Describes the development of two forms of the Checklist for Assessment of Science Teachers and their application to preservice teachers. Reveals that differences in classroom activities and student-teacher relationships are found between the treatment and nontreatment teacher groups, but not in teacher personal adjustment. (CC)

A group of 44 undergraduates was administered the Personal Orientation Inventory under different instructions to fake good'' toward two expectations. Results indicated that scores were significantly affected in the hypothesized directions. Earlier findings about the effect of dissimulation on PO1 scores were equivocal and conclusions expressed…

Discusses the role of examinations in science education and questions the nature of many of the assumptions that underlie examination reform in Britain. (JR)

Scores on the Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory of 44 behaviorally disturbed boys ranging in age from 8 to 12 years were compared with the test's norms, with later retest scores, with teacher assigned self esteem ranks, and with peer group status as measured by sociometric procedures. (DB)

An address to the ADE in New York, 26 December 1972. (RB)

Purpose of this study was to examine the effect of using separate, machine scorable answer sheets on the number of marking errors made by third-, fourth-, and sixth-grade students. (Authors)

The Psychological Growth Index, a true-false questionnaire of 140 items, has been administered to 7,500 individuals in the 14 to 22 age group to distinguish psychologically mature adolescents from less-fully mature peers. Author claims after careful statistical scrutiny instrument remains clinically valid. (DS)

Retired vice-president of Educational Testing Service asserts that chances for tests being misused are greater than ever. Speech delivered at ETS's Invitational Conference on Testing Problems on October 28, 1972, in New York, New York. (DS)

The general problem of using group status to estimate true scores given multiple measures is considered in this paper. (Authors)

Purpose of this investigation is to develop a method of measuring tactile sensation regarding the texture, size, and shape of objects (stereognosis) in the hand of normal two- to four-year-old children. (Author)

Gumpgookies is an objective-projective test of motivation to achieve in school, intended for children in an age range of three and a half to eight or possibly nine. (Authors)