When running out of time on a multiple-choice test such as the Law School Admission Test (LSAT), some test takers are likely to respond rapidly to the remaining unanswered items in an attempt to get some items right by chance. Because these responses will tend to be incorrect, the presence of rapid-guessing behavior could cause these items to…

Uses standardized and nonstandardized interview situations to examine several areas for two speech rate measures. Results show that the interviewer's speech rate influences that of the subject. Tables, graphs, and bibliography. (RW)

Suggests (1) a different kind of reading test construction, (2) the elimination of the vocabulary section of reading tests, and (3) a dual-scoring system in which one score is given for reading literature and another for reading textbook material. (MB)

Test measurement, reliability, and validity are discussed in relation to methods of physical fitness testing. A successful testing method which involved students testing their peers is described, showing the administration of various test items and the use of test practice procedures. (JN)

The effects of increasing the test time to reduce the speediness of verbal and quantitative experimental sections of the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) Aptitude Test were investigated. Results show that extension of testing time so as to reduce intergroup differences is not indicated. (Author/GK)

Third grade students were identified as either fast/accurate or slow/accurate in response style on the Matching Familiar Figures Tests and Thurstone's Spatial Relations Test. The fast and slow students performed similarly on untimed tasks, as predicted. Contrary to expectations, they also scored similarly on timed tests. (Author/RD)

Presents a flexible plan for scoring straight-copy timed typewriting in any typing class, secondary or postsecondary, which is particularly useful for classes where the students have varied backgrounds in typing. (MF)

Disabled and nondisabled fifth graders completed a standardized achievement test under timed and untimed conditions to examine the effect of speededness on test performance. Results indicated no difference in test speededness for the two groups nor showed that the groups were differentially affected when the amount of speededness was reduced. (SM)

Nineteen gifted students and 11 average students, age 11, completed Einstellung Test problems and were queried about their metacognitive knowledge. A three-way interaction among giftedness, speed, and flexibility was found, with metacognitive knowledge as the criterion. Regardless of speed, inflexible children had less metacognitive knowledge than…

Time limits on some computer-adaptive tests (CATs) are such that many examinees have difficulty finishing, and some examinees may be administered tests with more time-consuming items than others. Results from over 100,000 examinees suggested that about half of the examinees must guess on the final six questions of the analytical section of the…

Response accuracy and response speed provide separate measures of performance. Psychometricians have tended to focus on accuracy with the goal of characterizing examinees on the basis of their ability to respond correctly to items from a given content domain. With the advent of computerized testing, response times can now be recorded unobtrusively…

The effect of time limits on the completion rate of 8,290 students taking the reading comprehension section of the Academic Assessment and Placement Program (AAPP) was studied. The AAPP is a Tennessee configuration of items drawn from the College Board's multiple assessment programs and services item pool. It is a battery of tests used for…

The role of a hypothetical metalinguistic semantic component is assessed and contrasted with the role of a semantic component derived from the very words on the printed page, and this in turn is contrasted with the influence of the graphemic, pattern analyzing component of sentence memory. (Author/DEP)

An exploratory study was designed to determine the amount and accuracy of symbol output that may occur in a fixed time when elementary school children are asked to copy from a page they have neither seen before nor will be given a chance to study. For two minutes, a total of 194 fourth, sixth, and eighth grade students copied an unfamiliar prose…