A counselor stress inventory was developed. Six factors of occupational stress emerged from factor analysis. Age and school size were the variables that had the most influence on perceptions.
The purpose of this investigation was to explore the effects of examiner familiarity, task complexity, and mode of response on the test performance of speech- and language-impaired preschoolers. Implications for both current testing practices and future research are discussed.
"Informal Assessment in Education by Gilbert R. Guerin and Arlee S. Maier." Measurement and Evaluation in Guidance, 16(4), p. 223
This article describes an incident involving apparent misscoring of test answer sheets by a desktop scoring unit. The need for continuing student education in item marking is discussed.
The purpose of this critique is to identify several flaws in Knapp's (1980) article on change scores in counseling research. Some of the arguments presented apply not only to Knapp, but also to other published material on the measurement of change. There is a need for actual empirical studies of the psychometric properties of growth and change measures.
The purpose of this study was to examine the reliability, construct validity, and predictive validity of the Non-Cognitive Questionnaire for different racial groups. The questionnaire had adequate test-retest reliability, and evidence for its construct validity was provided. It significantly added to predicting grades for both White and Black subsamples and significantly predicted persistence for the Black subsamples.
Because Holland's personality scores distinguish people who prefer different activities and claim different skills, this study tested whether the scores relate differentially to career development needs. The findings showed that the scores related differentially in ways predicted by Holland (1973) and supported probing whether college students earning low Investigative scores were behind in their career development.
One major problem in cross-cultural research is language equivalence of measurement instruments that have been translated. This study was designed to determine the equivalency of the Spanish translation of the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory to the English version. The results indicated that the translated version was comparable to the English version and that the two forms elicited similar interests.
This article describes a simulation method for observing career information-seeking behavior. The method has promise for further experimentation as a tool in local program evaluation and as an outcome measure in career guidance research.
Three item-difficulty sequence forms of an achievement test were administered to sixth-grade students. No relationship between item-difficulty sequence and test performance, reliability, or item difficulty and discrimination was discovered.
The adequacy of reporting the use of observers in counseling research was assessed. Each sampled article was classified according to the use made of the observer, the type and length of training given the observer, and the assessments made of the observers' reliability and validity. Implications for the development of a science of counseling are discussed.
The responses of 641 students to the Bem Sex-Role Inventory were factor analyzed. When nudes were compared to females, only one of ten factors reached the similarity criterion.
This article challenges some common arguments used by counselors who resist accountability. Important research issues are identified, and recommendations are discussed.
Answer changing on an eighth-grade aggregate science achievement collection of 134 items was examined by race and sex in relation to test anxiety. No sex differences in answer changing were noted; Black students, however, were found to make significantly more total changes, including wrong to wrong and right to wrong. The only significant correlations were for White males, the total White student group, the total male group, and the total student group. Significantly higher test anxiety scores were found for Black and female students.
