Investigates the influence of handwriting style and composition errors on the marking of essays. (DS)

Bias in interest testing occurs if tests are used to encourage an individual to consider, enter, or reject an occupation or type of occupation on the basis of an irrelevant variable, sex. In general, the externally referenced inventories, which reflect the current state of affairs and have well established predictive powers, have the most…

Reports on results of the Developmental Hand Function Test administered to 28 educable mentally retarded and 34 normal 12-and 14-year-old girls to show that manual dexterity and functional had skills are compromised in the mentally retarded. (DS)

Revised version of a paper presented at the 1971 Southern Sociological Society Convention (NQ)

A report on research conducted to help build a competency based approach for the preparation of middle school teachers. (Author)

Student administered oral examination compared to the conventional written, objective examination. (IR)

Explained for the parents of handicapped children are the purposes and rationale of personality tests as part of a battery of psychological tests involved in comprehensive psychological evaluation. (KW)

The difficulty of assessing mathematical understanding, some literature and research on the question of measures of understanding, and some examples of items on a test used to measure mathematical understanding are discussed. (DT)

Sixth-grade pupils wrote, illustrated and bound books for children in a Head Start program, testing them first on kindergartners in their own school. They thus gained a better understanding of what they themselves do when they read. (PD)

Investigates number of Rorschach responses given by male and female Ss to male and female Es. Results reveal male E-female S situation produces unique results. (EK)