The article provides a table of the 50 most commonly used assessment instruments for use with visually impaired individuals. Cognitive, achievement, reading, mathematics, spelling, language, listening/auding, perceptual motor, early childhood, and career education tests are reviewed. (Author/SBH)

This quarterly bulletin provides brief annotations for tests recently acquired by the Educational Testing Service Collection. The tests are grouped into several categories, including: (1) achievement, (2) personality, interest, attitudes and opinions, and (3) sensory-motor and miscellaneous. Additional information includes test announcements,…

Emerging areas and critical problems related to computer-based testing are identified. Topics covered include adaptive testing; calibration; item selection; multidimensional items; uses of information processing theory; relation to cognitive psychology; and tests of short-term and spatial memory, perceptual speed and accuracy, and movement…

A battery of seven psychomotor/perceptual tests was administered to two samples of Air Force personnel: officer trainees slated to attend undergraduate navigator training, and enlisted airmen in 30 different career fields. The objective was to determine the validity of the battery for the prediction of success in technical training courses. The…

In order to develop a valid replacement for the difficult to administer and costly Chalk Carving Test presently used in screening Dental Laboratory Specialist (DLS) candidates, an experimental battery of perceptual tests was given to 172 prospective DLS students. Dexterity tests were also given to a subsample. Experimental laboratory ratings and…

This quarterly bulletin provides brief annotations for tests recently acquired by the Educational Testing Service Test Collection. The tests are grouped into these categories: (1) achievement, (2) aptitude, (3) personality, interests, attitudes, and opinions, (4) sensory-motor and miscellaneous. Entries of particular interest to those working with…

As part of the United States Army's Project A, research has been conducted to develop and field test a battery of experimental tests to complement the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery in predicting soldiers' job performance. Project A is the United States Army's large-scale manpower effort to improve selection, classification, and…

The 345 references in this bibliography include articles from the periodical literature, books, and conference proceedings, and concentrate on these topics: theoretical and practical aspects of testing, historical development of testing, instructions, manuals, and methods of administration, test descriptions and evaluation, development of adapted…

The Auditory Automotive Mechanics Diagnostic Achievement Test assesses an automobile mechanic's ability to determine mechanical faults from auditory cues alone. The 44-item test and its instructions are recorded on magnetic tape; answer choices are presented on tape, and are also written in the printed test booklets. The norming and validity…