Reviewed are the technical problems in the work of Grill and Bartel who attempted to demonstrate that a bias exists in the Grammatical Closure subtest of the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities against speakers of nonstandard English. (SBH)

A pair of related experiments examined the psychometric properties on the Threat Index (TI), a theoretically based scale for the assessment of threat of death. The high reliability of the TI suggested its functioning as an index of stable conceptual orientation toward death. (Author)

The criticisms of Rabinowitz, Mandler, and Patterson offered by Broadbent and Broadbent (AA 527 085) are discussed. A clarification of some of the results supports the original view that item recognition often involves retrieval processes similar to those of free recall. Data are presented to refute Broadbents' suggestion that a recognition test…

The effects of providing total and partial immediate feedback to pupils in multiple choice testing was investigated with fifth and sixth grade pupils. The split-half reliability was higher with total feedback than with no feedback. Concurrent validity with a completion test showed all three settings to be nearly identical. (Author/JKS)

The authors of this article have devised an instrument called the "Conoley Southwest Indigenous Quotient Test: A Technique to Help Teachers Understand Why Many Mexican American Children Perform Poorly on Culturally Biased Intelligence Tests". (AM)

The objective assessment of thought disorder in schizophrenia is problematic in clinical psychology. Recently, an individually administered instrument (WIST) was introduced as a brief, objective, and quantitative measure of schizophrenic thought processes. Possible shortcomings of the WIST are noted; experimental findings that concern extension to…

In evaluating the Northwestern Syntax Screening Test (a test for assessing expressive and receptive grammar in preschool and primary age children), the author points out problems with the test norms, reliability, and validity. (SBH)

The author responds to W. Arndt's criticisms of the Northwestern Syntax Screening Test, a test for assessing receptive and expressive grammar in young children. (SBH)

It was hypothesized that slight modifications in word association test (WAT) instructions would have no discernible effect on the responses of college students, but would produce significantly different response hierarchies generated by young children. (Author/MS)

The efficiency of several visual and auditory predictors of the Metropolitan Readiness Test was examined utilizing 106 grade 1 subjects considered by their teachers to show learning difficulties. (Author/JC)

Discrepancies between the mental age (MA) scores and the mean performance of chronological age (CA) groups in the latest revision of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale are noted. A table is presented for converting published Stanford-Binet MA scores into MA scores that are congruent with the above definition. (Author)

Gold proposes that separate norms for interpreting the DAT scores of boys and girls are undesirable for three major reasons. One such argument states that separate-sex norms for the DAT appear to be more consistent with current laws than do combined-sex norms. (Author)

This multimethod-multitrait study compared facets of self-concept defined by subscale labels in the Sears Self-Concept Inventory, the Gordon How I See Myself Scale, and the Piers-Harris Children's Self-Concept Scale. A total of 103 subjects in grades 3 through 6 participated. (JMB)