Discusses practical strategies reading teachers may employ in dealing with state-mandated minimal reading requirements. Includes cautions and suggestions for dealing with test limitations. (TJ)

Student placement in an initial mathematics course was investigated using either a programed test administered by a computer or a traditional test administered in a conventional manner. The former method was favored. (MP)

Research supports previous findings in which situation-specific anxiety trait instruments have been shown to be better predictors of behavior than general anxiety trait instruments or coaches' subjective ratings, and it support the predictive and construct validity of the Sport Competition Anxiety Test (SCAT). (MB)

Two experiments investigated the amount and loci of multiple-choice examination answer copying as related to the spacing of students and the use of alternate test forms. (RC)

The behaviors for which juvenile females are placed in court custody are most frequently related to sexual delinquency, "incorrigibility", and running away. Psychologically, these behaviors can be viewed as acting on impulses in ways prohibited by prevailing social norms. Examines the possibility that female delinquency represents an…

The components of a system for practical skills assessment or trade testing is discussed. The system, called Progressive Assessment Testing (PAT), is used in the normal workshop situation and enables the employer to identify and correct weaknesses in performance at the appropriate point in the training process. (Author/EC)

Discusses employment testing, its control by the federal government, and the sources of influence attempting to cause the government to shape psychological testing to their own viewpoints. (RK)

Some contemporary trends in social and clinical psychology suggest that individual differences in imaging abilities may become increasingly important. Outlines some of the conceptual and methodological problems that must be clarified if productive research is to be undertaken and reports results of three studies designed to isolate tests which…

In a recently reported study, the functional components of imagery and vocalization strategies in children's verbal discrimination learning were examined, following the combined experimental/correlational logic of Underwood. The present research extends those results to a strategy that (unlike imagery and vocalization) has a positive influence on…

Words presented with regular acoustic onsets are not "perceptually" regular. The requirements for perceived regularity were investigated, and the "perceptual center" (P-center) of a word was defined as its psychological moment of occurrence. (Editor)

In this research subjects are asked to justify three common erroneous solutions and the correct solution, all of which purport to be the "correct solution". It was predicted that the subjects would give reasons supporting any given solution, and indicate a high degree of confidence in the correctness of their justifications. (Author/RK)

It is pointed out that interpretation of learning set data will be easier and more informative if one uses a "first-order" problem, that is, one which can be solved on the first trial at the end of training. (Editor)

The effect of test content and context on the anxiety-intelligence relationship was investigated in a group-administration of an intelligence measure presumably free of anxiety-provoking cues, comprehension of cartoons and several conventional intelligence and achievement measures. Subjects were 177 boys and girls in grades 4 to 6. (MS)

In his comment, Black (AA 526 155) argued that Maier and Seligman (EJ 138 911) incorrectly interpreted competing motor response explanations of the learned helplessness effect. Here, it is argued that no article that has proposed a competing motor response explanation of the learned helplessness effect has alluded to a mechanism similar to the one…