AN INVESTIGATION OF THE VALIDITY OF INTELLIGENCE AND OTHER TESTS USED IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF RETARDED CHILDREN WAS PERFORMED. EXPERIMENTAL SAMPLES CONSISTED OF 101 CHILDREN SELECTED FROM SPECIAL CLASSES FOR EDUCABLE MENTALLY RETARDED (EMR) WHOSE AGES RANGED FROM 6.9 TO 10 YEARS AND WHOSE IQ SCORES RANGED FROM 50 TO 80. THE TESTS EVALUATED WERE (1)…

Analysis of data on this algebra course, gathered by the Comprehensive Achievement Monitoring (CAM) system, indicated that equivalent scores were yielded by either random or chronological arrangement of the test items on the monitor forms. Chronological arrangement may be permissible, therefore, for normal data processing; random arrangement…

Similar results were obtained here to those reported in TM 000 052: Random and chronological item arrangements yielded equivalent scores; the cognitive tests were again limited predictors of posttest achievement; and there was no consistent pattern as to the learning curve providing the test fit for all students, even though these monitors…

IN ORDER TO DEVELOP AND EVALUATE MEASURING INSTRUMENTS FOR ASSESSING THE COGNITIVE CAPACITIES OF DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN, EXTENSIVE TESTING OF PRESCHOOL PUPILS AT 4 HEADSTART CENTERS IN CHICAGO WAS CONDUCTED. ACHIEVEMENT AND BEHAVIOR TESTS WERE ADMINISTERED DIRECTLY TO THE PUPILS. PUPILS' MOTHERS WERE INTERVIEWED AND TESTED TO OBTAIN INFORMATION…

Performance on The Scholastic Aptitude Test-Verbal (SAT-V) and Mathematical (SAT-M), the applicant's rank in class or Converted Secondary School Rank (Rank), and the applicant's general level of measured secondary school achievement as indicated by the Average of CEEB Achievement Tests (ACH AV) has been used by Vassar College as admissions…