The United States Training and Employment Service General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB), first published in 1947, has been included in a continuing program of research to validate the tests against success in many different occupations. The GATB consists of 12 tests which measure nine aptitudes: General Learning Ability; Verbal Aptitude; Numerical…

The United States Training and Employment Service General Aptitude Test Battery (GATB), first published in 1947, has been included in a continuing program of research to validate the tests against success in many different occupations. The GATB consists of 12 tests which measure nine aptitudes: General Learning Ability; Verbal Aptitude; Numerical…

To provide information on performance and characteristics of effective and ineffective marginal personnel in the Army, a study has been made of approximately 1,500 men with experience ranging up to 20 years in four different Army MOSs. The study included a group of men with Armed Forces Qualification Test scores in the marginal range and a…

A 15-stage pyramidal test and a 40-item two-stage test were constructed and administered by computer to 111 college undergraduates. The two-stage test was found to utilize a smaller proportion of its potential score range than the pyramidal test. Score distributions for both tests were positively skewed but not significantly different from the…

The development and use of instruments for vocational guidance, selection, and placement within the State of Idaho are reviewed. Vocational guidance is defined as assisting the individual to understand himself, the world of work, and career choice. Selection and placement are described as activities characteristically used by educational…

The report presents results of development and evaluation of the first computer assisted instruction (CAI) course segment for basic electronics. Following student tryout and revision the CAI segment was evaluated by comparing achievement and time scores of students who received training on the CAI segment with those receiving normal classroom…

To find the concurrent validity of two scholastic aptitude tests when a scholastic achievement test was used as a criterion for use in placement of mentally retarded children, 127 subjects were involved. The California Achievement Test (CAT) was used as a criterion measure, and the Primary Mental Abilities test (PMA) and the Slosson Intelligence…

This study investigated the influence of examiner race (white versus Negro), style of interaction (warm versus cold), and sex (male versus female) on test responses of 96 male Negro subjects enrolled in an antipoverty work experience program. The Information, Comprehension, Vocabulary, Digit-Symbol, Block Design, and Picture Arrangement subtests…

Studies on high school students, college students and military personnel were reviewed to observe the results of an objective investigation into the effectiveness of different training methods in school situations. The instructional aim was to inform the students of facts or principles in some subject matter. The review was primarily of the…

The study reported here compares the performance on a mental ability test of children in grades two and three from homes in which English is the language spoken with those from homes in which Spanish is the language used. During the Spring semester, the InterAmerican Tests of General Ability, Level Two, and their Spanish parallel, were…

The Test Collection Bulletin is a quarterly digest of information on tests and test related services and activities. Each issue lists acquisitions to the E-T-S-Test Collection, an extensive library of tests, questionnaires, record and report forms and other assessment devices. In this issue are 147 measures of achievement, aptitude, personality…

Norm graphs are given for the purpose of aiding in the comparison of students of one school with those of another school with regard to scholastic ability, achievement, and school size. (CK)

The language training program for Peace Corps participants is investigated. The objectives were: to investigate the validity of the Modern Language Aptitude Test (MLAT) for predicting end-of-training Foreign Service Institute (FSI) language proficiency; to discover the relative difficulty of various target languages; to develop tentative…

A promising measure of learning ability has emerged from extensive research on schema theory: the Schematic Concept Formation (SCF) Test. Experimental evidence has already demonstrated substantial individual differences in SCF performance for third and fourth graders and college students. Because SCF depends on the learning of relatively…

A study was conducted using a sample of 13,000 urban high school juniors tested in 1968-69 with both the Kuder Occupational Interest Survey (KOIS) and the National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (NMSQT). Students were grouped on the basis of high scores on the various college major scales reported on the KOIS and on the self-expressed interest…