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Autor:
Marvin L. Simner, John B. Mitchell
Publikováno v:
Canadian Journal of School Psychology. 22:182-190
The Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) is widely used to screen university applicants for whom English is not their native language. Although the cutoff scores vary, in Ontario those with scores much lower than 550 are rarely admitted to a
Autor:
Richard D. Goffin, Marvin L. Simner
Publikováno v:
International Journal of Testing. 3:353-364
Among the various tests employed in personnel selection, handwriting analysis, or graphology, has enjoyed long-standing international popularity despite being highly contentious. This report contains not only an evaluation of the current published sc
Autor:
Marvin L. Simner
Publikováno v:
Canadian Journal of School Psychology. 16:1-14
Each spring teachers throughout Canada are required to administer a series of provinciallymandated tests to the students in their classes. Approximately six months later the results are made available to the public. It is now common practice for the
Autor:
Marvin L. Simner, Michelle R. Eidlitz
Publikováno v:
Canadian Journal of School Psychology. 16:103-110
Autor:
Marvin L. Simner
Publikováno v:
European Journal of Psychological Assessment. 15:284-294
Summary: The Canadian Psychological Association recently issued a position statement on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). The purpose of the statement was to alert university officials to serious shortcomings in the use of the TOEFL
Autor:
Marvin L. Simner, Esther R. Goldberg
Publikováno v:
Canadian Journal of School Psychology. 14:11-30
The current study compared the speed and legibility of handwriting produced by children exposed to either traditional instruction (TI) or whole-language instruction (WLI) in an attempt to determine whether children who received traditional, intensive
Autor:
Marvin L. Simner
Publikováno v:
European Journal of Psychological Assessment. 14:261-265
Nearly all Canadian universities employ, as a standard for university admission, the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). In light of considerable evidence indicating only a weak relationship between TOEFL scores and academic achievement, t
Autor:
Marvin L. Simner
Publikováno v:
Canadian Journal of School Psychology. 13:61-76
An item analysis was performed on the geometric-form copy tasks used to identify kindergarten children at risk for early school failure. The outcome of this analysis revealed that only eight of the 15 forms found on these tasks and only certain of th
Autor:
Marvin L. Simner
Publikováno v:
Canadian Journal of School Psychology. 11:138-141
Autor:
Marvin L. Simner
Publikováno v:
European Journal of Psychological Assessment. 12:72-82
An investigation by the Canadian Psychological Association was undertaken to examine the effectiveness of the two major safeguards that the North American test industry normally employs to help protect the public against test misuse. The outcome of t