In general, faults did make the items easier, with the largest effects occurring for cue and grammar contaminations. (Authors)

A study of the sanctions which control moral conduct was carried out on a sample of 40 primary and secondary schoolchildren. A test of ten moral dilemmas was constructed and used. The most interesting finding was the importance of self-concept as a regulating factor in moral judgment. (Editor)

Describes students' responses to three attitude measuring instruments which were further analyzed with cognitive achievement and census figures as variables. Concludes the presence of a generally positive disposition and its dependence on knowledge possession and parents' education. (CC)

Butch and Slim was written as a response to a need for a rather specialised group of items in the Reasoning sub-scale of the British Intelligence Scale. (Author)

Authors examined the CFR (cognition of fugural relations) items in 166 group intelligence tests listed in the Sixth Mental Measurements Yearbook as well as 35 other tests in Educational Testing Service's test collection. (Authors/MB)

The problem in the present study was to produce a description of the logico-semantic relations which define the semantic spaces of children and to indicate how these spaces change over time. (Authors)

Author, vice-president and director of research at the Children's Television Workshop, describes the research conducted for Sesame Street. (MB)

An item reversal is like the original item except that the apparent or inferred direction of meaning is changed from positive to negative or from negative to positive. The experimental subjects did not respond to the reversed items and the original items in a similar manner. (Author/DG)

Based on the author's article in the same issue of Fremdsprachliche Unterricht; see FL 502 498. (RS)

Modifications of administration and item arrangement of a conventional test can force a match between item difficulty levels and the ability level of the examinee. Although different examinees take different sets of items, the scoring method provides comparable scores for all. Furthermore, the test is self-scoring. These advantages are obtained…