In recent years many researchers, clinicians, and testing companies have shifted from paper-and-pencil to computer administrated tests of psychological measures. This paper explores the feasibility of using the Internet to collect data from the Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment (IPPA), the Negative Mood Rating Scale (NMRS), and the Trait…

The authors distributed questionnaires about the role of school psychologists to teachers, psychologists, and principals. They found that experienced teachers have higher expectations for more novel interventions such as in-school and in-class services, and that psychologists make different kinds of treatment recommendations depending upon…

With an increasing number of cases currently coming to the courts' attention to examine the conditions under which educational and psychological testing practices violate one's constitutional rights, this article considers the responses from school systems, professional organizations, the Federal Government, school psychologists, and the testing…

The performance of black youths in educational and psychological testing situations cannot be assessed adequately without consideration of their particular attitudes, perceptions, and behavioral patterns. The authors discuss Blacks' attitudes toward whites, systems of time allocations, expressions of identity, attitudes toward learning,…

This study questions the use of a general IQ score as a basis for conclusions relating to studies of intelligence, especially with minority children. Instead, it looks at item-responses from Stanford-Binet tests. Using Guilford's Structure of Intellect Model applied to organismic responses, the authors tallied the item responses. (Author/LA)

The visual imagery of kindergarten, third, and sixth graders was tested via a continuous visual recognition test in which subjects were to identify repeated pictures of familiar and nonsense objects. (Editor)

One hundred sixty sibling pairs from two child families were sampled for sibling interaction behaviors as they relate to measures of categorization style. The study provides additional evidence of the importance of a child's siblings to his cognitive development. (Editor/RK)

The effectiveness of a public nursery school program was evaluated using two comparision groups, those who had and had not attended nursery school and Title 1 and non-Title 1 children. (Author)

Not very much is known about the test-retest reliability of personality inventories for children, particularly at the primary school level; this study was designed to throw some light on this question. (Author)

Studies the effect of play-like, verbal-feedback, and nonverbal-feedback testing conditions on three creative ability measures using 175 lower-class preschool children, finding that most of the creativity measures used were unaffected by variations in testing conditions. (Author/JM)

Several areas of controversy between Soviet pyschologists and their Western colleagues concerning the usefulness of tests for measurement of mental ability are noted in this article. The author outlines test procedures suggested by Russian psychologist, Lev Vygotsky. (SM)

Describes a framework for assessment within which direct, continuous, naturalistic observation of behavior provides many of the advantages one seeks in evaluation. (Author/JM)

Butch and Slim was written as a response to a need for a rather specialised group of items in the Reasoning sub-scale of the British Intelligence Scale. (Author)

The focus of this article is on discrimination in the use of educational and psychological tests requirements in the hiring of minority groups. (Author/AG)