Examines major issues in the debate over Crouse's research and recommendations concerning the (SAT) Scholastic Aptitude Test's incremental value in admissions; the nature of the admissions process; other benefits to colleges of the SAT; its possible benefits for college applicants; and the use of college admissions tests as interventions for…

Teachers concerned about excessive testing may be depriving themselves of useful information provided by standardized achievement tests and their own exams. Teachers tend to separate testing from teaching. This article explores the relationship among data collection, curriculum planning, and instruction and gauges the impacts of mandated…

Scores from the National Board Dental Hygiene Examination (NBDHE) served as the criterion variable in a comparison of the predictive validity of the Dental Hygiene Aptitude Tests (DHAT) and the ACT Assessment tests. The DHAT-Science and Verbal tests combined to produce the highest multiple correlation with NBDHE scores. (Author/DWH)

The relationship between item parameter values obtained from independent Birnbaum (l968) model calibrations of the same item set from two different samples is examined. (Author)

The purpose of this paper was to examine the factor structure of the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery, Forms 8, 9, and 10. The analyses provided evidence of the replicability of ability constructs across diverse samples. (Author/PN)

Article is addressed to the differential susceptibility of Quantitative Comparisons, Data Sufficiency, and Regular Mathematics aptitude test items to an intensive program of short term instruction. Of secondary interest is the relative susceptibility of geometry and nongeometry items within these three formats. (Author/RK)

The data of the present study supplement those given by Vane and also provide a context in which to assess the differential abilities of Negro and Puerto Rican Head Start Children on verbal and performance tasks. (Author)

Increasing pressures on students to gain admission to highly competitive colleges has brought about an upsurge in tutorial services and the use of sample test questions, which are supposed to guarantee success on college admissions tests. Their effect, at best seems scant. (Author/RK)

In the card-punch operating training described here, it seems that extraversion is more important in job success in the early stages of training and clerical aptitude less so, with the relative importance of these attributes being reversed at a later stage. (Authors)

Author lists standardized measures of teacher and student attitudes and teacher aptitude. (SP)