The report describes the intent and accomplishments of a project designed to develop a system for increasing the level of parents' involvement in their handicapped child's education program. To identify factors related to parents' involvement in specific types of parent programs and activities, the Parent Needs Assessment Inventory (PNAI) was…

Research indicates that the transition of children from one educational program to another can be stressful. Two questionnaires, called Transition Planners, were developed to help parents think about and prepare their learning impaired or handicapped children for the transition from preschool to elementary school. Thirty families were targets of…

The development of the Privacy Preference Scale is described. Six subscales were constructed from a principal axis factor analysis. The ability of the subscales to differentiate between age and sex groups, and their relationship to personality measures and to self-reported privacy oriented behavior are presented. (Author/RC)

Explores factor structure of the Personality Research Form (PRF) and examines the inventory's relations with response styles. In general, the PRF content scales correlate moderately with each other and with measures of acquiescence, social desirability, and defensiveness response biases. (Author)

Item statistics between illustrated and written items drawn from the same content areas were compared using F ratios. The results indicated: that illustrated items performed slightly better than matched written items; and that the best performing category of illustrated items was tables. (Author/BB)

The aim of this article is to give some basic information on the IEA survey in science, reading comprehension and literature so that the scene is set for the reader to understand the terminology and procedures reported in the articles which follow. (Author)

The prime contention of this paper is that applied linguists are capable of making a more substantial contribution than they have hitherto to the field of Language Skills Measurement. (Author)

Discusses changes in SVIB. These include: (1) one booklet and one profile form will be used for both sexes; (2) profile scores are organized into Holland's theoretical system; (3) many new occupational scales; (4) M-F scale has been dropped; and (5) all materials have been screened to eliminate subtle sexism. (Author)

Considers some of the problems of the Grasha-Riechmann Student Learning Style Scales and discusses the instrument's usefulness. (RB)

The expected reliability of a multiple choice test is maximized by the use of three alternative items. (Author)

Six in-general samples have been generated to fit different developments of the SVIB, Twenty experimental homogeneous scales were used to measure the similarities and differences among the six in-general samples. Generally, all samples were strikingly similar with the greatest differences appearing between male and female in-general samples.…

Paper presented at the International Seminar on Experimental Research in Music Education (University of Reading, Reading, England, July 9-16, 1968).

Study supported largely by Contract Nonr 228(32) between the Office of Naval Research and the University of Southern California.