successful and unsuccessful participants in employment and training programs conducted by the Program for Assessment, Counseling, and Employment of the Young Men's Christian Association of Greater New York. (Author)

Performed confirmatory factor analysis on data collected from 244 undergraduates to develop a 38-item short form of the University Residence Environment Scale. (Author)

Concludes that while the screening test consists of well-designed and carefully standardized items, its overwhelming preponderance of visual-motor tasks minimizes its usefulness in screening for possible school learning problems. Suggests that it might best be used by therapists working with children in treatment facilities that follow a medical…

An identification procedure to distinguish between beginning stutterers and normally disfluent children, "A Protocol for Differentiating the Incipient Stutterer," is an appraisal tool that synthesizes existing knowledge into a unique format which guides clinical observations, data collection, and interpretation. The design, administration, and…

The paper describes four ways of conceptualizing gifted-disadvantaged students' and proposes identification procedures believed to be appropriate to each concept. Also considered are the implications of adopting these identification procedures as adjuncts to system-level screening procedures for the identification of gifted students. (Author/CL)

A bone conduction hearing screening test using frontal bone oscillator placement was compared with pure-tone air-conduction screening and impedance audiometry with 114 preschoolers. Unoccluded frontal bone conduction testing produced screening results not significantly different from results obtained by impedance audiometry. (CL)!

Studied the effect of depression on responses to the California Psychological Inventory (CPI) in 33 male and 32 female students, using clinical ratings of depression, the Beck Inventory, and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory D-Scale. Depression was found to significantly decrease scores on most of the CPI scales. (JAC)

Compared six Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) short forms with the full-length MMPI for ability to identify code-types and indices of psychopathology in renal dialysis patients (N=53) and paranoid schizophrenics (N=58). Results suggested that the accuracy of the short forms fluctuates for different patient populations and…

Aptitude test performance of 300 sixth graders compared with measures of intelligence, creativity, and task commitment (J. Renzulli's definition of giftedness) showed that strict application of Renzulli's definition resulted in identification of a small number of students. Totally different children were identified by verbal as opposed to figural…

The Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test (MAST) was designed to serve as a reliable and quantifiable measure of alcohol dependence (M. Selzer, 1971). Since its introduction, the psychometric properties of the MAST have been studied extensively, but there are several questions that have not been addressed or only partially answered. The purpose of…

The SIT is an individual test of intelligence, for both children and adults, requiring no specialized training. (Authors)