This study discusses the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills objective-level reading scores of more than 50,000 Hispanic students by comparing ethnicity, gender, grade, and academic programs. The results revealed that reading scores were low for Hispanic students, and means were below passing levels, especially in word meaning and summarization. Hispanic students’ English-version scores at lower grade levels were higher than the Spanish version. Tenth graders did fairly well in all six objectives. Female students scored higher than males did on all six objectives for all grade levels.

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The generalizability of prediction equations was investigated for licensure examinations in nursing. Three sets of regression equations were developed and compared for accuracy of prediction. The results indicated that equations for one university could accurately predict test performance at a different university. It was concluded that prediction equations for the State Boards are stable across populations. In addition, evidence was presented to suggest that verbal ability is an underlying construct which is partially responsible for the stable prediction.