Examines the convergent and discriminant validity of six widely used measures of role-taking skill. The Borke; Rothenberg; Miller, Kessel, and Flavell; Chandler; DeVries; and Glucksberg and Krauss tasks were administered to children in preschool and grades 1, 3, and 5. (Author/JMB)

Considered are limits of accuracy in the frequent administration of standardized achievement tests for deaf students. (Author/CL)

A method to improve personality inventory validity by presenting positively keyed items from a single trait in descending order of endorsement and encouraging subjects to respond in terms of the resulting Guttman scale is presented. Experimental results show increases in reliability and validity. (Author/JKS)

The Personal Attribute Inventory was compared to the Adjective Check List as a measure of self concept on a sample of college students. The Personal Attribute Inventory showed strong correlation to two subscales of the Adjective Check List, and more stability over time. (JKS)

The Slosson Intelligence Test and the Shipley Institute of Living Scale were administered in a test-retest fashion to a sample of undergraduates. Correlations between the instruments were moderate and reliabilities for the instruments were moderate to low. (JKS)

Results show that individuals identified by the personality inventory as extravert or introvert differed significantly in the expected direction on the global self ratings. The results were also obtained for neuroticism. (Author/DEP)

The evidence is against the single-group validity hypothesis that some tests will be valid for whites but not for blacks and vice versa. The evidence suggests that the differential validity hypothesis that some tests will be more valid for one race than the other will also prove false. (Author/IRT)

It is hypothesized that adding neutral items to the IT Scale for Children will demasculinize boys' scores by allowing them reasonable alternatives to sterotypically masculine items. (Author/SB)

Evaluates specific characteristics of two forms of the Weschler Intelligence Scale for Children. (KS)

The reliability and validity of the nine scale Social and Prevocational Information Battery for educable mentally retarded individuals was evaluated with four additional samples averaging 82 junior and senior high school pupils. (BB)

This study assessed the validity of the College-Level Examination Program's (CLEP) General Examination in English Composition using the CLEP Subject Examination in English Composition. (DD)

Ten psychometric criteria (such as item analysis, concurrent validity, and interexaminer reliability) were used to compare four preschool screening tests: "Comprehensive Identification Process", "Developmental Indicators for the Assessment of Learning--Revised" (Dial--R), "Denver Developmental Screening Test", and…

Measured the ability of QUEST, an occupational search questionnaire, to match work history in a largely nonprofessional adult population and explored factors related to discrepancies between work history and QUEST results. Used 100 subjects participating in an unemployment program. Results showed QUEST was reflective of past work experience…

This study examined the effects of a bogus objective measure (bogus pipeline) on self-reports of experimentation, frequency, intentions, beliefs, and attitudes related to alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use of 191 youths aged 10 to 16. Results are discussed. (Author/MT)