A program was conducted to develop a reliable, uniform recording system to describe activities of consultation, mental health education and community organization for program description and assessment which can be used in management and planning. 25 of 47 functioning programs, including regional branches of three county programs, were studied.…

An empirical sampling study investigated six procedures for testing differences between means in the presence of unequal n's and variances. Support was obtained for previous research which found t robust to heterogeneous variances only when n's are equal and of moderate size. The procedure which emerged as providing the best control over Type I…

Trait adjectives have both evaluative and denotative meanings. Evaluation of a trait varies with the context of other traits attributed to the person. The meaning-change interpretation suggests that denotative change in trait meaning underlies evaluative change. The evaluative-halo interpretation attributes context effects of single trait ratings…

The Criterion-Referenced Test is designed to be used in conjunction with the SEL/Project Language, Level II, Kindergarten program. The test consists of 28 items to which the child responds verbally or nonverbally. The examiner records and tallies correct responses to obtain the child's total score. To administer this test, the examiner must have…

The aim of this handbook is to provide in a brief form comparable methods and guidelines for psychological measurements of all races in different parts of the world living under different environmental stresses. Ancillary individual and group information, psychophysiological, psychomotor, perceptual and high level mental tests are analyzed within…

This symposium discussed the problems school systems have with their testing programs, and presented as a model for discussion the approach used by the Madison (Wisconsin) Public Schools to redesign their system-wide testing program. The symposium looks at the traditional school district testing program and finds it dysfunctional and inadequate.…

The author discusses the use of hierarchical tests with learning disabled (LD) children and presents four examples to explain basic characteristics of this type of test. It is explained that a hierarchical measurement provides two associated scores - a composite score and an error of prediction score. The examples are used to portray the use of a…

Discusses the role of test marketing in new product development, based on interviews with marketing executives. Attempts to clarify when a test market should be done, what its aims should be, and how it should be used. (JG)

This report on the First Annual National Conference on Student Competencies focues on the legal challenges to competency testing. (IRT)

A general method of devising stepwise multiple testing procedures with fixed experimentwise error is applied to the problem of non-parametric randomized block design with ordered alternatives. In addition, the method is applied to other models with ordered alternatives. (Author)

Increased activity during the teaching of spelling words resulted in hyperactive children having greater difficulty than the normal children in distinguishing relevant tasks from the extraneous stimulation. (Ed.)

An alternate procedure is presented for testing the trial-by-subject interaction in the Shine Combined analysis of variance test. This new procedure is designed to get around the independence and distributional problems of the orginal F test. (Author)

DSYSTM is an interactive computer program designed to perform a linear-graph analysis of contingency table data. The program is especially suitable for the analysis of change models. (Author/JKS)