Students, if they elect to challenge both first-year nursing courses, must take two corresponding series of written and practical tests. Steps in devising the challenge exam system, maintaining high standards, testing format, general education requirements, and evaluation are topics discussed. (MW)

A multimedia test developed in the Criminal Investigator Supervisor's block of the Officer Advanced Course at the U.S. Army Military Police School for the 1972 sessions. (Author)

A discussion of an efficient assignment plan for the domain-referenced testing program to govern how examinees encounter the items. (Author)

A discussion of the role of domain-referenced testing in educational accountability. (HB)

A sample of 2,093 students was randomly selected from all Washington State high school juniors taking a pre-college test battery in 1973. For the entire sample "t" tests indicated males took significantly more mathematics and scored higher than females on quantitative, spatial, and mechanical tests, while females had significantly higher…

Discussed is testing in the field of career education for the handicapped, with emphasis on four major topics: applied performance testing, criterion validity studies, product vs. process measurement, and criterion vs. norm-referenced measurement. The author reviews some political considerations relevant to this area of testing. (IM)

Evaluated was the extent to which 101 primary grade and preschool Canadian teachers were satisfied with existing screening and testing services for children with possible learning disabilities. Results of the questionnaire indicated that 79% of the teachers believe that testing beyond the assessments carried out in the classroom is a good idea,…

Using conventional mental test theory, item parameters of an aptitude or achievement test vary with each group of examinees, and as such are somewhat limited in their use and interpretation. Within the last 25 years, measurement models have emerged in which item parameters are considered to be invariant. Generically referred to as latent trait…

This paper discusses the use of compliance tests and evaluation tests in two experiments dealing with specific questions of acceptability in English syntax. The experiments, conducted in 1970 at the University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee, involved undergraduate students in their third or fourth years. The compliance tests, which are operation oriented…

By analyzing different language tests currently in use for elementary school children, the article criticizes psychometric means of evaluation and ideas about language and language acquisition resulting from psychometric evaluation. (Text is in French.) (CLK)

An experimental phonetic investigation is described whose goal it was to develop a test which could be used to establish norms in the perception of vowels by native speakers of German. Particular emphasis is placed upon the design of the experiment. The test procedure and the results are discussed. Available from Albert J. Phiebig, Inc., P.O. Box…