The ATIC is comprised of a series of subtests designed to assess competency in those basic skill areas considered to be prerequisite for further learning. These subtests are organized into levels which are criterion referenced. The test is suitable for Indian children in grades K-5. (NQ)

Discusses two conflicting concepts of correcting and grading high school graduation examinations in French: "mathematical" grading of complex exercises versus objective grading of reduced segments. Recommends higher valuation on goal-orientation as against extreme objectivity. Students' performance must be evaluated individually. Various concrete…

Rejects criticism of Kahl's position in his article on the Reading Comprehension Test (in this journal, issue no. 3, 1977), pointing out that the test is constructed according to the prescribed guidelines. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

The Feasibility Scale for Language Acquisition Routing, a technique for helping audiologists and other clinicians design language stimulation programs for young hearing impaired students, is described. (CL)

Cites tests with children in primary schools being taught in a foreign language (English speakers in Canada being taught in French, Finnish speakers in Swedish). Tests of Filipino children learning English showed that those who had become acquainted with English in kindergarten learned more easily. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Students and teachers are dissatisfied with sixth form language instruction and examinations, claiming that their purposes and goals are confused and not clearly articulated. The suggested new emphasis involves instruction in various specific and practical modes of written and oral language production, written translation, and reading and…

The problems and advantages of multiple-choice tests in German at A-level are discussed. (CHK)

To determine if cloze items are sensitive to constraints across sentences, sequential and scrambled-type tests were given to native English speakers and Japanese adults studying ESL. Results showed cloze items embedded in prose are sensitive to discourse constraints ranging beyond the immediate limits of a sentence. (CHK)

The current tendency toward uniformity of teaching methods and tests in the Hauptschulen ("terminal" junior high schools) is applauded. Using a picture story as an example, a list of criteria is given for the evaluation of student performance. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

A method of assessing language dominance using self-reports of language usage in social interaction, language preference in answering a written questionnaire, and language proficiency measured by equivalent tests of linguistic aptitude is outlined. The results of the method's application on francophone ninth and twelfth graders in northeastern…

A three-step process in designing a test to assess children's oral language proficiency in specific communicative areas is described and illustrated, and the utility of such tests for classroom teachers is discussed. (MSE)

An adaptation of the Fluency in Controlled Association subtest of the Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination was administered to language-disordered (N=123) and non-disabled (N=286) kindergarten through ninth-grade students. Lack of significant differences on this task suggests that it may not be an appropriate screening device for identifying…

Language-disordered (N=30) and linguistically-normal (N=30) first- through third-graders judged the grammatical acceptability of sentences (and attempted to correct those they judged ungrammatical). Results indicated that the judgment task was capable of effectively separating language-disordered and linguistically-normal children at specific age…

Comparison of Test of Early Language Development (TELD) scores of developmentally-delayed three- to six-year-olds (N=85) with other language and cognition measures indicated that TELD scores documented language delays, correlating strongly with other language measures, but failed to accurately classify subjects clinically classified as…