TWO HUNDRED QUESTIONNAIRES WERE CIRCULATED IN THE UNITED STATES AND FRANCE IN ORDER TO GATHER OPINIONS ON THE CURRENT PRACTICES AND PROCEDURES OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE TESTING. QUESTIONS ON THE SURVEY ARE RELATED TO THE PREPARATION OF A FINAL EXAMINATION FOR STUDENTS WITH A FLES BACKGROUND WHO ARE COMPLETING THEIR FIRST YEAR OF HIGH SCHOOL FRENCH.…

THE PURPOSE OF THE STUDY WAS TO DEVELOP AN INSTRUMENT FOR MEASURING PROFIT-MAXIMIZING PRINCIPLES IN FARM MANAGEMENT WITH IMPLICATIONS FOR VOCATIONAL AGRICULTURE. PRINCIPLES WERE IDENTIFIED FROM LITERATURE SELECTED BY AGRICULTURAL ECONOMISTS. FORTY-FIVE MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS WERE REFINED ON THE BASIS OF RESULTS OF THREE PRETESTS AND…

Student opinion, with reference to the residence hall counselor's performance, is studied. More specifically, a valid and reliable rating scale for use by students in evaluating their residence hall counselor was developed. In developing an instrument for this purpose, some of the weaknesses of the more common and popular type rating scales such…

The purpose of this research is to build a test for the evaluation of the knowledge needed by medical students before entering clinical courses in medical school. The criterion for this was provided by teachers in both the pre-clinical and clinical subjects. The Pilot instrument consisted of 335 items that covered 8 sections. Each one of these…

Discussed is a procedure being developed for the clinical assessment of children's phonological patterns. Reviewed are recent developments in the psycholinguistic/sociolinguistic literature which support the basic criteria for the new procedure (such as the provision for child phonology rather than adult phonology). The significance of contextual…

Issues relevant to the nature of attitudes are discussed. The reader is referred to works indexing a variety of existent attitude scales. The way in which one constructs, administers, scores, interprets, and presents findings of an original attitude measuring device is discussed comprehensively, and yet in a nontechnical fashion for…

Achievement tests may be either norm-referenced or criterion-referenced. The norm-referenced test indicates an individual's proficiency level with respect to other individuals. A criterion-referenced test measures an individual's performance with respect to a specific level along the continuum of attainment. Further, an achievement test may be…

This collection contains 233 objectives and related evaluation items for mathematics--grades four to six. The following categories are included - (1) sets, (2) numbers, numerals, and numeration systems, (3) operations and their properties, (4) measurement, (5) geometry, (6) relations, functions and graphs, (7) probability and statistics, (8)…

Piaget's conception of cognitive development as the development of a set of skills resulting from interaction with the environment has had a great effect on contemporary educational theory and spurred the Educational Testing Service (ETS) to develop a set of written exercises based on this concept. Piaget's emphasis, however, was on concrete…

The objective of the study was to develop a test which could measure both the qualitative and quantitative aspects of drug-using behavior, including such factors as attitudes toward drugs, experience with drugs, and knowledge about drugs. The Drug Use Scale was developed containing 134 items and dealing with five classes of drugs: marijuana,…

Classical test theory has been rejected for application to criterion-referenced (CR) tests by most psychometricians due to an expected lack of variance in scores and other difficulties. The present study was conceived to resolve the variance problem and explore the possibility that classical test theory is both appropriate and desirable for some…

The major objective of this study was to investigate differential performances among 5-year-old children when using transitivity of matching relations. Instruments were constructed to measure the subjects' (1) knowledge of matching relations, (2) ability to conserve the relations, and (3) proficiency in making inferences using the transitive…

Ten test films were developed to measure aspects of children's visual perception which are difficult to assess through conventional paper and pencil tests. The film medium was selected because it allows the presentation of temporal, as well as spacial, aspects of the stimuli. Four areas of perceptual performance covered in the films are: (1)…

Investigated empirically through post mortem item-examinee sampling were the relative merits of two alternative procedures for allocating items to subtests in multiple matrix sampling and the feasibility of using the jackknife in approximating standard errors of estimate. The results indicate clearly that a partially balanced incomplete block…

The primary objectives of this research program were the development of a battery of tests to investigate the effects of brain impairment on sensory and perceptual functioning. The Sensory-Perceptual Exam (SPE) contains measures intended to evaluate both relatively "pure" sensory functions, as well as those which involve more integrated…