A Newsletter for the Promotion of Excellence in Measurement Instruction

For additional copies of the Measurement Forum or for more information about the new third edition of Psychological Testing and Assessment, contact Mayfield Publishing Company at (800) 433-1279 or [email protected] Welcome to Issue Number 1 of Volume 3 of the Measurement Forum. With this current issue, we join Mayfield Publishing Company in continuing to meet our primary objective of providing information that will promote excellence in measurement instruction. We trust you had a relaxing summer and your fall semester has begun smoothly. We hope this issue of the Measurement Forum will contain ideas for classroom demonstrations and supplementary materials for your classes that will contribute to making your semester a rewarding one for you and your students. In this issue, we have also included a number of items related to teaching more generally. These items include, for example, active learning techniques and discussion of dual relationships with students. We hope these items will stimulate your thinking of issues that pertain not only to teaching psychological measurement but any course in higher education. This issue contains a number of classroom demonstrations/activities submitted by Forum readers. We encourage you to take some time, as did Forum readers such as Patricia L. Bromley of University of Wisconsin at Platteville, George Fago of Ursinus College, and Bruce Bracken of the University of Memphis, to share an idea or two with us for our next issue. In addition, at the request of Professor Jack Flynn from Connecticut State University to develop a set of slides/overhead transparencies for use in the teaching of psychological measurement (see Professor Flynn’s letter in the Winter/Spring 1997 issue on page 6 and the item in this issue, “Call for Art), we are continuing to compile materials. Please consider contributing to this effort that could benefit all instructors.