Compared the test scores of high and low anxious subjects when the Wechsler Adult Intelligence scale was administered by a trained examiner or mechanically. Findings indicated that performance was influenced by test administration procedures. There was a trend to score higher on the test given by an examiner. (Author/JAC)

Spatial span (Corsi's block tapping) and verbal span (Wechsler Digits Forward) were measured in 1113 children (ages 4-10) from urban and rural districts of Italy. The urban group performed significantly better on both tests. Sex differences, favoring boys, were found only on the spatial span test. (Author/SJL)

Comparing alcoholic and normal families indicated that alcoholic families perceived a higher level of conflict and a less cohesive family environment. In alcoholic families less emphasis was placed on independence, cultural and recreational activities, and organizational tasks. Results confirm speculation regarding the types of family dimensions…

The California Psychological Inventory was administered to male engineers, engineering-trained managers, and non-engineering-trained managers. Engineering managers share with other managers a preference for leadership roles but their elevation on psychological mindedness shows a more pragmatic analytical and less intuitive approach to management…

Findings indicated that the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test and the Revised Beta Examination should be administered as part of a battery to disabled students in special education rehabilitation units. It was concluded that this procedure would be more economical than administering the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale. (Author/DB)

The adaptive behaviors measured by Part I of the Adaptive Behavior Scale (ABS) showed relatively large associations with IQ. In contrast, Part II domains, which deal primarily with conduct disorders, showed low to negligible associations with IQ. (Author)

The Piers-Harris Children's Self-concept Scale was administered to 224 third- and fourth-grade boys, before and after five weeks of participation or nonparticipation in recreation-league team sports. Pretest scores indicated significant differences in favor of participants, while posttest scores showed no significant differences resulting from the…

Ninety-two seventh grade students were assigned to three testing contingencies; no retesting, optional retesting, and mastery retesting. They were compared for achievement, anxiety and attitude. Optional retesting and mastery retesting were found better for achievement, optional retesting better for attitude, and no treatment difference related to…

Can real comparability of examination standards be attained between different boards and different years? Argues that the attempt has to be made. (Editor)

To determine if known-item searching was possible with four of the Web's most popular search engines (Alta Vista, Excite, Infoseek Guide, and Lycos A2Z), searches for 39 known Web sites were performed. The search engines were then ranked according to retrieval of relevant and exact matches and the order in which the search results appeared. (PEN)

Forty-six full-term and 54 high-risk preterm infants were tested at six, seven, and/or eight months of age (corrected age for preterms) on assessments of visual recognition memory and tactual-visual cross-modal transfer. Scores significantly predicted Stanford-Binet IQ scores. Stability coefficients attained the highest degree of predictive…

A subscale of the Three-Factor Eating Questionnaire (TFEQ), a subscale of the Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire, and the Revised Restraint Scale were compared with 901 undergraduates. The TFEQ had the greatest discriminant validity with respect to social desirability and was the least susceptible to dissimulation. (SLD)

Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence-Revised and Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Revised were administered to 51 preschool, kindergarten, first and second grade students. Although two of four Pearson correlations between these two instruments were statistically significant, they may not be of practical importance. (Author)

Compared two procedures for establishing and reversing stimulus control transfer across simple discrimination in children. Results indicated that both procedures were more effective in establishing that, in reversing stimulus control transfer, stimulus contiguity was more effective than match-to-sample training; and both procedures were more…

A Monte Carlo study, which simulated 10,000 examinees' responses to four tests, investigated the effect of item stratification on parameter estimation in multiple matrix sampling of achievement data. Practical multiple matrix sampling is based on item stratification by item discrimination and a sampling plan with moderate number of subtests. (SLD)