Examines the content and construct validity of the Barth Scale. Latent partition analysis generated item content categories for judgmental data gathered from open education experts; factor analysis described constructs generated from response data gathered from open and traditional elementary school teachers. (RC)

Assessed the validity of reports on family social status by comparing responses of co-twins. Co-twin agreement on factual items about their family is a particularly good criterion for evaluating the validity of a socioeconomic status measure. (RC)

Explores the usefulness of a short version of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (Mini-Mult) in a university counseling center as well as determines whether earlier results of investigations of the Mini-Mult could be replicated with a sample of college males and females demonstrating no gross abnormalities. (RC)

Extrapolated IQs for the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R) are presented for sums of scaled scores that are both below and above the values published in Wechsler's WISC-R manual. The regression equations on which these extrapolations are based and cautions regarding the clinical use of these IQs are also presented. (Author)

The equivalency of speech intelligibility scores obtained with the 10 individual lists within each of the Central Institute for the Deaf (CID) and the Revised CID (R-CID) Sentence Lists was investigated with 60 normal-hearing subjects. (Author)

Measurement problems which jeopardize the reliability and validity of competency-based writing assessments are analyzed. Methods to stabilize rating criteria and readers' application of them are necessary. Most writing assessment programs use guidelines from norm-referenced test methodology. Use of this method of criteria application based on…

All published empirical studies of the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory (SCII), 1974 thru 1980, are reviewed. While only a few predictive validity studies have been completed, concurrent and construct validity studies are consistently supportive of the validity of the General Occupational Themes, Basic Interest Scales and Occupational Scales.…

An upper-asymptote parameter was added to the three-parameter logistic item response model. This four-parameter model was compared to the three-parameter model on four data sets. The fourth parameter increased the likelihood in only two of the four sets. Ability estimates for the students were generally unchanged by the introduction of the fourth…

Wilcox (1977) examines two methods of estimating the probability of a false-positive on false-negative decision with a mastery test. Both procedures make assumptions about the form of the true score distribution which might not give good results in all situations. In this paper, upper and lower bounds on the two possible error types are described…

A study was conducted to obtain information about the extent of consumer knowledge of the medical care delivery system and to derive a scale to measure it. A 10-item questionnaire was administered to 4976 persons aged 14-66 in Ohio, Massachusetts, South Carolina, and Washington to measure their consumer sophistication. Some items assessed extent…

The purpose of the study was to assess the reliability and the validity of the Ski Hi Language Development Scale which was designed to determine the receptive and the expressive language levels of hearing impaired children from birth to age 5. The reliability of the instrument was estimated through: (1) internal consistency, (2) inter-rater…