The internal consistency of the Goodenough-Harris Draw-A-Person Test was examined using 150 children, aged 5-8. The 72-item full scales showed good internal consistency at all ages, with no sex differences. Administration of a 42-item short form resulted in sex effects and differential internal consistency. (Author/GDC)

Four dozen departments at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, are using faculty-developed exit examinations for majors as one component of a comprehensive program evaluation process. The experience of 11 program faculties in developing and using such examinations are summarized. (Author/MLW)

Discusses design, development, and evaluation of scales used in counseling psychology research. Describes methods of scale construction including the Thurstone, Q-sort, rank-order methods, Likert, semantic differential, Guttman, Rasch, and external criterion methods. Presents ways of evaluating newly developed scales. Discusses measurement versus…

Reviews literature on exchange-orientation in relationship to marital adjustment and cohabitation and friendship compatibility. Presents revised exchange-orientation scale consisting of items which were judged relevant to exchange and which passed internal consistency tests and differentiated between high and low scorers. Includes various versions…

Offers an introduction to Great Britain's new sixth form economics examination. Compares various economics syllabuses and explains the background of the course requirements. Describes the examination's structure and reflects upon the degree of innovation in British economics education. (Author/DH)

Offers practical tips on how teachers can determine whether classroom tests are actually measuring what they are designed to measure. Discusses criterion-related validity, construct validity, and content validity. Demonstrates how to determine the degree of content validity a particular test may have for a particular course or unit. (Author/DH)

Concerns arise about two of the most widely used measurements in writing research because of faulty logic in the construction of the Writing Apprehension Test and the possibility of incomplete analytic procedures using T-unit analyses. Two experiments were conducted to address these concerns. Results are discussed. (Author/MT)

Reports on relative importance to rehabilitation counselors of professional competencies, as measured by the Rehabilitation Skills Inventory (RSI). Draws implications for counselors, supervisors, educators, agencies, and clients. Lists 114 items on RSI and ranks items within 10 clusters according to importance scores. (Author)

Describes development of the Hospice Environmental Survey (HES) to measure user's perception of the homelike atmosphere provided by a hospital inpatient unit called Hospice House. Presents the HES instrument, methodology, and pilot study data. (Author/NB)

An instrument was developed and standardized to assess the extent to which mentally retarded people demonstrate knowledge of citizenship rights and responsibilities. Test development involved generating 83 test items, pilot testing with 236 members of self-advocacy groups for the developmentally disabled, and standardization with 391…

Developed in the Netherlands, the General Handicapped Scale is a 36-item instrument which measures four aspects of level of acceptance: (1) acceptance of the handicapping condition itself; (2) degree of frustration concerning dependence on others; (3) perception of how the public views handicapped persons; (4) psychic substratum (emotional…

This study explored the relationship between college student achievement and two other dimensions: cognitive complexity and the concreteness or abstractness of selected concepts. Although the level of abstractness alone did not influence achievement, the cognitive complexity of the item and the interaction of the two main effects was significant.…

Delineates a systematic procedure for operationalizing the "behavioral consistency" notion. The steps used in developing selection tests from a content-oriented strategy are illustrated, and the transformation of specific job behaviors into tests related to job content is demonstrated. Test reliability and content validity are presented.…

Describes efforts of the University of Michigan's English Composition Board to examine and make more uniform the process of evaluating entering student essays for purposes of placement. Examines some of the factors evaluators bring to bear when assessing student papers. (HTH)

Reports on the development of the Adolescent Activities Checklist (AAC) which is comprised of 100 items that assess pleasant and unpleasant activities. The AAC subscales demonstrated high internal consistency and homogeneity. Results suggest the AAC is a reliable index of the frequency of pleasant and unpleasant activities reported by adolescents.…