Peter Facione's generally well thoughtout set of suggestions for messing up a critical thinking test l overlooked one significant option for the construction of defective multiple-choice (hereinafter MC) tests: require the impossible. 2 Perhaps Facione was being intentionally devious, leaving this option to be discovered by the intrepid reader, but it appears that one of the MC items he uses to...

It is important to establish valid field measures of lower body strength in the elderly as well 2 as provide representative normative values that are culturally specific in order to help health professionals in the risk assessment of this group. A sample of 1038 elderly Hong 4 Kong Chinese undertook a 30 s chair stand test (30CST), with a sub-sample of 143 completing isometric measures of maxim...

BACKGROUND Volume & Heaviness was one of three Piagetian tests used in the CSMS survey in 1975/76. However unlike psychometric tests showing the Flynn effect - that is with students showing steady improvements year by year requiring tests to be restandardized - it appeared that the performance of Y7 students has recently been getting steadily worse. AIMS A sample of schools sufficiently large...