Kathryn W. Linden

Selecting instruments for identifying gifted and talented students

Proponents of the American educational system deliberately and frequently seek to evaluate the aptitudes and traits of students in an effort to provide educational opportunities consistent with the identified traits and aptitudes. As a result of these evaluations, the tests administered in schools have great impact upon the lives of students. Linden and Linden (1968) suggested that the students’ concepts of self and their motivations, as well as others’ perceptions of students, are affected by test results.

Teacher Rigidity and Continuing Education.

The purpose of this paper is to point to some of the possible reasons why rigidity tends to develop in teachers and to discuss the implications of this problem for continuing teacher education. Felker and Smith (4) found that subjects with teaching experience were less flexible in their approach to educational problems than were persons with an equivalent education who were preparing to teach but had not yet had teaching experience, and that age was not the deciding factor in producing this difference. If these conclusions

TESTRPT: Individualized Test Scoring and Reporting

fied throughout the program output by user-supplied &dquo;tags&dquo;. The transformations described above may be selected by the program, using the described criteria, or they may be selected by the user. Input. Input to the program consists of a parameter card, optional control cards (e.g., userselected transformations, missing data values, scatter plot selection), and the &dquo;tags&dquo; and data read under user-supplied variable format. Input decks may be stacked. Capacity. As presently dimensioned, the maximum number of subjects is 1000, the maximum number of variables is 10, the maximum number of tags is 5, the product of the number of subjects and the number of variables must be less than 2000, and the product of the number of subjects and the number of tags must be less than 1000. With these limitations, the program operates in 100K under IBM 360/65 OS. To increase the capacity of the program requires only changes in the DIMENSION statement. Computer and language. The program is written in FORTRAN IV for the IBM 360/65; however, it should run without change on any series 360 or 370 machine with at least 128K of fast core storage, and with minor changes on other machines.