In the course of the seven years the Evaluation Staff devised about two hundred tests that were used experimentally, refined, and tried out again and again. Some of
them were finally discarded as inadequate, but others have proved to be useful to the schools and satisfactory to the Staff. They have been used with thousands of students, and their helpfulness and reliability have been established.
Sixteen of these evaluation instruments have been used most widely in secondary schools. They are listed here with a brief description of the nature and purpose of each:
Test 2.52. Interpretation of Data
This includes a series of exercises which require the student to formulate reasonable generalizations from data largely drawn from fields of the sciences and the social studies.
Test 1.3b. The Application of Principles of General Science
This includes a series of exercises in which the student is required to explain various scientific phenomena in terms of relevant facts and principles.
Test 1.42. Social Problems
This includes a series of social problems in which the student is asked to select a course of action and to support it in terms of social science generalizations and in terms of his own social beliefs.
Test 1.5. Application of Principles
This involves a series of social problems, the explanation of which rests more closely upon facts and generalizations and less upon social beliefs than in the case of Test 1.42. Test 5.12. The Application of Certain Principles of Logic The exercises in this test require the student to determine what conclusions follow logically from the premises.
Test 5.22. The Nature of Proof
These exercises require the student to identify basic definitions and assumptions and to judge their plausibility.
Test 7.1. Familiarity with Dependable Sources of Information
These exercises require the student to indicate sources of information on questions for study in various subject fields.
Test 7.2. Use of Books and Libraries
These exercises require familiarity with the organization of books and school libraries.
Test 7.3. Use of Books and Libraries for junior High Schools
This is similar to Tests 7.1 and 7.2, but is less difficult.
Test 4.21 and 4.31 Scale of Beliefs
The exercises in the two parts of this test give evidence of the liberalism or conservatism of the student's belief on various social science issues, and also give some measure of consistency of these beliefs.
Test 3.31. Questionnaire on Voluntary Reading
This questionnaire gives an indication of the types and intensity of the student , s reactions to literature.
Test 3.9. Seven Modern Paintings
This test and questionnaire gives some evidence of the student's reaction to a sample of modern paintings.
Test 3.10 and 3.11. Finding Pairs of Pictures
This is a non-verbal test requiring the student to select pairs of pictures which seem to him similar in important respects. It provides evidence of the range and maturity of his sensitivity to aesthetic aspects of pictures.
Test 8.2a. Interest Index
This questionnaire gives evidence of the range and maturity of the student's interests in activities related to various school subjects.
Test 3.1. Record of Free Reading
The free reading of students is appraised in terms of range and maturity by means of a list of fiction authors classified by types and by levels of maturity.
Test 8.2b and c. Interests and Activities
These questionnaires throw some light on the personal-social adjustment of adolescents in
terms of their likes and dislikes for various types of personal and social experience.
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