Examines the order of emergence of the concepts "in,""on," and "under" in a nonverbal cognitive task and in linguistic comprehension and production tasks. Subjects were 75 Israeli children between 14 and 30 months of age. In general, cognitive tasks were solved first, language comprehension tasks second, and language…

Performed computations for each of nine age groups to determine the frequency in the standardization sample of specific Verbal-Performance discrepancies on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised (WAIS-R). Discusses the importance and possible applications of such frequency data. (WAS)

This study examined the hypothesis that the Wechsler Verbal/Performance Intelligence quotient discrepancy would be larger or more frequent for persons classified as exhibiting a psychopathic delinquent adjustment than for persons classified as either neurotic or subculturally delinquent. (Author/PN)

States the requirements for graduation from the augmented 10-year Hauptschule (a "terminal" school) in Lower Saxony. Current examination practice is described and suggestions for improvement given. (IFS/WGA)

The article presents a trend analysis of test scores (1965-1976) among superior high school students on the Wisconsin Inventory for Talented Students-Verbal. Performance on the verbal test among superior ninth grade (N=458) and eleventh grade (N=423) students has declined over the past 12 years. (Author)

Review of trends in scores on the Scholastic Assessment Tests (SATs) suggests that increasing differences between mean scores on the verbal and mathematical sections may be at least partially due to statistical problems in the 1950s, changes in school curricula, and changes in the composition of the student test-taking population. (DB)

Analysis of literature on oral assessment in college instruction identified six dimensions: primary content type; interaction between examiner and learner; authenticity of assessment task; structure of assessment task; examiner; and orality (extent to which knowledge is tested orally). These help in understanding the nature of oral assessment and…

This study examined to what extent, if any, estimates of reliability for a multiple choice test are affected by the presence of large item sets where each set shares common reading material. The purpose of this research was to assess the effect of local item dependence on estimates of reliability for verbal portions of seven forms of the old and…

In June 1983, 456 presidents from among 5,000 of the largest companies in the United States took a vocabulary test designed by the Johnson O'Connor Research Foundation, with the purpose of reexaming the contention that a large and exact vocabulary is an attribute characterizing executives. This Executive Vocabulary Test consisted of 50…

Spoonerisms can be elicited by having the subject articulate a target preceded by bias items. Any systematic difference in rate of errors between similar targets must result from processes after recoding of target into its slip. Editing processes make lexical outcomes more frequent than nonsense outcomes. (CHK)

Analyzing the studies of the vocabulary of children, it was found that one aspect of vocabulary has not been studied in Great Britain--the availability of words. The main aim of the investigation described here was to find out the availability of the basic words from 11 centers of interest. As the length of time allotted to each center of interest…

This study attempted to test hypotheses relating to the differential performance of two groups of elementary school children on tests of creative thinking. The two groups tested were from Freedom Schools in Prince Edward County, Va., where public schools had been closed for 5 years, and from schools of Jackson, Mich. The Virginia group consisted…

Item options of shortened forms of the Graduate Record Examination Verbal and Quantitative tests were empirically weighted by two variants of a method originally attributed to Guttman. The first method assigned to each option of an item the mean standard score on the remaining items of all subjects choosing that option. The second procedure…

Suggests a monolingual, strictly oral "multiple choice" testing system, with suggestions regarding method, correcting and grading. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

Systematically investigates the effects of test context on verbal analogy item difficulty, in terms of both simple percentage correct and easiness estimates from a parameter-invariant model (Rasch, 1960). (RC)