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Download full textMartens, Kay, Ed. – 1976
Between 1974 and 1976 the Two-Year College Development Center conducted a project to provide cognitive style information to faculty, counselors, and administrators at 21 two-year colleges in New York through a series of seminars and workshops. During 1976, the project focused on four questions identified as crucial to the application of cognitive…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Choice, Cognitive Style, Community Colleges
Bedal, C. L., Ed.; Morris, Joan, Ed. – School Guidance Worker, 1981
Describes testing programs in Canada and suggests cautions to be used in psychological and diagnostic testing. Also discusses the use of standardized tests, computers, test validity and effectiveness, and parent attitudes. The demands of accountability and better management require counselor attention to testing and guidance. (JAC)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Peer reviewedPyburn, Keith M., Jr. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1990
Discrepancies between court and professional association views of licensing examinations are discussed. Litigation associated with Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and constitutional law is considered. Courts should examine professional standards and apply those that are consistent with the court's determination of the proper…
Descriptors: Civil Rights Legislation, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Court Role
Kendall, Ian M. – Psychological Test Bulletin, 1991
A survey identified 352 psychological tests that are used in Australia but produced in other countries. About 89 percent have been standardized for use in Australia, but no local data have been compiled for some high-use tests. Responsibilities of test distributors and users are discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Evaluation Utilization, Foreign Countries, International Studies, Local Norms
Levinson, Edward M. – 1993
This volume on vocational assessment is written from an educational and psychological perspective and includes descriptions of program models appropriate for implementation within school settings. The book focuses on cooperation among a variety of school-based professionals; incorporates the roles of community-based professionals and parents; and…
Descriptors: Career Development, Diagnostic Tests, Disabilities, Evaluation Methods
Byrne, Barbara M. – 1991
The factorial validity of the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) was studied for 2,931 Canadian teachers (48.2% males and 51.8% females) as a single professional group and for subsamples of this group (1,159 elementary school teachers, 388 intermediate school teachers, and 1,384 secondary school teachers). Study participants were full-time teachers…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Factor Structure, Foreign Countries
International Personnel Management Association, Washington, DC. – 1988
Author-generated summaries/outlines of papers presented at the annual conference of the International Personnel Management Association Assessment Council (IPMAAC) in 1988 are provided. The "Presidential Address" is by N. E. Abrams. The keynote address is "Is There a Future for Intelligence?" by R. Thorndike. Summaries of 53…
Descriptors: Assessment Centers (Personnel), Computer Assisted Testing, Evaluation Methods, Job Analysis
Jarrell, Michele G.; Burry, Judith A. – 1989
The Coping Strategies Inventory for Statistics (CSIS) is designed to identify beginning statistics students with non-facilitative test-taking and study-coping skills. The self-administered CSIS consists of directions followed by two scenarios. The student reads each scenario, decides how he or she would react to the situation, and rates each of…
Descriptors: Coping, Higher Education, Introductory Courses, Likert Scales
Hunter, John E. – 1983
This paper reviews the now massive general literature showing that psychological tests are fair to minorities. This literature shows that there is no single group validity, there is no differential validity, and tests overpredict rather than underpredict minority job performance. Further evidence in regard to blacks is introduced from 51…
Descriptors: Adults, American Indians, Aptitude Tests, Asian Americans
TRIMBLE, W.E.; UNTERSEHER, RICHARD – 1967
A STRUCTURED PHYSICAL EDUCATION PROGRAM CONSISTING MOSTLY OF BODY BUILDING EXERCISES AND WEIGHT LIFTING WAS USED TO GIVE PHYSICALLY UNDERDEVELOPED BOYS A SENSE OF PERSONAL ACCOMPLISHMENT. JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL BOYS FROM GRADES SEVEN, EIGHT, AND NINE, CLASSIFIED ON THE BASIS OF LACK OF ATHLETIC ABILITY, WERE GIVEN THE CALIFORNIA PSYCHOLOGICAL…
Descriptors: Athletics, Control Groups, Discriminant Analysis, Junior High School Students
Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. – 1949
The conference panels were organized around three topics: (1) influences of cultural background on test performance; (2) uses and limitations of factor analysis in psychological research; and (3) information which should be provided by test publishers and testing agencies on the validity and use of their tests. Panelists for the first session…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Conference Reports, Cultural Influences
Connecticut State Dept. of Education, Hartford. – 1968
The "Greater Opportunity Program", funded by ESEA Title III, has provided academic instruction, cultural stimulation, and supportive counseling to 100 underachieving disadvantaged Hartford boys about to enter high school. The resident program has been conducted at the Hotchkiss School using the independent school's staff for 7-week…
Descriptors: College Preparation, Cultural Enrichment, Disadvantaged Youth, English Instruction
Stafford, Richard E. – 1963
This study on psychological traits examines three hypotheses: (1) there is a similarity between parents and their children unexplained by a similarity between the parents, (2) this similarity may be explained by hereditary components, and (3) these hereditary components are of the discrete or segregated type of inheritance. There were 104 families…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Arithmetic, Association (Psychology), Auditory Discrimination
American Organization for Education of the Hearing Impaired, Washington, DC. – 1968
Prepared by two committees of the American Organization for Education of the Hearing Impaired, the pamphlet provides a guide for formulating standards of professional training for teachers of hearing impaired children. Competencies needed by teachers of the deaf are defined in the areas of communication (speech, hearing, language, lipreading,…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Curriculum, Deafness, Exceptional Child Education
Borich, Gary D.; And Others – 1976
The computer programs described in this manual were designed for the analysis of data resulting from psychological experiments which hypothesize an aptitude- or trait-treatment interaction (ATI). The programs were written in Fortran IV for use on most CDC 6400/6600 and IBM 360 computer systems. Research designs to which the programs are applicable…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Computer Programs, Educational Psychology
