The study reported here involved a search of non-academic variables to identify correlates of grades in an attempt to better predict academic success for black students; all subjects were black freshmen entering the University of Maryland in September, 1968. (Author/JM)

The validity of the Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire-Revised (PDQ-R) was examined. The PDQ-R and the Crowne-Marlowe Social Desirability Scale (SD) were administered in the spring of 1989 to 45 undergraduates (26 females and 19 males) at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania. One month later, the Hopkins Symptom Check List (SCL-90) was…

Cattell emphasizes that research on the personality structure should precede scale development; in this way, personality tests will approach the precision of ability tests. He discusses testing trends and the contribution of personality tests to the school setting--specifically to the prediction of achievement, underachievement, problem behavior,…

Psychological testing has recently fallen into disrepute because psychoanalysts have perpetuated a fraudulent theory of personality and because psychometrists have become overly concerned with psychometric esthetics to the neglect of validity. The theory subscribed to by psychoanalysts holds behavior as relatively independent of the situation the…

Objective psychological measures, personal historical data, and seven criterion measures of performance were made on 67 physician extenders (MEDEX) in five consecutive classes at a southeastern university training site over a two year period, October 1972-April 1975. Multiple regression analysis was used to identify significant predictors for each…

Tests of intelligence and structured measures of emotional status, aptitudes, and achievement alone do not suffice in predicting the vocational adjustment of the mentally retarded. Since the main concern is the evaluation of the many aspects of behavior which make the individual a unique and changing person, a format was developed which included a…

The purpose of this publication is to provide a particular method for conducting personnel selection research and at the same time to report the results of a study in which it was successfully used. A novel and successful type of inservice education was recently initiated by the Ohio State University College of Education in collaboration with…

TO CLARIFY ISSUES INVOLVED IN THE RAPID AND CONTINUING EXPANSION OF OVERSEAS STUDY PROGRAMS FOR AMERICAN COLLEGE STUDENTS, A STATISTICAL ANALYSIS WAS MADE OF DATA OBTAINED FROM A BATTERY OF TESTS AND INTERVIEWS WITH 85 JUNIORS ACCEPTED FOR STUDY ABROAD IN THE SPRING OF 1965. FINDINGS WERE COMPARED WITH SIMILAR DATA FOR NON-APPLICANTS AND REJECTED…

This book addresses the question of what tests are measures of. Intelligence, achievement, and personality tests not based on empirical investigation have questionable validity. Some researchers now suspect that almost all tests given to students in all subjects, as well as general tests of intelligence and personality, are essentially language…