A scale was developed and tested to measure metaphoric complexity in order to aid teachers in the selection and sequencing of young adult (YA) novels in the English curriculum. The development and testing of the scale involved two stages: (1) the development of a questionnaire to determine if differences in the metaphoric complexity of examples…

The modification of Rutter's Children's Behavior Questionnaire and its standardization was the focus of a study of 496 normal and 102 disturbed preschool children. Resultant data indicated its possible value in clinical or research settings for the first step in early detection of emotional problems. (Author/SDH)

More research is needed to distinguish between actual and artificial sex differences, and greater attention should be paid to individual differences, since at this point sex appears to account for very little variability in human performance. (JC)

Criterion-referenced assessment arguably results in greater reliability, validity and transparency than norm-referenced assessment. This article examines this assertion with reference to an example from a second year undergraduate law unit at the Queensland University of Technology, LWB236 Real Property A. When designing criterion-referenced…

A group of children, in their last term of attendance at nursery schools, were tested on their comprehension of words used in the first books of well-known reading schemes. (Author)

An overview of the articles and definition of terms for the journal topic of domain reference testing. (HB)

The internal consistency of the test for Auditory Comprehension of Language (TACL), as it is used in the diagnostic assessment of the language comprehension of black, low socioeconomic preschool children, was investigated in this study. 30 three year old and 30 four year old black Headstart children from Pulaski County, Arkansas were given the…

Most previous studies of the dependability of student ratings of instruction have used the class as the unit of analysis, thus confounding the effects of the course, the teacher, and the interaction between the two. This paper presents two studies in which generalizability theory is applied to data collected within designs allowing for independent…

Exploratory research with large numbers of variables and even larger numbers of relationships is likely to result in frequent Type II errors; that is falsely accepting an incorrect null hypotheses. There are three ways of reducing Type II errors: (1) choosing a lower significance level, which then increases the probability of Type I error; (2)…

This study was conducted to determine whether the administration of translation of an English language, teacher attitude test to teachers of other cultures would measure the same things as does its English original. The Minnesota Teacher Attitude Inventory (MTAI) was given to 509 French Canadian elementary school teachers, and the factor structure…

Investigated the efficacy of various WAIS short forms among outpatients. Results favor Pauker's (1963) short form but also show a decrease in correspondence between short-form and Full Scale scores when the short forms are administered separately. (Author/EJT)

The inter-rater and test-retest reliabilities of the (DESB) Rating Scale were found to be satisfactory when averaged over two raters. Two separate factor analyses of the eleven subscales revealed three broadband factors: Classroom Management Problem, Self-Reliant Learner, and Seeks Teacher Approval. (Author)

The author of "The Tyranny of Testing" discusses his objections to standardized testing. (IRT)