The concept of psychosocial competence, or psychological effectiveness is investigated via three studies on college and high school students. The Behavioral Attributes of Psychosocial Competence measure used in these studies were found to differentiate between students rated competent or not competent by external sources. (JKS)

Reliability and validity data are reported for a 38-item questionnaire measure of individual differences in achieving tendency, which is an expanded and improved version of Mehrabian's scales. (Author/JKS)

The Kinesthetic Aftereffect (KAE) has been criticized as a personality measure because of its poor retest reliability and questionable validity. However, KAE's lower reliabilty can be explained by systematic bias effects occuring in pretesting. When the validity evidence is reevaluated in this light, "questionable" validity disappears.…

This study, using the Vocational Preference Inventory and the Self-Directed Search, explored the concurrent validity of Holland's theory for employed college-degreed Black women. The findings support the validity of Holland's theory for this population. (Author)

False-positive and false-negative decisions are the two possible errors committed with a mastery test; yet the estimation of the likelihood of committing these errors has not been investigated. Two methods of this type of estimation are presented and discussed. (Author/JKS)

A recently developed test of basic Piagetian abilities, the Colored Blocks Test, is described, and new data collected in rural Hawaii and in a working class Chicago suburb are used to defend its validity as a tool for cross-cultural measurement of cognitive development. (Author/AM)

The place of testing in education is discussed. It is concluded that tests should be used as the supplements they are intended to be, and they should be used after thorough examination of their suitability has been made by test and education experts. (Author)

To explain the test score decline in reading and writing, the author suggests that neither tests nor instruction is accomplishing what each purport to do and that both have ignored an underlying cultural shift. (Editor)

The Personal Health Survey (PHS) is a 200-item inventory designed to sample symptomatology as subjective experiences from the 12 principal domains of organ system and psychophysiological functioning. This study investigates the factorial validity of the empirically constructed scales. (Author)

The past 11 years of published research investigating the use of the Bender Gestalt Test with school-age children are reviewed. Seen as a psychometric instrument, scored according to standardized procedures, this recent work does not conclusively support use of the test for prediction of school achievement or emotional disturbance. (Author)

WISC and WISC-R IQs of two groups of normal 10-year-old children from divergent socioeconomic backgrounds were compared in a counter-balanced research design. Significantly higher WISC IQs were obtained on Verbal and Full Scales of low socioeconomic group and on Performance and Full Scales of high socioeconomic group. (Author)

A random sample of all sixth-grade students enrolled in a large urban school district completed the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills. The correspondence of test vectors measured by the test was analyzed. Results suggest that the ITBS does not measure exactly the same constructs across student ethnic groups. (Author)

The STAIC (State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children) was administered to 1,522 third and fourth grade Black disadvantaged children from a large metropolitan school district. (Author)

It is argued that a major failing of most measures of self-esteem is that they do not take into account the value system of the individual subject. A method of measuring self-esteem is proposed based upon self-ratings in life areas, and the importance of those areas to the subject. (Author/JAC)

Good measurement of sexism depends on a determination of the dimensionality of this attitude, as well as on reliability and validity. Four studies investigated the dimensionality of sexism and the nature of the dimensions to assure that none represents superficial responding. A single, general attitude seems justified by the results. (Author/CT M)