This study is an examination of the scores obtained on the Miller Analogies Test for students classified as either Anglos or Mexican Americans, and also the relationship between these scores and the first semester GPA in graduate school for both groups. (Author)

Summarizes the latest developments in the field of testing from the manpower point of view. Manpower Research Visibility is a supplement to American Vocational Journal. (Author/SB)

This articles points out the main dimensions of four problem areas encountered by persons engaged in evaluation of educational programs: the politics of educational evaluation, the conflict between behavioral objectives and humanistic concerns in education, the distinction between research and evaluation, and the use of standardized tests in…

Describes the rationale for the use of process measures and gives some illustrations of their use. (GR)

The focus of this study is on the need for demographic data about the process of research, development, and dissemination training within the field of education. (RB)

Results indicate that many Mexican American pupils may have been placed in classes for the mentally retarded solely on the basis of performance on an IQ test which was invalid for Spanish-speakers. (AL)

The research involved construction of appropriate nonreading tests designed to measure the aptitudes underlying the GATB, a study of the interrelationships of the experimental nonreading tests and the GATB for a sample of high school seniors. (Author)

A method for obtaining criterion-references information from standardized tests is proposed. (TA)

Seven factors were found as the result of the factor analysis. No factor had a sufficient number of high loadings to justify interpretation as g", a general intelligence factor. The results of this study were compared with the logical analysis of Meeker & Bonsall based upon Guilford's factors of the intellect, and with Valett's profile analysis.…

Percentile scores appear to be the easiest standardized test scores for parents to understand. Yet in this true-false test, Hills reveals commonly held misconceptions about percentile score reports. (LC)

Methodology texts argue and many researchers may believe that normality of distribution is a sufficient condition for inferring that interval scale measurement has been achieved. It has also been argued that ordinal measurements cannot be normally distributed. Counter examples and a general result show such reasoning to be fallacious. (Author/RH)

Secondary schools have been made the scapegoat for the decline in students' Scholastic Achievement Test (SAT) scores. The responsibility rests on colleges and universities to upgrade their admission standards. (MLF)