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Download full textManpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. U.S. Training and Employment Service. – 1970
The United States Training and Employment Service General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB), first published in 1947, has been included in a continuing program of research to validate the tests against success in many different occupations. The GATB consists of 12 tests which measure nine aptitudes: General Learning Ability; Verbal Aptitude; Numerical…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Career Guidance, Cutting Scores, Engineering
Manpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. U.S. Training and Employment Service. – 1966
The United States Training and Employment Service General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB), first published in 1947, has been included in a continuing program of research to validate the tests against success in many different occupations. The GATB consists of 12 tests which measure nine aptitudes: General Learning Ability; Verbal Aptitude; Numerical…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Career Guidance, Cutting Scores, Evaluation Criteria
Manpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. U.S. Training and Employment Service. – 1962
The United States Training and Employment Service General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB), first published in 1947, has been included in a continuing program of research to validate the tests against success in many different occupations. The GATB consists of 12 tests which measure nine aptitudes: General Learning Ability; Verbal Aptitude; Numerical…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Career Guidance, Cutting Scores, Evaluation Criteria
Wright, E.N.; Wyman, W.C. – 1974
This paper is part 3 of Research Department Report Number 123, "Exploring the T.R.Q.: An Assessment of the Effectiveness of the Teachers' Rating Questionnaire," which gave questionnaire users information necessary to tailor the instrument to their own needs. Retention of TRQ questions which generated good distributions of teacher ratings…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Communication Skills, Creativity, Elementary Education
Wyman, W.C.; Wright, E.N. – 1974
This report assesses the validity, reliability, and efficiency of the Teachers' Rating Questionnaire (TRQ), a pupils' school success measure developed in connection with a 1961 longitudinal Study of Achievement. TRQ ratings on nearly 14,000 pupils, gathered in the Study of Achievement and a New Canadian Report, constituted the data source.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Correlation, Elementary Education, Predictive Measurement
Simon, Alan J.; Joiner, Lee M. – 1974
The effectiveness of test adaptation based on item selection and reordering of a Spanish (Mexican) version of the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) was examined. Translated forms were administered to a sample of Mexican students. One item from each pair (A and B) was selected and reordered using a priori rules. The revised instrument was…
Descriptors: Culture Fair Tests, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Intelligence Tests
Smith, John E.; And Others
The purpose of this study was to construct and validate a self-rating scale which can be easily administered and quickly scored for discriminating between those high school students who will dropout and those who will not. A 34-item scale was constructed for subjects with a fifth grade reading level. This scale was administered to 113 high school…
Descriptors: Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Research, Dropouts, High School Students
Spaulding, Robert L. – 1969
In studies of classroom behavior modification, the experimenter or educator attempts to make valid judgments about desirable behavioral outcomes. Instruments of assessment to be used with behavior modification treatments must be sensitive to the behavioral goals of principals, teachers, and public school officials. Moreover the treatments used in…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Behavior Rating Scales, Behavioral Objectives
Shames, George H.; And Others – 1968
Mothers of cleft and noncleft palate children (C- and non C-mothers) listened to a reading by a cleft palate child of a passage containing specified combinations of nasality and intelligibility. Groups were either uninstructed or instructed to listed to the content or the manner of speech; they assessed the nasality and intelligibility of the…
Descriptors: Cleft Palate, Exceptional Child Research, Family Relationship, Listening Comprehension
Gallaudet Coll., Washington, DC. Office of Demographic Studies. – 1969
The objectives of the annual survey of hearing impaired children and youth which are presented are to collect, process, and disseminate statistical information on characteristics of all hearing impaired individuals through college age. One aspect of this work is described through results of the administration of the Stanford Achievement Tests…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Age Differences, Deafness
Potter, Thomas C. – 1968
An overall look is taken at the cloze research method as a new tool for measuring readability. The construction of a cloze readability test is described as well as several studies made on the reliability and validity of such tests. Included also are some methodological considerations to be kept in mind when constructing a cloze test. Data is…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Evaluation Methods, Language Research, Measurement Techniques
Montgomery County Public Schools, Rockville, MD. – 1968
This report describes Head Start classroom activity, contains data on the children from a testing program, and includes teacher ratings of pupils on a Classroom Adjustment Checklist. (Individual data is being preserved for follow-up studies.) Classroom observations were made in 13 of 27 Head Start classrooms, while testing activities and teacher…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Classroom Environment, Classroom Observation Techniques, Compensatory Education
Greene, John F.; Zirkel, Perry A. – 1973
The purpose of this study was to determine the reliability of the Tri-Cultural Attitude Scale (TAS). Based on the results of a sample of 336 Puerto Rican, Black-American and Anglo-American elementary school pupils in a large Connecticut city, the authors found generally significant relationships between the TAS and various criterion measures.…
Descriptors: American Culture, Attitude Measures, Black Culture, Cultural Awareness
A Methodological Investigation of the Development of a Semantic Differential to Assess Self-Concept.
Yonker, Robert J.; And Others – 1974
This study developed a semantic differential (SD) instrument to measure self-concept that was not influenced by social desirability. An alpha factor analysis of 53 SD scales produced five interpretable factors for the females and five interpretable factors for the males. A subsequent investigation of the convergent validity of each of the factors…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Factor Structure, Grade 10, High School Students
Gray, Jerry L. – 1974
The purposes of this study were to investigate (1) the consistency among fifth-grade children in conceptual style across different conceptual style instruments and (2) the generalizability of conceptual style behavior to school related tasks when stability and instability of children's conceptual style were taken into consideration. Children…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Style
