For the principles studied here, poor item-writing practices serve to obscure (or attentuate) differences between good and poor students. (Authors)

The Psychiatric Evaluation Form is a new rating scale designed to record scaled judgments of a subject's functioning during a 1-week period. (Author)

Describes validation procedures used with an individually administered test involving a branching program format to assess students level of cognitive achievement in biology. Reports results of comparisons of classes of teachers with BSCS or non-BSCS backgrounds. (AL)

This study investigated the reliability and validity of the Philosophical Belief Inventory (PBI). With the exception of the relationship between idealism and pragmatism and realism and existentialism, the PBI scales appear to be assessing independent facets of belief. (Author)

Presents the procedures, results, and conclusions of a study designed to determine the development of the intellectual skills needed for understanding of the nature of scientific enquiry by BSCS pupils in Israel. (LC)

Studies of preschool indicate that: (1) valid and reliable measures of the environment are possible; (2) environments vary across programs; and (3) there is a relationship between the environment and development of children in those environments. The Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale shows promise for both research and training. (Author/LC)

Examines Rasmussen's Ego Identity Scale for internal consistency reliability and construct validity. Subjects included 114 primarily White and middle-class seventh- and twelfth-grade students. Implications for identity assessment are drawn. (Author/RH)