Placement tests are rapidly joining the ranks of high-stakes testing and college freshmen are required to take mathematics placement exams to determine their first mathematics course upon entering college. Unfortunately, these exams tend to place students in a lower-level or remedial course. As a result, additional expenses are incurred, degree…

We conducted correlational and performance discrepancy analyses on exam and achievement data taken from students in three psychology courses. Across courses, the same findings emerged. First, only a small fraction of students consistently performed more strongly on one type of assessment (e.g., multiple-choice) than on another (e.g., short…

Colleges, once seen as beacons of egalitarian hope, are becoming bastions of wealth and privilege that perpetuate inequality. The chance of a low-income child obtaining a bachelor's degree has not budged in three decades: Just 6 percent of students from the lowest-income families earned a bachelor's degree by age 24 in 1970, and in 2002 still only…

An important but too infrequently considered methodology that can be used in research, especially research focusing on Pearson's "r" (B. Walsh, 1996) or the multiple "R" (see B. Thompson, 1992) involves testing for moderator or mediator variable effects. As explained by M. Gall, W. Borg, and J. Gall (1996), moderator analysis…

APTITUDE MATURATION RESEARCH COMPLETED IN 1959 MADE IT POSSIBLE TO EXTEND THE USE OF THE GENERAL APTITUDE TEST BATTERY (GATB) TO EDUCATIONAL VOCATIONAL COUNSELING OF NINTH AND 10TH GRADERS. IN AN EFFORT TO EXTEND ITS USE FURTHER, THIS STUDY WAS MADE TO DETERMINE THE EXTENT TO WHICH THE OCCUPATIONAL TEST NORMS VALIDATED ON ADULT SAMPLES PREDICT THE…

CONVERSION TABLES ARE PRESENTED FOR ESTIMATING READING ACHIEVEMENT (READING GRADE LEVEL AS MEASURED BY THE CALIFORNIA ACHIEVEMENT TEST AND SCALED SCORE AS MEASURED BY THE DAVIS READING TEST) FROM THE AIRMAN QUALIFYING EXAMINATION GENERAL APTITUDE INDEX. DISTRIBUTIONS OF ESTIMATED READING GRADE ARE SHOWN FOR NON-PRIOR-SERVICE AIRMEN ENTERING THE…

AS A PHASE OF A STUDY OF THE SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF ABILITY TESTING, A NATIONAL STRATIFIED RANDOM SAMPLE OF 1,482 ADULTS WAS INTERVIEWED. OF THE RESPONDENTS, 59 PERCENT REPORTED AT LEAST ONE EXPERIENCE WITH A TEST OF APTITUDE OR INTELLIGENCE. WHILE THEY SAID THEY WERE RELATIVELY WELL INFORMED ABOUT TEST RESULTS THEY CONSIDERED SUCH TESTS AS LESS…

THIS WORKBOOK FOLLOWS THE BASIC FORMAT OF THE MILLER ANALOGIES TEST (MAT) AND PROVIDES STEP BY STEP DIRECTIONS, TESTS, AND CORRECT ANSWERS. IT HAS A "GETTING READY" CHAPTER WHICH DESCRIBES WHAT THE MAT IS, WHO TAKES IT, WHAT IT TESTS, WHEN IT IS GIVEN, HOW ONE APPLIES TO TAKE IT, HOW SCORES ARE REPORTED, AND HOW TO PREPARE FOR IT. IT…

The present bibliography contains over 400 titles: 150 language tests for the mother tongue, 130 tests for second languages, and over 100 titles of documents and information concerning language testing. The volume consists of seven parts. In Parts I to V inclusively are titles of tests listed as follows: second language tests, mother-tongue tests,…

This study assessed the extent to which students commit various types of errors when completing Holland's Self-Directed Search (SDS) entirely on their own. Nearly all students made some type of error and approximately half of the students made errors that affected their final 3-letter summary codes. Almost one-fifth of the students made errors…

This is an introductory comment by the organizer of the 1986 symposium of the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME). The symposium was organized as a memorial to the late Roger Lennon, former president of NCME and a scholar in the field of educational measurement. (JAZ)

Study seeks to determine whether verbal and arithmetic skills measures were related to indices of job behavior for a hardcore'' unemployed sample. (Author)