Laboratory-based measures of workplace fraud, rule breaking, and pilferage were developed and used to assess the validity associated with the use of integrity scores from the Employment Inventory (G. E. Paajanen, 1985) for 133 undergraduates. The usefulness of the developed criterion measures was supported. (SLD)

Created a teaching effectiveness rating instrument for use by students at Rand Afrikaans University. Analyzed the questionnaire's reliability and validity and found it to be a useful instrument for formative teaching assessment. (EV)

Undergraduate psychology examinations from 48 schools were analyzed to determine the proportion of items at each level of Bloom's Taxonomy, item format, and test length. Analyses indicated significant relationships between item complexity and test length even when taking format into account. Use of higher items may be related to shorter tests,…

The extent to which testing practices complied with professional guidelines regarding reliability and validity evidence was studied in research appearing in American Psychological Association journals. Documentation of reliability and validity was reported for 20% of the 2,157 instruments studied in these papers. About half supported one or the…

With the nominal model of R. D. Bock as a framework, transformation matrices can be used to constrain the parameters of test item response categories to reflect their componential design. The approach is illustrated in a study of a spelling task completed by 385 Dutch third graders. (SLD)

A school work culture productivity model is reviewed, and the development of a culture productivity instrument based on the model is reported. Second-order component analysis of responses of 416 elementary school educators showed broad areas of generalization across the primary work culture components. (SLD)

Comparison of the correlates of two spatial ability tests that used the same item type but different test design principles (cognitive design versus psychometric design) indicated differences in the factorial complexity of the two tests. For the sample of 209 undergraduates, the impact of verbal abilities was substantially reduced by applying the…

Reports on the development of the Matriculation English Test oral subtest (METOS) in China. Having undergone repeated piloting and moderation, the METOS format has attained validity on the strength of its being a message-based test of the interactive and contextualized use of English. (Author/VWL)

Reports on the design and development of the Parent Concerns Questionnaire, an instrument designed to obtain the views of mothers in general, and particularly depressed mothers, in families subject to child and family care intervention. Discusses the reliability and validity of the instrument. (JPB)

Reports results from research that developed and applied a content analysis instrument to measure the content of 12 middle school mathematics teachers' tests and quizzes. Results shed light on content and methods and on "enacted" curriculum. One finding is the large preponderance of single-path/ single-solution problems related to number…

After computerized training on visual-visual identity matching, a 5-year old with autism was given visual-visual and auditory-visual matching-to-sample tests with new stimuli. He performed poorly on matching visual stimuli until the stimulus array was changed to resemble the computer-stimulus arrangement, indicating the influence of small…

Analyzed data from a session of the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) mathematics examination to identify items displaying a bi-modal expected score distribution, try to explain the bi-modality, rescore the items to remove under-used middle categories, and determine the effect on test reliability of rescoring the data. Discusses…

Reports on the development of a 12-item Likert-type measure of collective efficacy in schools designed to assess the extent to which a faculty believes in its conjoint capacity to influence student learning positively. A total of 452 teachers in 47 schools completed a 21-item scale later refined to 12 items. Discusses internal consistency and…

Examined the effects of providing students with background information about the structure and scoring of mathematics performance assessments (PA). Results for 187 elementary school students who had PA orientation and 182 who did not show the effects of test wiseness training for average and above-average students, but not for below-average…

An instrument to test students' ability to analyze business situations was administered to 120 undergraduates. Level of study, achievement in business curriculum, and stress resilience were associated with test performance. Gender, age, family income, and high school results were not related to performance. (Contains 44 references.) (SK)