In response to the pressing needs to develop a culture-fair, nonverbal readiness test for rural and urban disadvantaged preschool children, a special project was undertaken. PREP kit no. 22 was adapted from the final report of a project conducted by Dr. Wanda Walker, Northwest Missouri State College, Maryville, and supported by the Office of…

A program involving instruction in library skills, reading skills, and study skills is described. High school graduates, rated as underachievers, took a 3-week skills instruction course, followed by regular summer session college work, as a means of preparing themselves for college. Counseling was provided in individual and group sessions. When…

External testing (public tests) is examined from a British point of view by George Cameron Allen and then responded to by an American. Allen discusses the history of external examinations in Britain, paying particular attention to the General Certificate of Education (GCE) examinations and the dichotomy that exists between language and literature…

This document contains a listing of tests which can be used in bilingual bicultural education projects. The evaluation instruments are listed alphabetically and are annotated. Included in the description of each test is information about: title, acronym, author, publisher, source, date, pages, price, age, grade, time, language, group or…

Mention is made of some of the more significant of relatively few attempts to use computers in British education. A computer-assisted instruction project at the University of Leeds is briefly described and projects at three other universities and in secondary schools are noted. The dearth of computer applications in counseling is cited, and the…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the correlation between gain on the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test (S-B) in compensatory prekindergarten programs, and scores on the New York State Pupil Evaluation Program (PEP), Reading Section, over three years later. Four hundred and five subjects showed a correlation of 0.42 for the pre-post S-B…

This report contains replies to questionnaires sent to State legislatures, legislative service agencies, State school boards associations, and State offices of the NEA and the AFT asking for information on legislation and achievements in education. Information from the replies is supplemented by data acquired from reviews of newsletters,…

This study was conducted to find out whether extending the kindergarten day with individualized curricula would produce differences in achievement great enough to warrant the increased cost. Two pilot studies were conducted in this large suburban school district, using kindergartens from four of 17 elementary schools. Two of the schools served…

It is axiomatic that an evaluation demands a statement of goal, for without a goal there can be no judgment of progress or success. Goal statements spring from two major sources: experience or theory. One source has its foundation in the present. The other has its genesis in the envisioned future. The former is generally a comparison with the…

To find an acceptable way of reducing testing time without altering the administrative use of admissions tests, a study was conducted to test the prediction that scores on subtests of the General Achievement Tests (GAT) in Social Studies, Natural Sciences, and Mathematics could be used to predict the total test score. All answer sheets for 1000…

A collection is presented containing four papers dealing with the subject of criterion-referenced testing. This first paper deals with criterion-referenced tests utilizing norm-referenced test items. Aspects covered include a defense of norm-referenced and criterion referenced tests and a justification for the adaptation of norm-referenced test…

The administration of the National Test-Equating Study in Reading is described as part of a symposium on the study. After contacts with each of the State Departments of Education, district and LEA superintendents were asked to consider the participation of randomly selected schools within their jurisdictions. Upon receipt of approval, school…

The objective of this study was to conduct an intensive investigation of the relationship between Lorge Thorndike IQ subtest and Torrance creativity subtest scores. Ss were 154 twelfth graders. First order partial correlations were about .50 between different sets of creativity subtests with different IQ subtests partialled out. Canonical…

In accordance with the normal replacement cycle, a new form of the Air Force Officer Qualifying Test (AFOQT) was developed for implementation in Fiscal Year 1972. The new form is designated Form L. It resembles other recent forms in type of content, organization, and norming strategy. Like other forms, it yields pilot, navagation-technical,…

Five three-variable combinations were obtained from a variety of standardized test scores of 331 male children. These five groups were treated as unrestricted populations of the case III variety. Extreme univariate selection was produced in each group allowing for tests of differences between the correlation values of the two incidental variables…