This study was concerned with the development of a consistent and reliable arithmetic achievement test to assess the arithmetic ability of educable mentally retarded youngsters ranging in age from thirteen through sixteen. The instrument so constructed is intended to be administered individually, and it requires the subject to do little reading or…

Plans are outlined for developing measurement techniques and testing programs to determine the success or failure of the program objectives in the cognitive and attitude areas of the Mountain-Plains program. In the cognitive area a criterion-referenced approach will be used, in spite of problems associated with reliability. Item pools will be…

Easy-Test has been developed to produce computer generated criterion referenced tests on any of 300 subject areas at the secondary level. The tests are drawn from over 14,000 items, can be used for diagnostic purposes, and have been shown to be both valid and reliable. Among limitations of the system are the inclusion of some items not taught in a…

This performance test is comprised of four activities, each with a specific objective(s), process skills, material for each pupil, procedure, and directions to the pupil. The four activity objectives are: I. Describe and classify objects by properties; II. Compare properties of objects to understand serial ordering; III. Describe and classify…

This true-false diagnostic test was used for pretesting of employees at a Veterans Administration Hospital. The test is comprised of 20 items. An alternate test--Classification Questionnaire--was used for testing after remedial training. (For related document, see TM 002 334.) (DB)

The purpose of this study was to explore the possibility of designing an instrument to obtain information about word associations with certain factors held stable. The instrument developed, Words in Pairs, consisted of 20 items, each item containing four words. The first eight items required the subject to pair a noun with another noun of the same…

The differential Value Profile (DVP) was first published in the spring of 1963. The instrument grew out of the author's doctoral dissertation in which he reports its method of construction, some underlying psychological theory, its basic validation attempts, and internal consistency. Since its inception, the DVP has been used in many educational…

This report describes the development of a brief adjective checklist measure of curiosity. This checklist, designed to be used with elementary school children, is empirically-keyed and contains a built in check for rater bias. From an initial pool of 40 adjectives judged relevant to curiosity, a final set of 30 were selected after two item…

The construction, validation, scoring techniques, uses, and constraints of the "I" Scale are presented. The "I" Scale was originally developed to measure the effect of a three district Title III project which sought to raise the level of individualization within the classroom. The paper traces the theoretical stance of…

This bibliography includes papers concerned with using a computer to help construct a list of questions for use as a test or exercise. It is not intended to contain references to papers which deal exclusively with computers administering tests. Sixty-four references are provided. (Author/WH)

Variables that affect the deductive reasoning of adult students are isolated and relevant literature reviewed in order to facilitate the design of a reliable measurement instrument. The relationships of previous instruction, cultural background, occupation, intelligence, sex, and reasoning habits to test scores of examinees are discussed. Studies…

The purpose of this document was to present the development and validation of an instrument to be utilized by local inservice education coordinators in the evaluation of career education inservice training programs. It is proposed that the instrument, the Career Education Concept Inventory (CECI), can be used to provide a measure of understandings…

The present report traces the rationale, development and experimental evaluation of the Diagnostic Discrimination Test (DDT). The DDT is a three-choice test of consonant discriminability of the perceptual/acoustic dimensions of consonant phonemes within specific vowel contexts. The DDT was created and developed in an attempt to provide a…

The purposes of this project were to develop a profile of the individual physician's practice, test the physician in the major areas of his practice, and provide educational consultation according to practice profile and test results. A test bank of 1,800 5-option multiple choice questions was classified into 18 categories based on classification…

The development, refinement, and validation of a test, "The Scientific Attitude Inventory," to be used to assess the scientific attitudes of elementary school teachers is described. The final 70 item instrument was administered to a population of 224 elementary teachers in graduate study at the masters level in one institution. A series of…