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Cognitive Processing Determinants of Item Difficulty on the Verbal Subtests of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery.

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Mitchell, Karen Janice – 1983

A model of verbal performance was developed which defined cognitive processes thought to underlie performance on the Word Knowledge and Paragraph Comprehension subtests of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB). The items from two forms of these ASVAB verbal subtests were rated on five conceptualized cognitive storage processes:…

Descriptors: Adults, Aptitude Tests, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level

Development and Internal-Structure Analysis of a New Pitch Discrimination Test, Worksample 740 A. Technical Report 1990-1.

Veccia, Ellen M.; Schroeder, David H. – 1990

As a measure of musical aptitude, a new 90-item Pitch Discrimination Test was developed, and its internal structure was examined. Each of the three sections of the test measures an individual's aptitude for pitch discrimination in a different frequency range using square-wave tones generated by a personal computer. A total of 1,303 examinees,…

Descriptors: Ability Identification, Adults, Aptitude Tests, Auditory Discrimination