Examined Extended Objective Measure of Ego Identity Status for reliability and validity among 467 secondary school students. Results were supportive of appropriateness of all measures for the subjects. Analysis of reliability, validity, demographic characteristics, and psychosocial maturity yielded results which parallel theoretical framework and…

Evaluation of patients on the Cognitive Status Examination (CSE) significantly discriminated the brain-damaged from the psychiatric and medical groups. Examined the relationship of scores to age and education, as well as the effect of demographics on group discrimination. Presents a distribution of cutting scores for screening purposes. (Author/KS)

Reviews the Learning and Study Strategies Inventory (LASSI), a test designed to measure college students' learning and study strategies through self report. Advises that the test is still in experimental form, with a questionable norm group, and thus must be used with caution, especially in interpreting percentile ranks. (SKC)

Traces student comprehension in beginning economics course examinations in the United Kingdom from 1969 to 1973. Demonstrates that males performed better on multiple-choice tests, females performed better on essay examinations, and that female learning rates were lower than male learning rates. Reviews the influence of precollege courses. Includes…

A multiple-choice achievement test was constructed in which both cognitive level and degree of abstractness were controlled in test items. By controlling both dimensions, researchers hoped that the variance in achievement scores of earlier research could be accounted for. Results of testing education majors are discussed. (Author/MT)

Two studies with 139 male and 149 female undergraduate students and 79 female college students, respectively, assessed the development and validation of the Need for Cognition (NFC) Scale, which has 45 true/false items. Three subscales (Cognitive Persistence, Cognitive Confidence, and Cognitive Complexity) were identified. Some results concerning…

Three commonly used measures of segregation (index of dissimilarity, p* interaction probabilities, and the correlation ratio) reflect three conceptually distinct aspects of racial residential segregation. The results of empirical studies will depend on the measure chosen. (Author/KH)

Summarizes reliability and validity studies reported about the Student Developmental Task Inventory, second edition (SDTI-2), an objective assessment instrument based on Chickering's theory of psychosocial development described in Education and Identity. Outlines other findings related to differences in psychosocial development. (Author/ABB)

Evaluated the criterion-related validity of the Family Beliefs Inventory, a new self-report measure of unreasonable beliefs regarding parent-adolescent relationships. Distressed fathers displayed more unreasonable beliefs concerning ruination, obedience, perfectionism, and malicious intent than nondistressed fathers. Distressed adolescents…

Concludes that the test has basic problems in construction, interpretation, validity, and reliability. (FL)

The current study explores the item structure of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). A factor analysis of responses of a large sample yielded six salient factors, four resembling the four scales of the MBTI. (Author/LMO)

A literature review and a proposed means of measuring face validity, a test's appearance of being valid, are presented. Empirical evidence from examinees' perceptions of a college entrance examination support the reliability of measuring face validity. (GDC)

The FRI and GORT tests are reviewed with attention to test rationales and purposes, test development, test administration, and making the purchase choice. Concludes that the FRI is the preferable test. (JK)

The 72-item Erikson Psychosocial Stage Inventory (EPSI) was factor analyzed for a group of 534 university freshmen and sophomore students. Seven factors emerged, which were labeled Initiative, Industry, Identity, Friendship, Dating, Goal Clarity, and Self-Confidence. Item's representing Erikson's factors, Trust and Autonomy, were dispersed across…

Lists the dangers of readability formulas and concludes that while they may be a necessary evil, they should not be used as the underlying structure of a reading program. (FL)