Data are presented evaluating the validity and reliability of the Personality Assessment Questionnaire (PAQ), a self-report questionnaire designed to elicit respondents' perceptions of themselves with respect to seven personality and behavioral dispositions: hostility and aggression, dependence, self-esteem, self-adequacy, emotional…

Many states have adopted minimal competency testing in reading or writing, assuming that goals of basic education are measurable and that testing for such goals is technologically feasible. It is not clear that such testing comes at a time in history when the quality of education is demonstrably lower than at other times in American education. The…

Brief guidelines for the selection of norm referenced tests are offered. Four considerations in selecting an appropriate test are: (1) appropriateness of test content; (2) appropriateness of the norm group; (3) test reliability; and (4) ease of administration. (MH)

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…

The purpose of this study was to validate the Prescriptive Instructional Program for Educational Readiness (PIPER) for utilization as a criterion referenced test (CRT) among learning disabled children. The program consisted of behavioral objectives and diagnostic and/or mastery tasks and activities for each objective in the area of gross motor…

The 1978 New York City Test Report indicates that forty-three percent of those tested in that year in the City's public schools are reading at or above grade level. These results, however, when summarized in this way, are meaningless. The graph prepared for this article traces the reading levels of the school system and its 32 districts for…

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…

THE EXTENT OF THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE BOTEL READING INVENTORY, FORMS A AND B, AND SELECTED STANDARDIZED TESTS TO THE INSTRUCTIONAL READING LEVEL OF PUPILS IN GRADES 1 TO 6 WERE INVESTIGATED TO PROVIDE EVIDENCE CONCERNING THE VALIDITY OF THE TESTS. THE COOPERATIVE CHECKOUT WAS EMPLOYED AS A CRITERION. TEACHER OBSERVATION AND PUPIL ORAL READING…

The School Environment Preference Schedule (SEPS) measures, at the junior- and senior-high school level, "bureaucratic orientation," which is measured, at the adult level, by the Work Environment Preference Schedule (WEPS) of the same author. High scores typify the student who accepts and defers to authority, who prefers specific rules…

This paper briefly describes three studies in which the Paired Hands Test was used to assess the other-concept as a means of evaluating project or program objectives. The first study involved the use of the Paired Hands Test to evaluate an Afro-American Curriculum Project in which teachers recieved training in the development of a curriculum…

The objectives of the "Mental Measurements Yearbooks" (MMY), published in seven volumes since 1938, have been to provide information about tests published as separates throughout the English speaking world and to present frankly critical test reviews. This monograph, reflecting the changing state of the art over 50 years of English testing,…

The Starkweather Originality Test is designed to measure the creative potential of children ranging in age from 3 years, 6 months to 6 years, 6 months. Children younger than 3 years, 6 months can be given the Originality Test if their ability to communicate verbally is satisfactorily demonstrated during the pretest. The test is individually…

Approximately 300 ninth grade Navajo boys and girls attending Intermountain School for the first time or returning after a lengthy absence participated in two projects of psychological evaluations and vision, speech, and hearing evaluations. Analysis of the psychological testing (involving achievement, aptitude, and self concept measurements)…

Investigated were the effects of two levels of penalty for incorrect responses on two dependent variables (a measure of risk-taking or confidence, based on nonsense items, and the number of response-attempts to legitimate items) for three treatment groups in a 2x3, multi-response repeated measures, multivariate ANOVA (Analysis of Variance) design.…

In learning potential (LP) tests, intelligence is measured by repeated administrations of reasoning tasks, with interpolated training in problem-relevant strategies. In a comparison of the differential sensitivity and validity of LP and IQ measures, subjects were divided into three IQ groups: bright normal, dull-to-average, and subnormal (EMR). In…