Critique of the oral portion of the Certification Examination in English, with emphasis on its degree of correspondence to the learning goals it supposedly measures. (RS)

Purpose of this study is to determine the relative value of three item validation methods which may be employed in the selection of items for inclusion in a test. (Author/CB)

After giving examples of incorrect questioning techniques and illogical thinking, Bhatt calls for more rigorous training in logical analysis for those involved in educational testing and measurement. (SP)

Purpose of this study was to explore the measurement of social attitudes by using attitude referents as stimuli; to assess the psychometric properties of an attitude scale constructed with referents; and to test aspects of a structural theory of attitudes. (Author/MB)

Discusses study testing the validity and reliability of elementary teachers' evaluation of students' written essays; Form A of test appended; based in part on author's doctoral dissertation, University of Colorado, 1965. (RD)

Construction of a test instrument incorporating both the aesthetic and the functional areas of concern in the fields of art and design. (MB)

Tests which the foreign language competence of the learner are the chief focus of the discussion, and the following aspects of such tests are discussed: purpose level, type, selection, form, gradation, order, number of items, administration of test, correction, and validation. (FB)

This paper proposes a general model for free-response data collected for measuring a specified unidimensional psychological process; systematizes situations which vary with respect to the scoring level of items; and finds out general conditions for the operating characteristic of an item response category to provide a unique maximum likelihood…

The case for using one's schooling successfully in nonschool life may have to be made not on the endurance of memory, but rather on selective forgetting. (Author)