A procedure for inferring the validity of a selection test as a predictor of some criterion when the available data are limited due to prior selection is described. (Author/JKS)

The reliability and stability of the Full Scale IQ scores of retarded adolescents and young adults of three Wechsler Scales were measured. (Author)

Results obtained from observations of the interactions of 20 mother/infant pairs supported the hypothesis that high interactional stability would be strongly linked to low levels of crying during social attention. (MP)

Validity and reliability of a videotaped speechreading test, "Eyes and Spoken Language," designed to assess how effectively a person utilizes linguistic constraints in responding to spoken language via the visual pathway, were established using responses of 68 nonhearing impaired young adults. A significant learning effect was…

The Levels of Verbal Intimacy Technique (LOVIT) was developed as an observational system to document verbal interaction in groups. Although rating-scale data produced information confirming order and interval spacing of six categories derived from theoretical assumptions about developmental processes in T-groups, more investigation is needed about…

The construct validity of the Role Questionnaire (Rizzo, et al.) for teachers was assessed through an analysis of the complete responses of a randomly selected sample of 448 Massachusetts teachers. The results of this cross-validation provide support for the construct validity of the questionnaire. (Author/PN)

The Citizenship Knowledge Test contains subtests designed to measure subareas of the overall construct of citizenship knowledge. Two factor analysis studies indicated that the test is construct valid. It can, therefore, be used as a general measure of the construct citizenship knowledge. (Author/RM)

Indicates that the Rix modification of the Lix Readability Formula is easy to calculate, correlates highly with other popular formulas, and is useful for materials for grades 3 through 12. (AEA)

Environmental Health Proficiency Examinations which are based on the Role Delineation Study were developed for use by registration agencies. To validate the examinations, performance measures of on-the-job practice were administered along with the examinations. Results show that examinations are valid but not perfect predictors of on-the-job…

The results of this study comparing cloze test performances by plagiarists and non-plagiarists indicated substantial differences in error rates for these two groups. The data support the original hypothesis that the cloze procedure may be used as a valid and sensitive measure for discriminating plagiarists and non-plagiarists. (Author/BW)

The factorial validity and internal consistency reliability of the Devereux Elementary School Behavior Rating Scale were examined with a random sample of elementary school children. Given the problem of multicollinearity that was shown to exist among subscales, the authors suggest caution in the interpretation of Devereux subscales as discrete…

Reports that when given only the choices to reading comprehension items, some students are able to identify the correct choices without reference to the associated passage or the item stems, a characteristic that threatens the validity of reading comprehension tests. (Author/FL)

Concludes that H. R. Myklebust's Pupil Rating Scale is significantly and substantially related to reading and mathematics achievement as measured by the Metropolitan Achievement Test and the Short Form Test of Academic Aptitude. (FL)

The Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale was administered to 534 children (grades 4-6) at the beginning and end of the school year. The total anxiety score correlated .68 across the nine-month period, supporting the temporal stability of the test. (Author/BW)

Using 60 fourth- to seventh-grade learning disabled (LD), normal, and gifted students, the comparability of representations of self-concept across groups was analyzed for the Sears and Coopersmith inventories. (Author/SW)