This paper presents guidelines for valid and effective test preparation and presentation. Working on the assumption that teacher secrecy about tests and the subsequent student test-fear are pointless and harmful, this paper outlines some tools for test preparation, such as pretests, teacher file cards as to items covered in class and clearly…

Before a business adopts tests in personnel selection, it should be decided that the increased cost and bother are likely to be offset by the savings that come from this additional selection procedure. Fairly accurate estimates of the cost of testing can be made, but in educational testing it is harder than in businesses to measure the results in…

This project examines the suitability of the General Examinations of the College Level Examination Program (CLEP) as an alternative battery to the Aptitude Test of the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) for the admission of vocational education teachers to master's level study of vocational education. The CLEP battery and the College Entrance…

Five three-variable combinations were obtained from a variety of standardized test scores of 331 male children. These five groups were treated as unrestricted populations of the case III variety. Extreme univariate selection was produced in each group allowing for tests of differences between the correlation values of the two incidental variables…

Concommitant with changes in education, health care roles, and evaluation in recent years, a new six year combined B.S. and M.D. program was inititated at the University of Missouri at Kansas City. Evaluation was integrated into the academic plan in order to assess student progress toward the overall goal of becoming a safe physician, as well as…

Evaluation is a vexed issue in North America at the moment. This paper discusses some of the factors that bear on evaluation procedures and practices in the College of Education of the University of Saskatchewan. It highlighted problems confronting instructors and offered four suggestions for their amelioration. (Editor/RK)

In the first part of this paper, the author discusses trends and problems facing the counseling profession. The second part deals with the technical use of tests. (Author/HMV)

The author describes the testing efforts of Student Services in his school in the light of financial cutbacks, public demand for accountability, student demand for relevance and student apathy toward the counseling center. (Author/HMV)

Presented in this article is a Rights Awareness Test (RAT) dealing with race issues and their coverage by the law. This test can be used in the classroom as a vehicle for discussion on contemporary human rights issues. (Author/EB)

Describes the individualized testing system and the impact of this practice on grade inflation of a biology course for nonmajors at Oral Roberts University, Tuba, Oklahoma. A course description, and discussion of results of 1,512 students who took the course over an eight-semester period are presented. (HM)

Examines whether the degree of facilitating and debilitating test anxiety is different for students who volunteer for test anxiety desensitization workshops than it is for the general college population, whether test anxiety in urban community college students is correlated, and whether either or both of the AAT scales are predictive of student…

Two studies compared results for students from "modern" and "traditional" mathematical backgrounds on industrial selection tests employed by many industries for recruitment purposes. There were no significant differences in overall performance, nor did inclination toward or away from a technical career in industry seem to…

An art teacher uses some inexpensive instructional materials to teach his students awareness of the "built environment" and what its influence is on the natural environment. At the same time, he explores spatial relationships with his elementary class. (RK)

There are numerous examples of misinformation which are often taken for granted by individuals involved in the education of Indian children. Lists the author's perception of eight of the most prevalent general myths. (Author/RK)

The educational journal "Forum" today publishes a special number on "non-streaming". Here is a reprint from "Forum" on mathematics and mixed-ability grouping by a man who has been a Leicestershire head teacher/principal for the last twenty years. (Editor/RK)