The author reviews and expands the work of J. Boyd (EC 062 111) on the use of the Slosson Intelligence Test scored according to Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children categories for children who may need special education. (CL)

The goodness-of-fit of correlational pattern hypotheses has traditionally been assessed either with a likelihood ratio statistic or with a quadratic form statistic. Several alternative statistics, based on the use of the Fisher r-to-z transform, are proposed and assessed in a Monte Carlo experiment. (Author/JKS)

Florida has adopted and implemented a variety of ways to test handicapped students without harming them, including exemptions, special standards, and modification of test techniques. (Author/CL)

Twenty-one male and 21 female adolescents were tested individually for conservation of mass, weight, and volume. (CM)

A review of recent volumes of the "Research Quarterly" reveals that few of the studies employing multiple dependent measures have attended to the appropriate analysis. (JD)

Tests are described that will objectively measure playing ability and discriminate between successful and unsuccessful basketball players. (JD)

Investigating use of maximum v averaged scores in physical and motor multiple-trial tests as indicators of performance, this article concludes use of mean scores is still most appropriate in terms of scientific estimations of true performance given multiple fallible empirical measures. (JC)

This paper surveys available techniques and introduces an explicit statement of a new statistic to test for equality of correlated proportions in a polychotomous response design. A set of guidelines for the potential user of the techniques is provided. (Author/CTM)

The one-year stabilities of several well-standardized intellectual, educational, and personality tests were evaluated for 15 children of Mexican American migrant workers. Most of the stability coefficients observed for these tests were statistically significant and similar to those reported for their normative samples. However, the stability…

The timing in providing feedback after testing is less important than the fact that feedback needs to be provided at some point. (JD)

Methodological errors are cited in a study of predictive utility for screening tests designed to identify high risk preschool children. (CL)

The present study suggests that post-KR delay interval time or activity in the interval has little to do with learning on a self-paced positioning task, not ruling out that on ballistic tasks or more complex nonballistic tasks that a learner could make use of additional time or strategy. (MB)

Challenge studies can be used to see whether there is a causal relationship between an agent of interest and a response. An approach based on union-intersection testing is presented that allows researchers to examine observations on a single subject and test the hypothesis of interest. An application using psychological data is presented. (SLD)

Introduced the hypothesis-assessment model, claiming that the strength of inductive argument is determined by the same factors that affect hypothesis plausibility in the everyday social milieu. Describes experiments conducted to assess argument strength. Discusses strengths and limitations of the proposed hypothesis-assessment model. (MOK)

Discusses innovations in testing methods in college-level science. Highlights previous efforts at reform, new thinking, new practices, and computer-generated exams and scoring systems. Reports on focus group interviews that explore student recollections of in-class examinations in college-level science. (24 references) (JRH)