Reviews techniques to consider when writing multiple-choice objective test items. (SL)

A variety of practical applications of item characteristic curve test theory are discussed. Among these applications are tailored testing, two stage testing, determining whether two tests measure the same latent trait, and measuring item bias towards minority or other groups. (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)

Described is the Hahnemann High School Behavior Rating Scale (HHSB), a 45-item rating scale which includes a simple rating guide for the teacher and a detachable profile sheet. (SBH)

The purpose of this research was to expand the criteria for the efficacy of the three short forms of the Standford-Binet Intelligence Scale to a consideration of individual differences in intelligence classification. (Author/RK)

The Brand Emotions Scale for Writers (BESW) is a 20-item scale designed to measure writers' emotions immediately before, during, and immediately after writing. This article describes the development of the BESW and the factor structure of the three different scale forms. (BS)

Constructed and tested Crisis Call Outcome Rating Scale, rating scale of caller behavior, as an outcome measure at telephone hotline facility. Psychology students rated caller behavior on role-played audiotapes. Items having respectable item-total correlations comprise final version of scale which detected meaningful differences among audiotapes.…

Describes the development of a Communication Openness Measure (COM) based on an empirically supported model of the communication openness construct and suggests a number of speculative conclusions about the nature of communication openness. (JC)

At the beginning of the undergraduate psychology course, students are informed that a comprehensive makeup final will be required of any student who misses any regularly scheduled exam for any reason. The more exams a student misses, the more heavily the comprehensive makeup is weighted. (RM)

Compares test-generating programs which accompany six different college-level history textbooks. Points out the basic features and usefulness of each. The test-generating programs reviewed are the Norton Testing System, Brownstone Research Group, two versions of Microtest, Floppy Disk Test Item Files, and Computest Microcomputer Testing System.…

An instrument designed to measure teacher job satisfaction was developed using randomly selected elementary, junior high school, and senior high school teachers. Factor analysis was undertaken as an exploratory technique to help discover underlying factors and as a psychometric procedure for the development and refinement of the instrument.…

Explains how spreadsheet software can be used in the design and grading of academic tests and in assigning grades. Macro programs and menu-driven software are highlighted and an example using IBM PCs and Lotus 1-2-3 software is given. (Author/LRW)

Using a log-linear modeling approach, the conditional independence of clustered items in the Australian Scholastic Aptitude Test within and between clusters was examined. Data were from 30,465 examinees in Queensland and Western Australia. In general, conditional independence was not found, although the relationships between items were usually…

The "Issues in Disability Scale" is a new instrument developed to measure both the cognitive and affective components of attitudes toward the physically disabled. The method by which the instrument was constructed is presented, along with preliminary data supporting both the reliability and validity of the scale. (Author/DB)