A type of examination in which additional questions are provided was used for Grade 12 Algebra and College 1 Introductory Calculus. An hypothesis was formulated that this procedure should reveal additional knowledge which whould be reflected in superior average scores for the class group. (Editor)

Revised version of a paper presented at the 1971 Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Linguistics. (DD)

Purpose of this study was to develop an instrument, the Positive Regard Scale, to measure the degree of positive regard for women as reflected by university men, and to relate Positive Regard Scale scores to selected personal and social factors. (Authors)

Purposes of this study were to develop an instrument to measure the attitudes of teachers toward the use of instructional television and to administer this instrument to a group of elementary teachers that use the medium on a regular basis. (Author)

As a step towards providing detailed, diagnostic data for teaching reading, a diagnostic test for two major letter-sound patterns was developed and tested on primary school children. (Authors)

The study was conducted to analyze the suitability of cognitive abilities described in Bloom's Taxonomy to PSSC based examinations in Australia. Point biserial correlations were used to analyze results. No evidence was found for relevancy between ability, as represented in the Taxonomy, and questions constructed in relation to content validity.…

Paper analyzes additive variance in such a fashion that it supports both a theory of types and a cognitive-frustration theory of behavior in the development of tests designed to assess mental disturbance'' versus normality'' amongst college students. (Author)

Gives instructions on how to improve student test taking skills, suggesting that students may fare poorly on standardized reading comprehension tests because of inadequate test taking ability. (Author/RB)

Research examined the conception of achievement motivation as a unitary construct. (Author)

For the principles studied here, poor item-writing practices serve to obscure (or attentuate) differences between good and poor students. (Authors)

A taxonomy of: (1) knowledges, (2) attitudes, (3) activities, and (4) status characteristics and research efforts to develop and validate objective measures of vocational maturity variables are suggested. (MU)