ASSESSING SOCIAL AND PRE-VOCATIONAL AWARENESS IN MILDLY AND MODERATELY RETARDED INDIVIDUALS

Abstract

The Social and Prevocational Information Battery, a series of knowledge tests developed for use with mildly retarded adolescents, was revised to facilitate assessment of moderately retarded persons knowledge in social and prevocational areas. The relationship between knowledge and applied performance in these domains was examined. The revised battery demonstrated adequate test and item difficulty and internal-consistency reliability, and mildly and moderately retarded persons'' knowledge was substantially related to applied performance in these skill domains.