The purpose of this document was to present the development and validation of an instrument to be utilized by local inservice education coordinators in the evaluation of career education inservice training programs. It is proposed that the instrument, the Career Education Concept Inventory (CECI), can be used to provide a measure of understandings…

This study investigated two approaches for obtaining job ratings in order to determine which procedure provided the most stable ratings, given a constant number of raters. Specifically, it compared reliability estimates determined by averaging across individually obtained job ratings and reliability estimates based on consensus ratings from…

Described is the Quick Neurological Screening Test (QNST), a measure of "soft" neurological signs frequently associated with learning disabilities, and discussed are research findings on the QNST. The QNST is said to provide classroom teachers with a method for identifying children whose learning disabilities are caused by neurological…

The objective of the study was the development and analysis of an instrument which assesses student attitudes toward school, work, self, and others. This objective ll5 item instrument was refined into an 80 item Student Attitude Survey which has documented qualities related to administration, processing, reliability, and validity. The revised…

This research tests for positional response set (the tendency when answering survey questions to choose answers in a particular position among the options presented) among students in grades 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12. (Author/RM)

Take a scientific approach to the use of psychological testing in business and industry, and analyze jobs carefully as an important part of setting up a testing program. The article offers a step-by-step procedure for testing employees, analyzing results, and deciding whether the test is useful or not. (Author/AJ)

Hoyt's analysis of variance procedure for estimating reliability assumes that the residual mean square estimates error variability. If, however, an individual's true score varies across items, it is argued that residual mean square estimates two components--error and interaction--and hence Winer's modification of Hoyt's formula, understimates the…

The use and validity of the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test and the Slooson Intelligence Test as screening devices when compared to the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children was studied in 36 mentally retarded adolescents. (Author)

The Heath and Carter approach to determining somatotypes is less accurate than is regression analysis, mainly because of the lack of association between skeletal widths and lean body mass as measured by body density and whole-body fat percentage, holding constant muscle circumference. (Author)

Shostrom (1966) developed the Personal Orientation Inventory (POI) to measure various aspects of self-actualization. A number of validity studies have been reported but only two reliability studies have appeared in the literature. This research reports a three-year study of personality correlates of student drug use at Lehigh University in which…

Staff members of the Psychology department at the University of Oregon rated each other's height on five rating scales representative of those found in social psychology. Average ratings proved to be very good estimates of height. (Author/JKS)

ANALYSIS, a FORTRAN computer program developed as an aid to investigation of and instruction in the psychometric properties of test items, is described. The program utilizes both correlational and analysis of variance approaches to classical item analysis. (Author/JKS)

Option weighting is an alternative to increasing test length as a means of improving the reliability of a test. The effects on test reliability of option weighting procedures were compared in two empirical studies using four independent sets of items. Biserial weights were found to be superior. (Author/CTM)

The reliabilities of two sociometric tests were compared when administered to three and four-year olds. The full-rank order instrument, the Paired-Comparisons Sociometric Test (PCST), was found to have greater test-retest reliability than the partial-rank order test, the Picture Sociometric Interview (PSI). (GDC)

A general coefficient for tests, delta, is derived from a decision theoretic point of view. The situations are considered in which a true score is estimated by a function of the observed score, observed scores are split into more than two categories, and observed scores are split into only two categories. (Author/CTM)