Briefly describes research stimulated by the McREL-BSCS document Inquiry Objectives in the Teaching of Biology." Mentions instruments and procedures for investigating patterns of inquiry, the interactions in an inquiring classroom, the assessment of affective objectives, and the indentification of teaching practices related to student…

Discusses the development of the New Cooperative Industrial Arts Tests which are designed for use at the junior high school level. (SB)

Five types of multiple-choice items that can be used to assess higher-order educational objectives are examined. The item types do not exhaust the possibilities, but they are standard forms found helpful in writing items to measure more than recognitive memory. (Author/CM)

Potential problems such as scoring errors, interrater reliability, and length of administration in using the Adaptive Behavior Scale to assess functional behavior of severely disabled persons are reviewed, and solutions to the problems are offered. (Author/MC)

Reports the development and testing of a practical instrument, the Self-Description Questionnaire, that can be used by teachers to identify the psychosocial factors contributing to learning problems experienced by low literate adults. Provides examples of how teachers can use the framework and data obtained from the instrument. Includes the…

Multivariate generalizability techniques are used to bridge the gap between psychometric constraints and the tables of specifications needed in test development. Techniques are illustrated with results from the American College Testing Assessment Program. (Author/PN)

An Index of Social Competence, covering 15 ability areas was developed and administered to 376 mentally handicapped adults. The index should prove particularly useful in surveys of service requirements especially in the social and residential areas. (Author/SB)

The purpose of this study was to determine whether a Mexican version of the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test could be improved by directly translating both forms of the American test, then using decision procedures to select the better item of each pair. The reliability of the simple translations suffered. (Author/BW)

An instrument for assessing student evaluation skills examined their relationship to psychomotor skills in freshman students. Results do not show technical skills differentiating either self-assessment skills or students' ability to recognize errors. The instrument is also useful for highlighting to faculty those psychomotor skills needing to be…

In three studies, college students evaluated their instructor on student-rating-of-instruction items. Based upon item content and a component analysis of the item intercorrelations, four scales were constructed. They were judged to possess an acceptable degree of internal consistency and construct validity to be useful in further research.…