Instruments used to measure marital satisfaction over the family life cycle in two previous studies that obtained contradictory results were used on a new sample. The results suggest that the apparent contradictions were a function of measurement differences rather than population differences. (Author)

Concludes that on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children learning of the paired-associates and written speech discriminated between good and poor coders. (RB)

Argues that objective tests in secondary English will lead to a packaged humanity in which individuals are essentially similar. (Author/RB)

Results indicate that this psychological testing procedure is an effective screening device for patients presenting neuropathologic symptoms. (EK)

Rotter's Index of generalized expectancies for the internal or external control of reinforcement has been shown to predict successfully a variety of behaviors. An important future use of this scale may be the examination of the predictive power of individual items rather than generalized expectancies. (EK)

How some administrators are tackling testing, evaluation, and accountability concerns in open classroom programs is spelled out in this special report that includes nine examples of diagnostic, evaluative, and recordkeeping instruments devised by pioneering schools. (Author)

Results of an examination given under two levels of anxiety are discussed in their assessment of relationships between trait anxiety, transitory anxiety, mood, and performance. (Author/KM)

The results of this investigation support Watson's (1971) hypothesis that his Schizophrenia-Organicity scales might be valid discriminators of braindamaged and schizophrenic patients equated for degree of intellectual deficit. (Author)

Compares three prevalent techniques used in classifying drug addicts. (Author)

Variations of the screening method developed by Piaget and Frank made it possible to systematically vary the number and type of perceptual cues in the conservation of liquid quantity task. Results of testing 192 kindergarten and first graders suggest that the development of conservation involves several levels, beginning with a concept which can…

Configural frequency analysis (CFA), a new method for identifying types, is illustrated numerically. Relations to latent class analysis and to factor analysis are discussed. It is suggested to use CFA as a type-defining method instead of factor analysis if the variables are linked not only by first but also by higher-order associations. (RC)

A new test for increasing or decreasing trend in a set of observations is presented. Rather than making specific paired comparisons, as in the Cox and Stuart tests for trend, the user of the new test makes the comparisons of all possible pairs of observations. (Author)

Estimates for the variances of empirically determined scoring weights are given. It is also shown that test item writers should write distractors that discriminate on the criterion variable when this type of scoring is used. (Author)

Preparation of this paper aided by Grant MH-11521 from the National Institute of Mental Health, U.S. Public Health Service.