The Mann-Whitney U Test provides an alternative to the parametric test when applied to the kinds of ordinal data typically generated by semantic differential and Likert-type scales. The application of this test to survey research problems in business education is discussed, and a computer program is given for the use by the business education…

Provides teachers with information relating to the technical aspects of test development within various content realms of the social studies. The author explains how tests can be employed to guide the direction of investigation as well as for diagnostic and evaluative purposes. (DB)

This paper demonstrates the application of common statistical methods to evaluate the dimensionality, reliability, generalizability, and potential biasing factors of the student assessment of instruction (SAI) instrument used at Florida Atlantic University. Findings indicated: (1) factor analysis uncovered just two factors, one describing…

The "CSE Program Evaluation Kit" is a series of nine books intended to assist people conducting program evaluations. This volume, the seventh in the kit, provides an overview of a variety of approaches to measuring performance outcomes. It presents considerations in deciding what to measure and in selecting or developing instruments best suited to…

The purpose of the study was to report normative AEL CSIQ ("AEL Continuous School Improvement Questionnaire") data for the total of 132 schools who had completed it by 2002. The normative data were developed and reported by type (level) of school, locale type (Johnson) codes, and schools nominated to be high performing learning communities. This…

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)