LANGUAGE ENCODING AND DECODING PROCESSES WERE EXAMINED BY DETERMINING THE ABILITY OF SUBJECTS TO PREDICT OMISSIONS FROM A NATURAL LANGUAGE TEXT WHICH THEY HAD PREVIOUSLY PRODUCED THEMSELVES, AND BY COMPARING THIS PERFORMANCE WITH THAT OF OTHER SUBJECTS TO PREDICT OMISSIONS FROM THESE SAME TEXTS WHICH THE SECOND GROUP READ AT THE TIME OF…

Mastery of sixteen "life skills" tasks will be a Seattle Public Schools graduation requirement beginning in 1981. Five forms of the Minimum Competencies Performance Test, which will be used to measure mastery of those tasks, are presently being developed and field tested. This report presents the results of the analysis of the first…

Various practices of grading, and some of their advantages and disadvantages are discussed. The first chapter presents the purposes and meaning of letter grades, and offers some guidelines: letter grades should reflect academic achievement, rather than affective behavior or personality; they should be closely related to course objectives and…

A major objective of the measurement profession continues to be the assurance of high quality tests and proper test use. The National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) constitutes a group of testing practitioners, scholars, and specialists with well-informed opinions on matters of educational measurement and testing. NCME regards it as…

Using the constructs of Rogers, Ellis, and Barrett-Lennard, a twenty-five item Likert-type instrument, the Non-Directive Supervisory Behavior Scale, was developed to measure directive vs. non-directive supervisory behavior. One hundred ninety-five in-service teachers, randomly selected from two school districts, completed the twenty-five item…

The Concepts about Print (Sand) and Record of Oral Language (ROL) tests were administered three times to 29 male and 27 female kindergarten children as part of a study to determine the reliability and concurrent validity of the tests. The Sand and Metropolitan Readiness Test (MRT) were administered to the returning participants (27 males and 24…

A computer program named Program STANDARD is presented and demonstrated. This program calculates the statistical significance of the overall agreement of the categorical assignments. The program is based on Light's statistic, G, for describing the conjoint agreement of many observers with correct or standard set of classifications on nominal…

BESIDES QUESTIONS ABOUT THE VALIDITY OF TESTS AS PREDICTORS, AN IMPORTANT ISSUE IS THEIR SOCIAL EFFECTS IN FOUR AREAS--(1) THE INFLUENCE OF TEST SCORES ON THE OPPORTUNITIES OPEN TO INDIVIDUALS, (2) THE INFLUENCE OF TEST SCORES ON THE KINDS OF ADVICE GIVEN IN SCHOOLS AND COUNSELING AGENCIES, (3) THE EFFECTS OF SUCH "OBJECTIVE" INFORMATION ON AN…

This study was designed to factor analyze the correlation matrices of a number of studies utilizing the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities (ITPA). All of the correlation matrices were analyzed on the same program using the same criteria. By this approach, it was possible to examine trends between studies. More factors tended to appear as…

This report evaluating the Kansas Reflection-Impulsivity Scale for Preschoolers (KRISP), developed as an easier task version of the Matching Familiar Figures Test for school-age children, presents an analysis of data on 1,408 children of widely varying backgrounds. Eighteen samples of children, ranging in age from 2 years and 5 months to 6 years…

Although grades have been criticized for lack of reliability, end-of course grades and grade-point averages are reliable enough for most uses. The charge of unreliability applies only to grades on themes, tests, or other individual pieces of student work. On the other side of the controversy, grades have been said to be essential to the learning…

This paper describes the proposed Assessment Center at Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry, New York. The center is intended to provide statistical and technical support for the Mercy College elementary education, special education, and speech and hearing departments in the areas of student assessment, student guidance, and program evaluation. Evaluation…

This study measures the stability of performance exhibited where different computer programing classes study the same material. By focusing standard measurement techniques on the item difficulty (the proportion of students answering an item correctly), it was determined that up to two-thirds of the reliable variance of a classroom test is held in…

Originally designed to provide teachers with feedback and also used as a quantitative tool for specifying teacher behavior consistent with a psychological model of teaching described by Tuckman (1974), the Tuckman Teacher Feedback Form (TTFF) is a 28-item semantic differential which generates four scores in the areas of creativity, dynamism…

The construction of an objective, self-report, objectively-scored measure of achievement motivation is reported. Empirically keyed items were developed, reflecting empirical results found in a review of achievement motivation literature. An initial item pool consisting of 153 self-report items was administered using a matrix sampling approach to…