This study provides an independent assessment of the reliability, validity, and design of the Defining Issues Test. (Author/SB)

An investigation of the reliability and validity of the Health-Related Physical Fitness Test found the instrument to be highly reliable for the 11- through 14-year-olds who served as subjects. (Author/CB)

Conducted four studies to develop Adolescent Perceived Events Scale (APES), measure of major and daily stressful events during adolescence. Describes test construction, test-retest reliability, and concurrent validity of APES. Summarizes subsequent research showing APES to be significantly related to behavior problems and psychological…

Twenty normal-hearing, sighted subjects (ages 20-42) viewed soundless videotapes of a speaker reading lists from the two forms of the Utley Lipreading Test and three from Harris' revised Central Institute for the Deaf (CID) Everyday Sentences. Results do not support the interchange of Utley and CID sentences for test-retest comparisons of…

Implemented a method of abbreviating the Category Test of the Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Test Battery. The revision shortened the scales and reorganized Subtests 5 and 6 into two new scales using separate principles. Demonstrated it to be as accurate as the full test in predicting the presence or absence of brain damage in subjects.…

Three experienced neuropsychologists rated brain damaged and control subjects for brain damage using the Halstead-Reitan Battery and the Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery. Using either battery, raters were accurate in judging the presence of brain damage. There was a high degree of consistency between raters and test batteries when both…

Compared Kennedy and Elder's (1982) Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (Revised) regression model with Kaufman's (1976) linear equating model. Both the Kennedy and Elder, and the Kaufman abbreviated forms attained a high degree of association, suggesting that both models are equally effective. (Author/BL)

An example demonstrates and explains that summary statistics commonly used to measure test quality can be seriously misleading and that summary statistics for the whole test are not sufficient for judging the quality of the test. (Author/LMO)

Describes the development of a highly reliable 28-item scale to measure rapport between college roommates. This instrument should be useful in both research and practice. (Author/BL)

Describes reliability and validity data for the Sexual Experiences Survey, a self-report instrument designed to identify hidden rape victims and undetected offenders among a normal population. (Author/BH)

Reports reliability and validity data on the Unpleasant Events Schedule, a measure of frequency and aversiveness of stressful life events during one month. Nine rational, empirical, and factorial scales were developed and were retained as mutually independent, internally reliable, and tapping dimensions of clinical interest. (NRB)

Describes the role of information on score reliabilities, significance of score differences, intercorrelations of scores, and differential validity of score patterns on the interpretation of results from multiscore batteries. (Author)

Responses of 584 high IQ children to the Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale were submitted to a factor analysis. The five factors that emerged were highly similar to factors found with the normative sample. Reliability estimates for each age group on three subscales of anxiety and for the total scale support its clinical and research use.…

The paper describes the Children's Interaction Schedule (CIS), an observation schedule designed to measure children's skills or processes in interacting with peers. There are nine categories of interactive behavior on which the CIS is based. The effectivness of the instrument in a field situation, using an interval-recording technique of behavior…

The internal consistency of the short-form of the Questionnaire on Resources and Stress was examined with 189 parents of handicapped and nonhandicapped children. Reliability and factor analysis procedures revealed psychometric weaknesses across scales. Positive outcomes were discussed regarding the clinical value of the instrument. (Author/DB)