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PUBLISHED STANDARIZED TESTS - AN ANNOTATED LIST FOR JUNIOR COLLEGES. FIELD STUDIES REPORT SERIES, 3.
SEIBEL, DEAN W. – 1967
FROM THE CATALOGS AND OTHER DESCRIPTIVE MATERIALS OF 23 PUBLISHERS OF STANDARDIZED TESTS, THE AUTHOR SELECTED GROUP-TYPE, PAPER AND PENCIL, POST-HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL MEASUREMENT INSTRUMENTS. INFORMATION ABOUT EACH ENTRY INCLUDES (1) THE TITLE, (2) THE PUBLISHER, (3) WORKING TIME, (4) NUMBER OF EQUIVALENT FORMS, (5) A DESCRIPTION, (6) A REFERENCE…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Aptitude Tests, Intelligence Tests, Interest Inventories
MORGENFELD, GEORGE ROBERT – 1967
THE PURPOSE OF THE STUDY WAS THE DEVELOPMENT OF A MEANS OF IMPROVING UPON THE USE OF HIGH SCHOOL GRADE AVERAGES AS PREDICTORS OF GRADES AT ALFRED STATE COLLEGE. THE SAMPLE CONSISTED OF STUDENTS FROM 15 HIGH SCHOOLS WHICH HAD SENT AT LEAST 20 STUDENTS TO THE COLLEGE DURING A 6-YEAR PERIOD. AN "INTERNAL" SCALING OF HIGH SCHOOL GRADES WAS…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, College Entrance Examinations, Grade Prediction, Grades (Scholastic)
MANUEL, HERSCHEL T. – 1963
TESTING MATERIALS IN BOTH SPANISH AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDITIONS WERE REVISED AND NEW MATERIALS CREATED IN THIS PROJECT. THE NEW SERIES OF TESTS INCLUDED ADMINISTRATION, AND ITEM ANALYSIS OF THE COOPERATIVE INTER-AMERICAN TESTS. DATA FOR THE ENGLISH EDITIONS WERE GATHERED FROM SUBJECTS DRAWN FROM AMERICAN SCHOOLS, AND DATA FOR THE SPANISH EDITIONS…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, English, Reading Tests, Spanish
McCormick, Ernest J.; And Others – 1977
The Position Analysis Questionnaire (PAQ), a structured job analysis questionnaire that provides for the analysis of individual jobs in terms of each of 187 job elements, was used to establish the job component validity of certain commercially-available vocational aptitude tests. Prior to the general analyses reported here, a statistical analysis…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Cluster Analysis, Job Analysis, Occupational Tests
Marquardt, Lloyd D.; McCormick, Ernest J. – 1974
The study involved the use of a structured job analysis instrument called the Position Analysis Questionnaire (PAQ) as the direct basis for the establishment of the job component validity of aptitude tests (that is, a procedure for estimating the aptitude requirements for jobs strictly on the basis of job analysis data). The sample of jobs used…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Employment Qualifications, Job Analysis, Measurement Instruments
Lunneborg, Clifford E.; Lunneborg, Patricia W. – 1969
The hypothesis that tests of precollege aptitude/achievement are poor predictors of later college grades because of uneven changes in aptitude development over these years was investigated. A battery of 11 tests administered before college entrance was readministered to 59 female and 67 male college seniors. Correlations obtained from high school…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Higher Education
Manpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1973
To familiarize supervisors, interviewers, and employer relations personnel with U. S. Employment Service (USES) testing, the trainee's handbook cites five training objectives. They are: simplify understanding of tests, describe employment service tests, mention advantages and limitations, show how to determine need for tests, and describe a…
Descriptors: Administrators, Aptitude Tests, Employment Services, Occupational Tests
Rosen, Pamela, Ed. – 1974
This quarterly bulletin lists and provides brief annotations for the instruments recently acquired by the Test Collection, a specialized library of tests and test-related information. Types of tests listed are: Achievement, Aptitude, Personality, Interests, Aptitudes and Opinions, and Sensory-Motor. Other information includes announcements of new…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Annotated Bibliographies, Aptitude Tests, Attitude Measures
Riedel, Robert G. – 1963
The nine problems used in the study of problem-solving processes are provided, along with the corresponding questions and their answers. Data on the values corresponding to each group, used in scoring, are also attached. (For related document, see TM 003 093.) (KM)
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Tests
Guinn, Nancy; And Others – 1970
The interrelationships between aptitude test performance and certain demographic-cultural variables were investigated, as well as the relationship between these variables and the aptitude test factor content. Five test batteries were administered to groups of approximately 1,900 subjects each. Multiple regression analyses indicated that there were…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Cultural Influences, Demography, Multiple Regression Analysis
Melnick, Murray – 1971
In this essay on higher education for the disadvantaged, the author discusses the definition of "disadvantaged," assessment procedures of disadvantaged students, and the predictive value of aptitude tests. The author concludes that more and better controlled studies are needed, preferably longitudinal, and offering clear information on the extent…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement, Aptitude Tests, College Admission
Williams, Robert L. – 1970
Ability tests in use today and the educational programs of the schools are examined from a Black perspective. It is stated that it is incumbent upon educators to develop appropriate learning experiences in the classroom which relate to the Black child's background experiences. The following issues are raised: (1) I.Q. tests (predictor variables)…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Black Students, Correlation, Culture Fair Tests
Koran, Mary Lou; Koran, John J., Jr. – 1972
In an experiment designed to explore the interaction of individual differences with question pacing in learning from written materials, 93 college students were administered aptitude tests representing verbal and memory abilities and then randomly assigned to treatments in which questions were placed after every one or four pages or were omitted…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, College Students, Memory, Prose
Schlenker, Richard M.
Two groups of continuing education students were tested using three of Viktor Lowenfeld's tests of visual-haptic perception. The scores from the three tests were added to yield a score which identified an individual's location on Lowenfeld's visual-haptic continuum. The investigation also uncovered scoring problems with two of the tests which had…
Descriptors: Adults, Aptitude Tests, Geographic Regions, Perception Tests
Nevo, Barukh – Measurement and Evaluation in Guidance, 1976
Freshmen (N=202) took two batteries of aptitude tests 10 months apart. Six pairs of tests were studied. Two pairs were identical, two were parallel, and two were completely different. This design made it possible to separate three components of practice: (a) general test sophistication, (b) specific practice effect, and (c) item familiarization.…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis, Group Testing