The form of the Johnson-Neyman region of significance is shown to be determined by the statistic for testing the null hypothesis that the population within-group regressions are parallel. Results are obtained for both simultaneous and nonsimultaneous regions of significance. (Author)

The G index is a measure of the similarity between individuals over dichotomous items. Some tests for the G-index are described. For each case an example is included. (Author/GK)

Presently available test statistics for the Rasch model are shown to be insensitive to violations of the assumption of test unidimensionality. Two new statistics are presented. One is similar to available statistics, but with some improvements; the other addresses the problem of insensitivity to unidimensionality. (Author/JKS)

A table is provided and described for prorating Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory scales when the entire Form R has not been completed. Good concordance of profile types was found for 300 and 350 completed questions. Interpretations based on 200 items may be suspect. (Author)

Discusses the potential of a test to instruct students and thus facilitate their learning. The author shows various ways of giving a carefully prepared test on a second occasion. (RM)

If the null hypothesis of a one-sample test of multivariate means is rejected, the dimension of the line joining the population centroid and the hypothesized centroid can be interpreted with a linear function, using a discriminant function and the correlation of each dependent variable with a discriminant score. (Author/BW)

The validity conditions for univariate repeated measures designs are described. Attention is focused on the sphericity (equality of variance) requirement. It is recommended that separate rather than pooled error term procedures be routinely used to test a priori hypotheses. (Author/JKS)

Procedures for the analysis of profiles of means in repeated measures designs under order restriction for patterns of mean change are described. Tables of critical values are provided for the case of simple-order alternatives. (Author/JKS)

Global achievement tests are best used for broad purposes (program evaluation) or purposes such as screening which will be followed up with more precise instruments. (SB)

Argues in favor of using assessment and achievement tests in the English curriculum. Points out the positive effects of testing. (RL)

Cattell's scree test and Bartlett's chi-square test for the number of factors to be retained from a factor analysis are shown to be based on the same rationale, with the former reflecting subject sampling variability, and the latter reflecting variable sampling variability. (Author/JKS)

The popular factor analytic procedure of putting unities in the main diagonal and retaining all factors with an eigenvalue greater than one is criticized with respect to the number of factors retained and resultant estimates of common variance. Ways of avoiding these difficulties are discussed. (JKS)

Monte Carlo techniques were used to compare the power of Wilcoxon's rank-sum test to the power of the two independent means t test for situations in which samples were drawn from (1) uniform, (2) Laplace, (3) half-normal, (4) exponential, (5) mixed-normal, and (6) mixed-uniform distributions. (Author/JKS)

Errors of misclassification associated with two concept acquisition criteria and their effects on the actual significance level and power of a statistical test for sequential development of these concepts are presented. Explicit illustrations of actual significance levels and power values are provided for different misclassification models.…

The effect of the variance stabilizing transformations on the significance level and power of the F test, applied to Binomial and Poisson variables, was examined by a Monte Carlo study. The results indicate that the significance level is not affected by the transformations. (Author/JKS)