The "Restrictiveness of Living Environment Scale" has long been the primary way to conceptualize the "restrictiveness" of a child's living situation. However, changes in systems of care and other factors have created a need to revisit how restrictiveness is conceptualized and measured. A measure was created to assess an environment's level of…

The CEPA-English test is used for achievement, selection, and placement purposes. Since this test has heavily influences student's academic futures, it is imperative to ensure that the test functions as intended and provides meaningful results. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine the technical quality of the CEPA-English test in…

Using a diverse sample of university students, this article describes outcomes of a confirmatory factor analysis and a group invariance analysis conducted to validate the factorial structure of the Sense of Belonging Scales. Accordingly, a modified factor structure departing significantly from that of the original authors is proposed. (Contains 5…

Author explained what the quotient in IQ stands for, whether the IQ changes, how to relate IQ to other factors, and its future in measuring human intelligence and personality development. (RK)

A Monte Carlo technique was employed in order to compare the relative power and robustness of the Bartlett, Cochran, Hartley, and Levene tests for homogeniety of variance. (Editor)

It is proposed that the reliability of criterion-referenced test scores be defined in terms of the consistency of the decision-making process across repeated administrations of the test. (Author/RC)

A generalization of the G index of agreement is presented, allowing for its application in multiple ratings. The generalized coefficient is intended for use in the psychiatric clinic. An illustrative example is provided, using hypothetical data. (Author)

Rigorous comparison of the reliability coefficients of several tests or measurement procedures requires a sampling theory for the coefficients. This paper summarizes the important aspects of the sampling theory for Cronbach's (1951) coefficient alpha--a widely used internal consistency coefficient. This theory enables researchers to test a…

The kappamax reliability index of domain-referenced tests is defined as the upper bound of kappa when all possibile cutoff scores are considered. Computational procedures for kappamax are described, as well as its approximation for long tests, based on Kuder-Richardson formula 21. The sampling error of kappamax, and the effects of test length and…

Use of Tukey's Jackknife in establishing a confidence interval around the population coefficient alpha is explored and the robustness of Feldt's procedure along with ten variants of the Jackknife when the data do not conform to the necessary normality requirements are evaluated. Only two of the variants compared to Feldt's approach. (RC)

Shows that the Harris factors of R have psychometric properties similar to those discussed by Kaiser and Caffrey (1965) and Bentler (1968). Specifically it is shown that the Harris factors of R maximize a lower-bound to the reliability of a composite measure derived by Guttman (1945). (Author/RC)