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Peer reviewedFrank, Austin C. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1971
In testing the Academic Achievement scale, no relationship was found to persistence or between entering first-year Academic Achievement scale scores and 4-year grade point average. Comparisons with a scholastic ability test were unfavorable, other results ambiguous, and caution seems indicated in using the scale. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Measurement, Prediction, Predictive Measurement
Download full textGlasnapp, Douglas R. – 1967
The Metropolitan Readiness tests, first published in 1948 (forms R and S), were revised in 1966 (forms A and B). This study was instigated as a result of the charge that the revisions of the tests made them more difficult and more unfair to deprived children. Thirty-six Caucasian beginning first graders (divided evenly by high and low…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Disadvantaged, Evaluation, Predictive Measurement
Peer reviewedQuirk, Thomas J.; And Others – Review of Educational Research, 1973
Background and purposes of the National Teacher Examinations (NTE) and the hazards of combining data on these tests in research studies are discussed; the predictive validity of the NTE with in-service teachers is analyzed. Suggestions are made for closer correlation between rating scales and what the standardized tests themselves attempt to…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Predictive Measurement, Predictive Validity, Teacher Education
Millman, Jason – Educational Technology, 1974
A discussion of an efficient assignment plan for the domain-referenced testing program to govern how examinees encounter the items. (Author)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Item Sampling, Measurement Techniques, Predictive Measurement
The Test of Ability to Subordinate: Predictive and Concurrent Validity for Attained ESL Composition.
Perkins, Kyle – 1981
This paper reports the results of a study in which the following issues were addressed: (1) whether there is a strong relationship between syntactic enhancement, as measured by Davidson's Test of Ability to Subordinate (TAS), and overall writing ability; (2) whether a subordination test has any predictive ability for attained writing proficiency;…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Higher Education, Predictive Measurement, Scoring
Rowe, Wayne – Measurement and Evaluation in Guidance, 1973
A group of 44 undergraduates was administered the Personal Orientation Inventory under different instructions to fake good'' toward two expectations. Results indicated that scores were significantly affected in the hypothesized directions. Earlier findings about the effect of dissimulation on PO1 scores were equivocal and conclusions expressed…
Descriptors: College Students, Data Analysis, Interest Inventories, Interests
Bureau of Employment Security (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1965
THE POSSIBILITY OF PREDICTIVE ERROR WHEN APPLYING U.S. MAINLAND NORMS FOR THE GENERAL APTITUDE TEST BATTERY TO THE EMPLOYMENT COUNSELING AND SELECTION PROCESS IN PUERTO RICO, PROMPTED A STUDY TO ESTABLISH LOCAL NORMS FOR THE SPANISH LANGUAGE VERSION, BATERIA GENERAL DE PRUEBAS DE APTITUD. A STRATIFIED QUOTA SAMPLE OF 1,500 PERSONS WAS SELECTED…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Employment Statistics, Labor Force, Local Norms
CRAWFORD, MARGARET L. – 1966
MEASUREMENT OF INDIVIDUAL TRAITS AND SEPARATE FACTORS OF INTELLIGENCE FOLLOWED BY EMPIRICAL COMBINATION OF THESE MEASURES INTO APTITUDE TEST BATTERIES SHOULD BE THE BASIS OF SELECTION OF STUDENTS FOR VOCATIONAL TRAINING. DURING THE PAST 14 YEARS, TRADE-TECHNICAL COLLEGE HAS DEVELOPED AND VALIDATED SUCH TEST BATTERIES FOR SOME 55 TRADE AND…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Career Counseling, Predictive Measurement, Test Validity
McCormick, Ernest J.; And Others – 1977
A study dealt with the use of the Position Analysis Questionnaire (PAQ) within a job component validity framework as the basis for estimating aptitude requirements of jobs represented by scores on commercially available tests as contrasted with scores on General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB) tests. Procedures generally consisted of the use of job…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Occupational Tests, Performance Tests, Predictive Measurement
Britt, Morris F. – 1967
A Color Association Exercise (CAE) with four scales (Originality, Abstraction, Fluency, and Elaboration) was devised to assess verbal creative ability. When administered to 173 adolescent students, the Color Association Exercise appeared to have only moderate potential as an assessment technique for verbal creative ability. Abstraction and…
Descriptors: Creativity, Creativity Research, Language Ability, Measurement
Pike, Lewis W.; Mahoney, Margaret H. – 1969
How well an aptitude test battery predicts rated job performance for Negroes and whites, and how well a battery selected for one group predicts performance for the other, is examined. Supervisory ratings were used as the criterion of job performance. Tests selected to predict performance in the job of Medical Laboratory technicians were validated…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Blacks, Correlation, Culture Fair Tests
Peer reviewedBrooks, Sarah; Hartz, Mary A. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1978
The predictive ability of a mathematics test organized into a branching test for computer-interactive administration was investigated. Twenty-five blocks of five items were used in the branching. Each testee took 25 items, with each subsequent block being determined by prior performance. Results supported the branching technique. (JKS)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Branching, College Mathematics, Computer Assisted Testing
Peer reviewedPrimoff, Ernest S. – Personnel Psychology, 1980
Self-assessments combined with achievements and test scores lead to increased accuracy and fairness in examining, but require adjustment for degree of understanding of the element to be rated. This kind of analysis appears promising for studies designed to reduce adverse impact of tests. (Author)
Descriptors: Employment Qualifications, Job Applicants, Job Performance, Predictive Measurement
Warren, Sue Allen; Gardner, David C. – 1977
The Vocational Instruction, Training and Assessment (VITA) Project conducted a study to determine whether a battery of tests used with a sample of handicapped students enrolled in vocational education program(s) could aid in predicting success in vocational training. Procedures, instruments, and student samples were selected to provide data on (1)…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Experience, Guidelines, Handicapped Students
Feitz, Robert H. – 1973
This study looked at Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT) scores by race in relation to medical college status. It was found that promoted students differed significantly on all four MCAT subtests from those dismissed for academic difficulties and those repeating a year. For both black and white racial groups, the latter two status categories…
Descriptors: Admission (School), Dropouts, Expectancy Tables, Failure
