Defends the National Association of Secondary School Principals volume "Guidelines for Improving SAT Scores" against criticism offered in the immediately preceding article. (IRT)

Scores from the Scholastic Aptitude Test and a new test of reading and writing, the California State University and Colleges English Placement Test, were examined to determine if unique properties for either test could be found. Both tests seem to be measuring the same underlying ability with few unique properties. (Author)

Outlines an 11-point system that includes academic competition within the schools, voluntary review programs, and a program of studies that is at the heart of the total curriculum. (Author/IRT)

Teachers concerned about excessive testing may be depriving themselves of useful information provided by standardized achievement tests and their own exams. Teachers tend to separate testing from teaching. This article explores the relationship among data collection, curriculum planning, and instruction and gauges the impacts of mandated…

Responds to the Nader report on the Educational Testing Service authored by Nairn. Major themes of the nine chapters of the report are addressed. The last sections provide comment on the responses of the Educational Testing Service. (RC)

This study examined pre-college variables from an admission-office perspective and the ability of these variables to predict college grade point average (GPA) for students specially admitted into an academic support program for at-risk students. The research was conducted at a private, highly-selective, research university in the southwest United…

THE STANDARDIZED INSTRUCTIONS IN THIS MANUAL ARE FOR ADMINISTERING THE TEST BATTERY USED WITH THE RESEARCH PROJECT "DEVELOPMENT OF A CURRICULUM AND MATERIALS FOR TEACHING BASIC VOCATIONAL TALENTS," (VT 004 454). THIS TEST BATTERY WAS ADAPTED FROM THE TEST BATTERY DEVELOPED BY THE STAFF OF PROJECT TALENT UNDER THREE SEPARATE CONTRACTS…

A brief, nontechnical state-of-the-art review of four common instruments and current practices in the field of scholastic aptitude testing is presented. The instruments include: the 1971 Cognitive Abilities Test (CAT), 1973 Henmon-Nelson Tests of Mental Ability (H-NTMA), 1979 Otis-Lennon School Ability Test (OLSAT) and the 1970 Short Form Test of…

Grade reports of Southeastern Louisiana University from 1970-71 through 1978-79 were examined to determine whether grade inflation occurred in relation to scores on the American College Testing (ACT) program. Both ACT and Scholastic Aptitude Test scores have been declining nationally, while university registrars report that student grades at the A…

The Toledo Chemistry Placement Examination was administered to the 163 students enrolling in general inorganic chemistry during the academic year 1967-68 in an effort to develop a way to screen enrolling students and reduce the large percentage of students doing poorly in the course. The product moment correlation between the Toledo scores and the…

The relationship between the Scholastic Aptitude Test of Ontario (S.A.T.O.) administered to twelfth grade students and the College Entrance Examination Board Scholastic Aptitude Test (C.E.E.B.), of which the S.A.T.O. is a modification, was studied. Data was collected through the co-operation of the schools. The S.A.T.O. data was recorded as raw…

Reports on methods of school assessment of student achievement in Canada. It includes a brief description of the tests that are commonly used at the intermediate level and the ways in which they are used. (Author)

Presents an interview with W. Willard Wirtz, chairman of the College Entrance Examination Board panel investigating the decline in Scholastic Aptitude Test scores. (IRT)