This study tested the hypothesis that measured aptitudes and self-ratings of these same aptitudes reflect a common domain of psychometric behavior. Male and female applicants for vocational guidance completed a self-rating scale and then the General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB). The self-rating scale contained six vocational/educational aptitudes.…

Although speech-language pathologists are expected to be able to administer and interpret oral examinations, there are currently no screening tests available that provide careful administration instructions and data for intra-examiner and inter-examiner reliability. The Oral Speech Mechanism Screening Examination (OSMSE) is designed primarily for…

Case studies in six schools in two school districts were used to document the practice of school-based examining in action: identifying the reasons why teachers use it, the problems they encounter, and the various pay-offs which arise. Four ways of using school-based examining were identified: to ease externally-imposed organizational change; to…

Discusses the problems of grading, including the estimation by students of their own performance level. (Editor/PG)

This study was designed to investigate the relationships among three variables - item order, stress of test situation, and test anxiety. (Author/RK)

Significant relationships between the Holland Vocational Preference Inventory (VPI) and the Strong Vocational Interest Blank (SVIB) were again empirically demonstrated in this study, and conversion equations were developed to use standard scores of SVIB scales, rather than items, to produce estimates of VPI scores. (Author)

A questionnaire concerning the proposed format of the new ACS Physical Chemistry examination was sent to approximately 1,500 four-year institutions in the United States. The results of this questionnaire and their application to the design and construction of the exams published in the 1972-73 academic year are presented. (DT)

An investigation into the marking of physics examination papers containing a high proportion of derivations and manipulations of formulas is reported. Results showed a high consistency in marking among the six examiners who scored the papers. (DT)

The position of the "purists" who insist on limiting data to ordinal analysis is contrasted with the "pragmatists" who treat data as interval. (Author)

An alternative method of evaluating the candidate in the British university examination procedure is presented. (PG)

The purposes of the study were to develop a measure of overconfidence on probabilistic tests, to assess the measurement characteristics of such a measure, and to investigate the relationship of overconfidence on tests to knowledge and to risk-taking propensity. (Author/BB)

The prime contention of this paper is that applied linguists are capable of making a more substantial contribution than they have hitherto to the field of Language Skills Measurement. (Author)

The prediction that among male college students, the relationship between test anxiety and college achievement would be greater for socially mobile than for socially stable students is not borne out in this study at Lehman College. (Author/JH)