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Peer reviewedRay, John J. – Journal of Personality Assessment, 1974
The reliability of measures of need for achievement can be improved by increasing the number of items and by using different scoring systems and stimulus materials. (MLP)
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Personality Measures, Projective Measures, Scoring
Peer reviewedVestewig, Richard E.; Paradise, Carol A. – Journal of Personality Assessment, 1977
Achievement motivation was successfully measured among male and female college students by having the students rate eight Thematic Apperception Test cards for similarity and scaling the results in two dimensions: number of persons and degree of strong affect. The Rorschach Inkblot Test was not effective in determining need for achievement. (CTM)
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Higher Education, Measurement Techniques, Motivation
Download full textAdkins, Dorothy C.; Ballif, Bonnie L. – 1970
Gumpgookies, an objective-projective test of school achievement motivation for children 3 1/2 to 8 year, was reduced from 100 to 75 items following extensive factor analyses. This revised test attempted to dissipate the effects of response sets of the subjects and was prepared in three versions--an individual form, a group form for non-readers,…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Childhood Attitudes, Correlation, Factor Analysis
