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Steckler, Victor – Journal of Employment Counseling, 1973
This article re-examines data from the Nonreading Aptitude Test Battery (NATB) and General Aptitude Battery (GATB) test manuals in light of some conventionally accepted psychometric considerations. It is recommended that caution be employed in relating NATB profiles to the Occupational Aptitude Patterns' norms. (Author)
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Career Counseling, Employment Counselors, Measurement
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Young, William T. – Journal of Research in Music Education, 1973
If one accepts the premise that the criterion measure (Musical Aptitude Profile) is a valid predictor of future musical success, then the Measures of Musical Abilities, based on these data, can be considered to possess a moderately high validity for the same purpose. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Music, Predictor Variables, Tables (Data)
Kranzler, Gerald D. – Sch Counselor, 1970
Counselors should recognize possibility that test score interpretation may decrease self acceptance of low ability students. On other students no significant differences exist between control and experimental groups. (Author/CJ)
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Aptitude Tests, High School Students, Self Concept
Cassel, Russell N. – Sci Educ, 1969
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aptitude Tests, Evaluation, International Education
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Pimsleur, Paul; Struth, Johann F. – Unterrichtsprax, 1969
Condensed version of a study reported in "Pimsleur Language Test Forum No. 4, available from Test Department, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 757 Third Ave., New York, N.Y. 10017. (DS)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aptitude Tests, German, Language Ability
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Koran, Mary Lou – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Deduction, Individual Differences, Induction
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Brown, Jane Lightcap; Lightsey, Ralph – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1970
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, College English, College Freshmen, English
Jencks, Christopher; Crouse, James – New Directions for Testing and Measurement, 1982
Shifting from aptitude to achievement tests for college admissions is discussed with implications toward the positive educational effects of rewarding diligence and serious study in high school. The Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) is compared with other achievement tests reqarding effects on schools and equal opportunity. (CM)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, College Entrance Examinations, Secondary Education
Edmonds, Ronald R.; And Others – New Directions for Testing and Measurement, 1982
The need for accuracy in testing, the unintended social consequences, and the contrast of achievement and aptitude tests are discussed in response to the views of Jencks and Crouse (see TM 506 983) regarding whether to change the function of the SAT. (CM)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, College Entrance Examinations, Secondary Education
Jencks, Christopher; Crouse, James – Phi Delta Kappan, 1982
Reviews the controversy over the difference between using aptitude test scores or achievement test scores as a basis for selecting college entrants. Concludes that emphasizing the Scholastic Aptitude Test fails to reward students who work hard in secondary school. (WD)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, College Admission, College Entrance Examinations
Super, Donald E.; Thompson, Albert S. – Vocational Guidance Quarterly, 1979
Describes the Career Development Inventory, Form III, which provides data on its content, reliability, factor structure, and validity. Uses of the CDI in evaluation studies, in surveys for planning career education, and in individual and group counseling are discussed. (Author)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Aptitude Tests, Career Counseling, Career Development
Banas, Norma; Wills, I. H. – Academic Therapy, 1979
The article (Part 2 of a series) discusses the Auditory Attention Span for Unrelated Words and the Visual Attention Span for Objects subtests of the Detroit Tests of Learning Aptitude. Skills measured and related factors influencing performance are among aspects considered. Suggestions for remediating deficits and capitalizing on strengths are…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Attention Span, Diagnostic Teaching, Diagnostic Tests
Copperman, Paul – Phi Delta Kappan, 1979
Rebuts articles asserting that the steep decline in school test scores has been stopped. (IRT)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Elementary Secondary Education
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Carson, Andrew D. – Journal of Career Assessment, 1998
Data from 270 men and 277 women on the Ball Aptitude Battery and personality questionnaires were used to test Lowman's matrix of expected characteristics across Holland's six vocational types. Over half of Lowman's predictions were confirmed. General cognitive ability may have affected other results. (SK)
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Intelligence, Personality Traits, Predictive Validity
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Stanovich, Keith E. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1991
Argues that use of intelligence as an aptitude benchmark in the definition of dyslexia conceals illogical assumptions about the concept of potential. Concludes that the validity of a severe discrepancy between aptitude and achievement as the defining feature of dyslexia has yet to be established sufficiently to justify differential educational…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Definitions, Dyslexia, Intelligence
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