Confusion has arisen because tests are described as criterion-referenced or norm-referenced. Generally, these terms should apply to scores and not to tests since either type of score may be obtained for any test. Various terms such as absolute scores, fixed-standard scores and mastery-test scores may be more appropriate substitutes for…

Developed by curriculum coordinating unit staff, this teacher's handbook was prepared for use in planning and implementing a course in career orientation. Material for the course is divided into eight instructional units which correspond to Roe's eight categories, namely: (1) Service, (2) Business Contact, (3) Organization, (4) Technology, (5)…

The instructional effectiveness of videotaped instruction in basic oral English to non-English speaking, adult speakers of Spanish is the focus of this report. A field testing program involving subjects who had been exposed to the films developed by the Southwestern Cooperative Educational Laboratory ascertains the effectiveness of the lessons in…

In this 4-part study, 1970 test data from 45 American Indian youth (aged 11-15) attending Riverside Summer Institute in Anadarko, Oklahoma, were examined. Part 1 of the study sought to identify the pattern of strengths and weaknesses on the "Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children" (WISC) of Indian students with average intelligence and…

The third Annual Nuevas Vistas Conference focused on the state's responsibility for providing equal educational opportunities for California citizens of Mexican descent. Practical solutions to the problems of educating Mexican American pupils were identified, and progress since the first Nuevas Vistas conference was reviewed. Included in the…

To evaluate the Follow Through portion of the Planned Variation program (1967-1970) eight distinct approaches were studied. The approaches rest on differing philosophical and psychological premises and employ a variety of pedagogical strategies. A battery of 14 existing and specially developed measures were used to cover the cognitive area.…

A summer program conducted in two schools involved 154 nursery school and kindergarten children. Eligibility was determined by economic criteria, ability to attend the full 5-week program, and probability of benefit from the program. Pupil-teacher ratios were generally 9 to 1; part-time psychological and speech services and a nurse were also…

This outline of orientation for people who design and conduct manpower programs for disadvantaged workers discusses objectives of the orientation, characteristics of enrollees, structure and content of the program, methods of communication, measurement of progress in orientation, counseling and supportive services, testing and assessment, and…

Language acquisition in children, ages 6 to 10 years, and their linguistic competence with respect to complex aspects of English syntax, are studied. The nature of specific disparities between adult and child grammar are discussed, and the gradual reduction of these disparities as the children's knowledge of language increases is traced. In all,…

This study was designed to examine the validity and test-retest reliability of Holland's Vocational Preference Inventory (VPI) for 61 adult women. The VPI was administered at the beginning of a group guidance program and the preference for Holland's six personality styles - intellectual, conventional, enterprising, realistic, social, artistic -…

A standardized method has been developed which will convert prose training materials into a form which forces the trainees to read the material with at least a minimal level of comprehension. The materials, called programed prose materials, are developed in an objective manner amenable to computer production. Phase I of the project involved an…

The effects of systematically varying the administration procedure of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) for Anglo and Spanish American children were studied. Procedures used were standard, verbal feedback and monetary feedback for correct answers. Ninety rural 5th grade students from southern New Mexico were divided into 3 groups…

This bulletin addresses all concerned with examinations for the Certificate of Secondary Education, particularly teachers, with suggestions to improve the efficiency and fairness of examining. The bulletin is divided into two parts: Part I - Examining Techniques: General Principles, covers such major subjects as objectives of the course, analysing…

The construction of an exploratory test dealing with concepts relevant to mathematics was required as part of the New Canadian Study. The test devised for this purpose has three sections dealing with the sorting of objects. In Sort One, 10 lines are sorted into groups of two; in Sort Two, numbers from 1 to 10 are sorted; and, in Sort Three,…

Two factor analytic studies of the Internal-External Control Scale, a forced-choice questionnaire, were carried out. In the first study, separate analyses for samples of male and female college students each yielded the following two factors: (1) generalized personal control, reflecting a belief about ability versus luck as a determinant of…