A review of Principles of Educational and Psychological Testing (Drydens Press, 1970) (by Frederick G. Brown) and Study Guide to Accompany Principles of Education and Psychological Testing. (DS)

Ways in which to determine whether the aptitude, intelligence, or achievement test is more helpful are discussed. A test's function, i.e., how the test results are used, appears to be the most logical method of discriminating between the types of tests. In educational testing, if the purpose is to evaluate the effectiveness of teaching or…

Testing has been perceived as a panacea, an elixir for obtaining data on innate human abilities. Since the empirical research and the experience of clinicians has not been fully able to meet this expectation adequately, assessment has been ascribed the quality of having an illusionary nature. Hence, it has been proposed by various factions in the…

Causal attributions for a manipulated success-failure event were collected from college students on five different measuring instruments. Results indicated that the structured measures showed greater interest correlation validity than did the open-ended measure. (CM)

The extent to which essay and objective tests measure the same or different abilities when instruction and content remain constant is investigated. (PR)

THESE ARTICLES ARE WRITTEN TO GIVEN ESSENTIAL FACTS ON TESTING TO INTERESTED CITIZENS. THE IMPORTANCE OF TESTING LIES IN ITS VALUE AS A GUIDANCE TOOL. TESTS REPRESENT ONLY A SAMPLING OF A PERSON'S PERFORMANCE FROM WHICH GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS ARE INFERRED. THERE ARE NUMEROUS TYPES OF TESTS DESIGNED FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES, MEASUREMENT IN SOME IS…

Before selecting any measurement instrument the test user should always determine what it is he wants to know. A new instrument, The Assessment of Career Development (ACD), attempts to assess students' knowledge about jobs. One must, however, determine whether the content of the ACD is similar to the content of the career information system the…

The results of the present study suggested that PPVT and SIT IQs are not directly comparable to the WISC-R IQs when the moderate to low correlation coefficents are considered. In addition, the SIT appears to be more comparable to the WISC-R than does either Form A or Form B of the PPVT. (Author)

A MEASURE OF SELF-CONCEPT, CONSISTING OF A SERIES OF THREE TESTS, WAS RECOMMENDED TO AID THE STUDY OF ADOLESCENCE IN THE SECONDARY SCHOOL AND TO PROVIDE THE ADOLESCENT WITH A KNOWLEDGE OF SELF-CONCEPT THAT COULD HELP IN DECISION MAKING, PERCEPTION, AND THE ACQUISITION OF VALUES. SELF-CONCEPT RESEARCH AND THEORIES WERE REVIEWED AND REPORTED, AND…

This paper defines affective development as, "the growth of an individual's attitudes toward self, others, and institutions." The intent of this paper is to provide educators with the information necessary to use existing measures of affective development in the evaluation of their educational programs. This information includes: (1) a listing of…

A 4-year United States Office of Education prekindergarten-kindergarten series of research studies has provided data useful in predicting school success. The present study compares test scores of the Complete Assessment Battery administered before the children entered kindergarten with scores of the same children on the Metropolitan Readiness…

It was concluded that the abbreviated WISC-R may be appropriate when intelligence is a question relative to candidacy for therapy or as a noncritical, general indication of intelligence when IQ classification is not important and/or assessment time is limited. (Author)

So as to compare predicted achievement based upon WISC-R IQs and observed achievement by the WRAT standard scores, both instruments were administered by the same school psychologist to 282 urban students referred for psychological evaluation. The correlations obtained were substantial. (Author)

A heterogeneous group of elementary school children referred for psycho-educational diagnosis were rated on the Devereux Child Behavior Rating Scale and the Bender Visual-Motor Gestalt Test, scoring for Koppitz Emotional Indicators. Findings suggests that certain DCB factors may be more predictive of emotional problems than others in the scale.…