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Peer reviewedStricker, Lawrence J. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1974
Explores factor structure of the Personality Research Form (PRF) and examines the inventory's relations with response styles. In general, the PRF content scales correlate moderately with each other and with measures of acquiescence, social desirability, and defensiveness response biases. (Author)
Descriptors: Evaluation, Personality Measures, Psychological Testing, Research Projects
Download full textEvans, Ellis D. – 1973
This overview of measurement practices in early childhood education discusses some of the basic issues and concerns of both researchers and practitioners. Although techniques for the measurement of young children's behavior received primary attention, procedures for measuring parent and teacher behavior are also discussed. Trends in measurement…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Early Childhood Education, Ethics, Evaluation
Peer reviewedBersoff, Donald N. – American Psychologist, 1973
Describes a framework for assessment within which direct, continuous, naturalistic observation of behavior provides many of the advantages one seeks in evaluation. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Educational Diagnosis, Evaluation, Observation
Peer reviewedEdinger, Jack D.; Norwood, Peggy E. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1975
Investigated the efficacy of various WAIS short forms among outpatients. Results favor Pauker's (1963) short form but also show a decrease in correspondence between short-form and Full Scale scores when the short forms are administered separately. (Author/EJT)
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Evaluation, Intelligence Differences, Intelligence Tests
Wand, Barbara – School Guidance Worker, 1978
This research discusses the dilemma of who should use educational and psychological tests. It is suggested that educational and social institutions moniter the use of testing in their areas. Public awareness of testing is increasing and critical. (MFD)
Descriptors: Educational Testing, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation, Foreign Countries
Dyer, Henry S. – 1969
Certain concepts that are sometimes confused in discussions on testing socially disadvantaged children are clarified and a history of testing, beginning with Binet, is presented. Finally, five problems in using tests to evaluate educational programs for the disadvantaged are considered. (AG)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Cognitive Development, Cultural Differences, Disadvantaged
Tobias, Sigmund; Hedl, John J., Jr. – 1972
This paper reports two experiments whose purpose was to relate two bodies of research on anxiety: test and trait-state anxiety. It was reasoned that state anxiety measures obtained in an evaluation testing condition should be more similar to test anxiety than state anxiety measures obtained in non-evaluative situations, such as a game in Study I…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavioral Science Research, College Students, Educational Testing
Kane, Robert B. – 1968
An experimental study examined the possibility that proximity error could bias results from semantic differential questionnaires. Proximity error occurs when, due to the ordering, or polarity, of the differential scales, one answer on the semantic differential results in another answer to a subsequent question being substantially changed from what…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Factor Analysis, Item Analysis, Psychological Testing
