In the last few years, computer assisted tailored testing has been shown to be technically feasible; the question of its acceptability to examinees therefore assumes increased importance. This report presents the reactions and opinions of 163 examinees who participated in a tailored testing pilot study conducted at the U. S. Civil Service Commission during the fall of 1975. The reactions of the examinees can accurately be summarized as overwhelmingly positive, thus disposing of yet another potential obstacle to the advance of this innovative technique.

The present study examined and evaluated the application of linear policy-capturing models to the real-world decision task of graduate admissions. Major findings were that (1) effectiveness of policy capturing was moderated by psychology sub-areas, with the experimental and clinical subgroups showing the highest and lowest predictability, respectively ; (2) utility of the policy-capturing models was great enough to be of practical significance; and (3) least squares weights showed no predictive advantage over equal weights. In psychology one body of research results that has not been fully exploited for its applications potential is that concerned with human judgment and decision making (Slovic & Lichenstein, 1971). Over 20 years of research have resulted in a number of verified principles of potentially great practical and social value. For example, the evidence is overwhelming that decision tasks requiring the integration and combination of information items to produce an overall judgment or prediction are better performed actuarially (using regression weights derived by analysis against the criterion measure) than by human decision makers (Meehl, 1954; Sawyer, 1966). It is also known that virtually all kinds of human decision makers (e.g., clinical APPLIED PSYCHOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT Vol. 2, No. 3 Summer 1978 pp. 345-35 7 @ Copyright 1978 West Publishing Co. psychologists, medical diagnosticians, stockbrokers) can be successfully simulated by linear models and that these models are as successful as, and sometimes more successful than, more

EDUCATIONAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT 1966, 26, 729-731. THE new IBM Optical Mark Scoring Reader can eliminate cumbersome hand key punching jobs. This machine when used with its key punch attachment (the 534 Key Punch), is capable of quick and accurate' automatic transfer of information from special answer/response sheets to IBM cards. These answer/response sheets are coded with ordinary number 2 pencils. However, when they are designed and supplied commercially, the cost is high and delivery is slow.Thanks to an attempt at printing the answer sheets by Max Ferder of Borough of Manhattan Community College, the writer has been able to develop a procedure for designing and printing them by photo-offset. Thus, not only costs can be reduced, but also individual code sheets can be provided for the specific demands of a single research project.It is specified that the answer sheets must be in two colors-the response positions in a reflective ink and the timing check marks in the right margin in a non-reflective ink (black). However, twocolor printing is not really necessary. Answer sheets can be made by ordinary photo-offset if the black ink is kept light. The surest way to guard against dark printing is to have the printer use the process newspapers employ to reduce the blackness of a picture. In this process, black areas are reduced to areas of small dots, barely visible to the naked eye. When this process is used on the response section of an answer sheet, the black ink is reduced to a shade of gray and the timing marks remain a heavy shade of black. A hue at

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EDUCATIONAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL MEASUREMFNT 1966, 26, 739-742. UNDER ordinary circumstances tests or questionnaires requiring more than one response at the same time to a given question cannot be punched by the IBM 1230 Optical Mark Scoring Reader-534 Key Punch System. The 1230 reads across the answer sheet by looking at ten response positions in a line on the left and by then following the same procedure on the right. When responses are to be punched for a test item analysis or for a questionnaire, the machine does not punch less than the ten positions at one time. If more than one mark occurs in each set of ten positions, a multipunch results. If there are more than three marks to the set, a &dquo;12&dquo; punch results when the 534 Key Punch is programmed with a &dquo;2&dquo; punch in the drum card for the column to be punched. The same outcome results if there are more than two when the &dquo;3&dquo; (alphameric) punch is used on the drum.However, an answer sheet or questionnaire with more than one possible response per five choice question can be punched. As one faces the side of the IBM 1230 with the operating dials and switches, a panel door on the right side can be seen. When it is opened, a panel of twenty-one numbered buttons with inserts for a screw driver is visible. The buttons are used to change the brightness of the light bulbs that shoot light to the passing answer sheet for reflection back to the photoelectric cells. If the buttons are turned clockwise, the lights get brighter. If turned counterclockwise, the lights get dimmer. (Before turning any of these buttons,