Identifies those error items on the Bender-Gestalt Test which tend to discriminate over age and identifies those items which do not discriminate beyond certain ages. (RB)

Considers some of the problems of the Grasha-Riechmann Student Learning Style Scales and discusses the instrument's usefulness. (RB)

Results of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory data were correlated to see if they were related to demographic and behavioral data. Analysis was done for male and female subjects. A significant number of reliable correlates were identified. (Author/EK)

Article evaluated the weaknesses in the WISC because it is used to make far reaching decisions about the educational programs of children. (Author/RK)

This followup to a previous study questioning the use of the Academic Achievement score on the SVIB to predict the academic achievement of women supports the earlier study's results. (HMV)

The purpose of this study was to reexamine the earlier results for two item-writing practices using different methods for developing the instruments. (Author)

The expected reliability of a multiple choice test is maximized by the use of three alternative items. (Author)

Hostility measurement instruments are interpreted as measures of an individual's capacity to regard himself as hostile, rather than as measures of the actual hostility of his behavior. (Author/DEP)

First grade children in Israel were tested on the Wechsler Preschool Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI); most were retested using measures of Reading and Arithmetic. Intelligence and achievement test scores were correlated to provide estimates of the predictive validity of the WPPSI. The Israeli WPPSI was highly valid for predicting school…

Alters two existing achievement motivation tests so that combined forms could be simultaneously administered to a mixed male and female population and so that both instruments could be given to a younger, more heterogeneous group than that represented by college students. Reliability and validity were assessed. (RC)

The hypothesis was tested that subjects fake personality tests by enacting a specific social role, rather than by responding in terms of personality constructs, and that such role faking cannot be detected by validity scales. Results support the hypothesis. (Author)

A simple computer system developed to carry out audiometric procedures that complement the human limitations of the audiologist was evaluated with 36 patients at a veterans hospital. (LS)