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Download full textBronson, Martha B. – 1975
This address presents a discussion of the rationale, procedures, reliability, and validity of the "Social and Nonsocial Executive Skills Profile." The skills profile was developed to identify and measure aspects of the preschool child's classroom behavior that are highly related to social and nonsocial competence. Executive competence is defined…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Evaluation, Guides, Interaction Process Analysis
Roudabush, Glenn E. – 1974
In this paper, several models for the psychometric nature of criterion-referenced tests are presented and results derived with implications for test construction, reliability and validity measures, and educational decision making. Both dichotomous and continuous underlying abilities to perform are considered. Illustrative data fitting both cases…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Decision Making, Evaluation Methods, Measurement Techniques
Manpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. U.S. Training and Employment Service. – 1970
The United States Training and Employment Service General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB), first published in 1947, has been included in a continuing program of research to validate the tests against success in many different occupations. The GATB consists of 12 tests which measure nine aptitudes: General Learning Ability; Verbal Aptitude; Numerical…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Building Trades, Career Guidance, Construction (Process)
Manpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. U.S. Training and Employment Service. – 1965
The United States Training and Employment Service General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB), first published in 1947, has been included in a continuing program of research to validate the tests against success in many different occupations. The GATB consists of 12 tests which measure nine aptitudes: General Learning Ability; Verbal Aptitude; Numerical…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Career Guidance, Cutting Scores, Evaluation Criteria
Manpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. U.S. Training and Employment Service. – 1962
The United States Training and Employment Service General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB), first published in 1947, has been included in a continuing program of research to validate the tests against success in many different occupations. The GATB consists of 12 tests which measure nine aptitudes: General Learning Ability; Verbal Aptitude; Numerical…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Career Guidance, Communication (Thought Transfer), Cutting Scores
Larkin, Kevin C.; Weiss, David J. – 1975
A 15-stage pyramidal test and a 40-item two-stage test were constructed and administered by computer to 111 college undergraduates. The two-stage test was found to utilize a smaller proportion of its potential score range than the pyramidal test. Score distributions for both tests were positively skewed but not significantly different from the…
Descriptors: Ability, Aptitude Tests, Comparative Analysis, Computer Programs
Fredrick, Wayne C.; And Others – 1970
The conceptualization of the term "psycholinguistic ability" led to the definition of an area of language behavior that is not well represented in achievement tests in English nor in existing tests of verbal intelligence. Thus, the Linguistic Ability Test (LAT) was designed, pilot-tested, revised, and field-tested in an attempt to…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Grade 6, Language Ability
Loudermilk, Kenneth M.; DiMinico, Gerald – 1969
The development and use of instruments for vocational guidance, selection, and placement within the State of Idaho are reviewed. Vocational guidance is defined as assisting the individual to understand himself, the world of work, and career choice. Selection and placement are described as activities characteristically used by educational…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Aptitude Tests, Career Counseling, Career Guidance
McNamara, J. Regis; And Others – 1968
About 180 Negro Head Start children in Dade County, Florida, were tested (1) to discover if the county's program contributed significantly to language skills, social skills, and self-concept development and (2) to determine if an efficient instrument could be developed to measure self-concept in the disadvantaged child. Pretests and posttests used…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged, Language Skills
Cawley, John F.; Goodman, John O. – 1967
The purposes of the study were to investigate the effects of the combination of a trained teacher and a planned program on the problem solving abilities of mentally handicapped children, to develop measures of verbal problem solving (IDES) and arithmetic understanding (PUT), and to analyze the interrelationships among primary mental abilities and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Arithmetic, Exceptional Child Research, Intelligence
Meese, M. Kathryn – 1971
A general model was built for assessing important complex educational goals. Literature on performance tests, process goals, and verbal protocols were critically examined. Advantages of these methodologies were incorporated into the model which was tested in an individualized mathematics inquiry laboratory which used whole-task approach. Five…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Curriculum Evaluation, Discovery Processes, Educational Objectives
Ross, Mark; Lerman, Jay – 1971
This individually administered test was designed to assess the speech discrimination ability of hearing-impaired children. The test consists of 25 pages, each of six pictures, and four lists of twenty-five cue words--a picture identification task in which the child points to one of six pictures upon hearing a cue word. It is best administered from…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Stimuli, Auditory Tests, Handicapped Children
Walker, Hill M. – 1967
The document, part two of a six part project report, discusses the construction and validation of a three stage model for assessing deviant behavior in children. The model was developed to meet the project's measurement, identification and diagnostic goals. Stage one consists of a 50 item behavior checklist which was used as an initial screening…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Change, Behavior Rating Scales, Check Lists
Frayer, Dorothy A. – 1971
A Paradigm for testing concept attainment, comprised of twelve tasks, was formulated. These tasks were hypothesized to form a cumulative hierarchy. Tests were constructed in mathematics and social studies using the paradigm. Data for these tests was analyzed by Kaiser's method for fitting a perfect simplex and Schonemann's method for fitting a…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Correlation, Data Analysis, Error of Measurement
Purkey, William W.; And Others – 1971
The Pupil Behavior Inventory was developed to infer learner self concept from teachers' ratings of eighteen items related to a pupil's overt classroom behavior. Split-halves reliability estimates for eleven teachers was 0.93 and reliability of the total score means of three raters for eleven students was 0.84. Four areas related to self concept as…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Schools, Factor Analysis, Rating Scales
