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Gould, R. Bruce – 1978
The construction and norming of Form N of the Air Force Officer Qualifying Test (AFOQT) is described. The new form serves the same purpose as its predecessor and possesses basically the same characteristics. References are made to the research which provided the basis for most of the changes. Other changes were made because of the admission of…
Descriptors: Aircraft Pilots, Item Analysis, Norms, Occupational Tests
Florida State Dept. of Education, Tallahassee. Div. of Teacher Education, Certification, and Accreditation. – 1980
This bulletin contains the specifications for the Professional Education subtest of the Florida Teacher Certification Examination. The specifications presented are being used for the 1980-81 examinations. General information on the test includes an outline of the content base, a content base/competency matrix, and a blueprint of the test by…
Descriptors: Competence, Higher Education, Minimum Competency Testing, Occupational Tests
Porter, Andrew C. – 1967
In a rapidly changing technological society, appropriate choice of occupation becomes increasingly important to the individual as well as to the employer. In this study, the effectiveness of a set of weights, established by the chi-square technique, for distinguishing among similar and dissimilar occupations was compared with the weighting scheme…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Guidance, Occupational Tests, Predictive Measurement
Manpower Administration (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1973
The unit provides an introduction to employment service testing for supervisors, interviewers, and employer relations personnel who need a basic knowledge of testing but who do not need to be test technicians. It may also be used as an introductory course for test examiners and counselors. The first part of the guide is an orientation to…
Descriptors: Administrators, Employment Services, Occupational Tests, Supervisory Training
Maier, Milton H.; Fuchs, Edmund F. – 1972
Army personnel managers have a continuing need to select, classify, and assign to training and jobs large numbers of young men who enter the services. Since the Army Classification Battery (ACB) is an integral part of the assignment process, accuracy of scores has a significant influence on the appropriateness of assignments. A new ACB and…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, Enlisted Personnel, Job Skills, Military Personnel
Hiscox, Michael D.; Nafziger, Dean H. – 1975
A study program and test collection project was recently completed by the Clearinghouse for Applied Performance Testing at the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL). The project focused on two separate, but related, objectives: compilation of self-study programs leading directly to certification or licensing and development of a survey…
Descriptors: Certification, Correspondence Schools, Correspondence Study, Data Collection
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Quinones, William A. – Mental Retardation, 1978
The study involving 61 moderately retarded Ss (16-41 years old) was designed to develop a battery of tests that would predict the vocational competency of moderately retarded Ss in a sheltered workshop program. (SBH)
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Job Skills, Mental Retardation, Moderate Mental Retardation
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Levinson, Edward M. – Psychology in the Schools, 1987
Vocational assessment services increasingly are being provided to disabled secondary school students as a result of recent federal legislation. Describes the need for such services, presenting a vocationally oriented psychological evaluation of a disabled adolescent. Discusses traditionally derived school psychological assessment data in…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Occupational Tests, Psychological Evaluation, School Psychologists
Elliott, Timothy R.; Byrd, E. Keith – Vocational Guidance Quarterly, 1985
Examined the performance of ninth-grade students on the Self-Directed Search during small group administrations monitored by a counselor. Results indicated scoring errors were high in comparison to norms. The percentage of erroneous summary codes was higher while transposition errors were lower, suggesting group administration with a proctor…
Descriptors: Career Exploration, Grade 9, Occupational Tests, Proctoring
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O'Brien, Thomas L. – Evaluation and the Health Professions, 1986
Credentialing examinations have been relatively immune from legal attack based on allegations that the examinations lack validity. The extent of the present legal obligation to demonstrate the validity of credentialing examinations is analyzed in three areas: (1) the Civil Rights Act of 1964; (2) the Constitution; and (3) antitrust laws.…
Descriptors: Certification, Civil Rights Legislation, Constitutional Law, Credentials
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Linn, Robert L. – Evaluation and the Health Professions, 1986
Three professional associations, the American Educational Research Association, the American Psychological Association, and the National Council on Measurement in Education, jointly adopted the new "Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing" in 1985. The relationship of these to earlier standards is reviewed, and implications…
Descriptors: Certification, Credentials, Equated Scores, Health Occupations
Bishop, John – 1989
Greater use of employment tests for selecting workers will mean that rewards for developing competencies measured by the tests will rise, increasing the supply of workers with the skills. Greater use of tests to select workers will also change the sorting of workers across jobs. The impact on total output will depend on the extent to which the…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Estimation (Mathematics), Females, Labor Force
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Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Austin. Div. of Community and Technical Colleges. – 2000
This report provides the licensure examination results for two-year technical associate degrees and one-year certificate programs at community and technical colleges in Texas. The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board recognizes the success rate for licensure as an integral part of the overall success of many technical programs. The following…
Descriptors: Certification, Community Colleges, Licensing Examinations (Professions), Occupational Tests
Sacks, Peter – 1999
This book examines the unhealthy and enduring obsession with standardized testing in the United States and how this tool of the meritocracy affects all U.S. residents, from kindergarten to job seeking. Why standardized testing continues to dominate the educational system is explored, as is why standardized testing is such a pervasive influence in…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Testing, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
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Cole, Nancy S. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1973
Analyses of the interrelationships of scales on common interest inventories and of the interest patterns of women selecting various occupations support the similarity of the structure of women's interests to the structure previously found for men. This information should be used to provide women with information about more and more diverse career…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Planning, Females, Interest Inventories
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