NORMS ARE SHOWN IN TERMS OF CUTTING SCORES FOR EACH OF THE APTITUDES FOUND TO BE SIGNIFICANT FOR THE OCCUPATION. THE STANDARD ERROR OF AN OBTAINED SCORE FOR EACH APTITUDE OF THE GENERAL APTITUDE TEST BATTERY IS APPROXIMATELY SEVEN POINTS. INCLUDED IN THE MANUAL ARE (1) AN ALPHABETICAL INDEX TO APTITUDE TEST BATTERIES, (2) AN INDUSTRIAL INDEX TO…

THE PURPOSE OF THIS INVESTIGATION WAS TO DETERMINE WHETHER THE PRELIMINARY SCHOLASTIC APTITUDE TEST PRESENTED A DIFFERENTIAL DIFFICULTY FOR RACIAL AND SOCIOECONOMIC GROUPS. THE SUBJECTS WERE TWO GROUPS TOTALING 1,410 NEGRO AND WHITE HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS IN AN INTEGRATED HIGH SCHOOL WHO HAD TAKEN THE TEST. THEY WERE DIVIDED INTO THREE SOCIOECONOMIC…

In two college counseling client samples, 29 two-need Edwards Personal Preference Scale (EPPS) patterns were found to occur frequently, 13 involving high achievement. The prediction of college grades in these two samples was studied utilizing these EPPS patterns, a set of traditional aptitude/achievement measures, and patterns combined with…

Results obtained by the Kudar-Richardson formula (20) adapted for use with R-KW scoring are compared with three other reliability formulas. Based on parallel tests administered at the same sitting the KR (20) estimates are compared with alternate-form correlations and with odd-even correlations adjusted by the Spearman-Brown prophecy formula.…

A list of tests, published in the United States and abroad, is presented. A brief description is given of the content of each test. Types of tests presented are: Achievement; Aptitude; Personality, Interests, Aptitudes, and Opinions; and Miscellaneous, Sensory-Motor, Unidentified. Lists of announcements received, tests no longer available, new…

Published and unpublished research with the Vocational Interest Inventory based on Anne Roe's interest scheme supported separating the General Cultural area out of the RIASEC framework. It emerged as a distinct fusion of certain verbal-artistic and social tendencies. (Author)

Describes what publishers of major achievement tests are now doing to minimize bias and offers recommendations for changes still needed. (Author/ABB)

Many students are not accepted in to certain colleges and universities because of low SAT scores. Loren Meierding has written Ace the Verbal on the SAT to help students with minimal preparation do well by improving their vocabulary and use better techniques for finding the answers to the questions. This book provides strategies needed to score…

Success of the student is an important goal for the teacher. This goal should be achieved in elementary school. (MR)

An examination was made of a large number of GATB validation studies to determine the frequency of nonlinear relationships. The number of significantly nonlinear relationships fell very close to the chance level; about 5 per cent were significant at the .05 level and 1 per cent were significant at the .01 level. (Author)