Of primary interest in this study was the effect of general ability on learning. It was hypothesized that students higher in general ability would obtain higher posttest scores on the average than lower ability students, and that verbal and figural explanatory supplements to minimal instructional materials would reduce the regression of general…

TO DETERMINE WHETHER ARBITRARY GRADE-POINT AVERAGE CUT-OFF POINTS (E.G. 2.25) FOR ENTRANCE INTO TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAMS ARE UNFAIR TO PRESENT-DAY STUDENTS, NINETY 1966 COLLEGE SOPHOMORES WITH FRESHMAN-YEAR GPA'S BETWEEN 2.00 AND 2.09 WERE COMPARED TO THE SAME NUMBER OF 1961 SOPHOMORES WITH FRESHMAN-YEAR GPA'S BETWEEN 2.25 AND 2.34 USING (1)…

THE INTENT OF THIS PROJECT WAS TO ASSEMBLE BASIC DATA ABOUT CURRENT TESTING PRACTICES IN MINNESOTA SCHOOL SYSTEMS. PREPARED WERE TWO QUESTIONNAIRES, ONE FOR THE ELEMENTARY AND THE OTHER FOR THE SECONDARY LEVELS. THEY WERE DESIGNED TO BE AS SIMILAR AS POSSIBLE. THE TABLES CONTAINING THE DATA FROM THE QUESTIONNAIRE RESPONSES ARE THE HEART OF THE…

DURING THE 1966 SUMMER RESEARCH PROGRAM, THE NEW BRUNSWICK DEPARTMENT OF LABOUR CONDUCTED A STUDY OF THE HIGH DROPOUT RATE AMONG THE 2,673 APPRENTICES IN THE PROVINCE. THE PURPOSE WAS TO FIND AN ADEQUATE SELECTION METHOD FOR TRAINEES. DATA FROM EXISTING FILES AND FROM A QUESTIONNAIRE FILLED IN BY FORMER EMPLOYERS AND DISTRICT SUPERVISORS WERE…

One-half-page resumes of a variety of tests applicable to secondary level bilingual education have been compiled here. The following areas are covered, with the number of tests in each area in parentheses: multiple skills (5), writing (2), listening and speaking (5), grammar (4), reading (2), aptitude (3), occupational interest (4), general…

Intended primarily for secondary school administrators, teachers, and counselors, this booklet summarizes the information available, as of 1965, about the ways special coaching or tutoring may affect students' scores on the College Board's Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). Coaching refers to the variety of methods used in attempting to increase, in…

Testing in the United States has had a checkered history since tests were developed and used at the beginning of this century. In the earlier part of the century, test results were used to justify the exclusion of immigrants from parts of Europe. More recently, they have come under attack as restricting the access of blacks to jobs and education.…

THE NATIONAL APTITUDE SURVEY ATTEMPTED TO PROVIDE A HIGH SCHOOL GUIDANCE INSTRUMENT TO IDENTIFY POTENTIAL AUTOMOTIVE REPAIRMEN. THE FORMAL REPORT INTRODUCES A GENERAL STATEMENT WITH THE NEEDS, THE ADVANTAGES, THE DEVELOPMENT, AND THE SAMPLE FOR THE SURVEY. THE SURVEY TEST MANUAL DISCUSSES ADMINISTRATION AND SCORING, NORMS AND PROFILES,…

The purpose of the 6-year Minnesota Student Characteristics and Occupationally related Education Project (MINI-SCORE) is to identify criteria which are useful to counselors and others in the selection and counseling of post-high school vocational-technical students as they choose specific vocational-technical curriculums. Data were collected on…

The author discusses the testing of the validity of self-pacing in a two-year programed German course at Colorado State University. Two teaching situations were set up for the programed materials. The first group, 24 students who met in a room "equipped somewhat like a language laboratory," were "self-paced," using books, tapes, and a tape…

Single-score measures of intelligence are inadequate to predict performance on a programed instruction format. Guilford's model of the intellect accounts for three dimensions relevant to learner abilities. The content dimension refers to the kind of material involved, the product dimension to the kind of output required, and the process dimension…

Detailed item analysis results for a form of the Scholastic Aptitude Test were examined for evidence of sex differences in test speededness. The conclusions were: (1) there was no evidence of appreciable differences in rate-of-work on any section of the Scholastic Aptitude Test; (2) there was some evidence that low-scoring females on the…

Fifty-eight books, monographs, and dissertations and 116 articles and papers published between 1953 and 1975 are listed in this bibliography of information about aptitude-treatment interactions (ATI). The emphasis is on research and development of theoretical models, but many sources deal with application of ATI theory to actual teaching and…

The Virginia Beach City School System has utilized an experimental school year plan known as 45-15. Under this plan, schools remain in session throughout the year and students are assigned to one of four attendance cycles which begin 15 days apart. As a result of the staggered attendance pattern, only three groups (cycles) of students are in…

The feasibility of inferring relative task difficulty values and relative task aptitude requirements for a variety of tasks in the General and Administrative work areas is discussed. It was established that there was a high positive relationship between relative task difficulty values, as designated by work supervisors, and the corresponding…