The Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children is reviewed with respect to manuals, test construction, and norming procedures; reliability; and validity; evidence administration and scoring procedures; types of scores and interpretative guidelines; and the bias issue. (Author/CL)

A model of examinee behavior was used to generate hypotheses about the operation of true-false scores. Confirmation of hypotheses supported the contention that true-false scores contain an error component that makes these tests less reliable than multiple-choice tests. Examinee response style may invalidate a total true-false score. (Author/DWH)

Various person reliability coefficients, including within- and between-occasion consistency measures, were investigated using the test and retest responses of 123 undergraduates on the Basic Personality Inventory (BPI). Results indicate person reliability may be a multidimensional concept, and that certain item consistency measures are confounded…

Ratings for 550 mentally retarded adolescents on the American Association of Mental Deficiency Adaptive Behavior Scale (ABS) established the reliability and criterion validity of the ABS and demonstrated sensitivity to variation in behavior between subgroups of mentally retarded students representing differences in seven personal variables…

Mentally retarded adult trainees (N=370) at work preparation centers were rated by their supervisors on the Adaptive Behavior Scale (ABS). Results confirmed the reliability and criterion validity of the ABS, demonstrating its sensitivity to differences in adaptive and maladaptive behavior between subgroups representing variation in seven personal…

Performed orthogonal and oblique factor analysis using the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised (WAIS-R) standardization sample (N=1,880). Analysis of the variance components for each subtest at every age level revealed a substantial proportion of subtests at a wide range of age levels evidenced high or intermediate levels of specific…

Discusses the significance of confidence intervals around IQ scores based on a misleading interpretation of the standard error of measurement terms provided in the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised (WAIS-R) manual. Presents standard error values and a table for determining the abnormality of verbal and performance IQ discrepancies.…

Reports on study in which students of Hebrew as a second language took four versions of oral proficiency test. Results indicate that different speech styles and topics significantly affected students' scores, and correlational analyses between pairs pointed to low reliability and lack of stability of the test. Urges caution in making decisions…

This study compares differential relations between unweighted and weighted decision-making scores and selected resource variables. The findings suggest that there are few significant relationships between individual decisions and resource variables. (Author)

This discussion illustrates the application of generalizability theory to a design commonly employed in the collection of evaluation data and provides a detailed analysis of the dependability of student evaluations of college teaching. (RC)

Changes in the full scale reliability of the WISC-R were computed at three age levels when each subtest was omitted by itself. The same procedure was followed with those subtests which independently had the smallest effect in lowering full scale reliability. Cautions were noted concerning the exclusion of subtests. (Author)

Reanalysis of Wakefield and Carlson's data confirmed canonical correlations of .84 and .69, but analysis of redundancies revealed that only 34 percent of the total WISC subtest variance is redundant with the ITPA and 39 percent of the ITPA subtest variance is redundant with the WISC. (Author)

This report describes a reliability and validity study on a learning styles instrument that was developed based on the Dunn, Dunn, & Price model. That model included 104 Likert five-point scale items for investigating 24 scales grouped into five categories considered likely to affect learning. The Learning Style Preference Inventory (LSPI)…

With the rise of violent teenage crime, with an alarming number of child soldiers across the globe, and with the continually increasing number of children and adolescents who are victimized by violence and war, an instrument that measures nonviolent tendencies would be very useful. The Teenage Nonviolence Test (TNT) was recently developed and…