The development, initial standardization, and substantive data of the University Residence Environment Scales (URES) are presented. (Authors)

A listing of this program which includes illustrative input and output can be obtained by writing either author, Bureau of Educational Research, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas. (Authors)

Author developed an instrument, called the Perceptual Index, which was designed to provide teachers of art with a valid and reliable measure of response to visual stimuli. (Author/MB)

This study offers one bit of evidence that quizzes written to require reasoning are more effective in attaining thinking" objectives than are recall quizzes. (Author)

Study investigated whether the proportion of examinees who answer an item correctly may be influenced by the difficulty of the immediately preceding item. (Authors/MB)

The nature of societal differentiation and the meaning and measurement of educational differentiation are studied. (Editor)

This study investigated the reliability and validity of the Philosophical Belief Inventory (PBI). With the exception of the relationship between idealism and pragmatism and realism and existentialism, the PBI scales appear to be assessing independent facets of belief. (Author)

Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Council on Measurement in Education, Chicago, Illinois, February, 1968.

The Student-Problem (S-P) methodology is described using an example of 24 students on a test of 44 items. Information based on the students' test score and the modified caution index is put to diagnostic use. A modification of the S-P methodology is applied to domain-referenced testing. (Author/CM)

Reliabilities for the Raven Colored Progressive Matrices Test (CPM) are reported for three age groups (ages 5 1/2- 6 1/2, 6 1/2-7 1/2, and 7 1/2-8 1/2 years) and three ethnic groups (Anglo, Black, and Hispanic). Results indicate CPM is not equally reliable for all age groups, but appears equally reliable for the three ethnic groups. (Author)