Four common uses for criterion-referenced tests (CRT) are outlined: describing student achievement, improving curriculum development, being sensitive indicators of the effects of instruction, and facilitating classroom management decisions. These uses parallel various forms of empirically establishing the content, concurrent, and predictive…

Two Minnesota Importance Questionnaire (MIQ) scales, Creativity and Independence were validated by experiment. Subjects (N=68) were exposed to four task conditions representing joint combinations of high or low levels of Creativity and Independence. The behavioral results were consistent with the subjects' MIQ score levels on the two scales,…

A scoreable biographical data key was developed for a group of women lower level managers, and applied to male and female managers. Showed statistical validity for both the cross-validation sample and for the samples of female and male managers. (Author)

Describes the development of the Maryland Work Value Inventory, designed to obtain research data and also to measure a range of attitudes held by high school students toward work, yielding useful data for subsequent studies. (MF)

More precise conception of the functions and limitations of prediction, validation, construct validity, and criterion referenced tests will not solve the problems which must be faced in using tests. It will not repel many of the current attacks on testing. But it should enable test specialists to think more clearly about some of those problems.…

This study provides information about the cross-time stability of the Elementary Form of the Estes Attitude Scales and provides additional evidence for the criterion-related validity of these scales. To meet these objectives, children in grades three and four were administered the Estes scales for three successive years. (LMO)

Affirms the evidence for predictive validity of assessment centers and concludes that assessment centers can work for a variety of purposes and in numerous contexts. Raises possible explainations for the predictive validity observed in assessment centers and raises implications for practice and guidance of future research. (Author/KS)

Demonstrates the criterion-related validity of behavior-based measure of work maturity. Measured the work-maturity levels of 142 youth enrollees in a job training program sponsored by the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA). Time Consciousness and Sociability predicted a weighted composite criterion composed of ten job performance dimensions.…

Cognitive ability tests, personality inventories, and administrative- skills measures were administered to 238 telephone company employees. A small number of interpretively and predictively useful molar personal/motivational scales were derived using factor analysis. Some measures from each of the domains of the assessment battery were found to be…

Prediction of success in a special program often guides program participant selection and treatment. If the statistical analysis used to develop such predictions is based on the special selectivity built into the program, the predictions can be misleading and the validation tests uninformative. Federal district court pretrial release data is used…

The generation of empirically-based equations is within the grasp of most researchers in occupational education. This paper was designed to develop a sensitivity to the need for cross-validation in these circumstances. Program CROSVAL is a means of bridging the gap between the need for, and mechanization of, cross validation. (Author/DS)

The SIT Correlates highly enough with ACT scores to be considered a valid instrument for predicting acceptance and success in college. (Authors)

The construct validity of three subtests of the Structure-of-Intellect Learning Abilities Test ( (1) Divergent Production of Figural Units (DFU), (2) Divergent Production of Semantic Units, and (3) Divergent Production of Symbolic Relations) was investigated and generally supported, although results were somewhat mixed with respect to the DFU…

Fifteen female varsity softball coaches were administered the Sport Competition Anxiety Test prior to competition. Their heart rates, continuously monitored by tilemetry, did not relate significantly to the anxiety test data. The test does not appear to be a valid measure of trait anxiety for women softball coaches. (Author/PN)