Discusses the lack of reliable instruments for studying African American behavior and psychological functioning as a technical and philosophical flaw in Western psychology. Surveys the development of Africentric theory-based assessment instruments and presents the African Self-Consciousness Scale, a 42-item personalilty questionnaire designed to…

Describes a study of a group of teachers and the data collected on variables from an extensive series of psychological tests, biographical variables, and college examination variables. Issues concerning the future, both of the participants in the study and the research itself, are discussed. (CT)

Three professional associations, the American Educational Research Association, the American Psychological Association, and the National Council on Measurement in Education, jointly adopted the new "Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing" in 1985. The relationship of these to earlier standards is reviewed, and implications…

School psychologists and education students and faculty were asked to distinguish between computer-generated and individually written psychological test comments and indicate cues used in making identifications. Even though results indicate correct identification did not differ significantly from chance, school assessment reports must provide more…

Through their drawings children provide observable clues to their conflicts, symbolize their needs and stir pupil personnel workers to action on their behalf. In this article the authors present a projective testing technique entitled, Child At School Drawings, and explain how to use it. Presentation made at Convention of International Association…

The development of insight in medical students is considered a fundamental component of psychiatric undergraduate education. The use of an insight test at the beginning and end of a six-week teaching program in clinical psychiatry showed a significant increase in insight as measured by this test. (Author/LBH)

This journal focuses on art therapy from research, clinical, and educational perspectives. Current issues arrange information under six categories: editorial; commentaries; articles; brief reports; viewpoints; and reviews of books and videotapes. While most articles are not education-related, each issue generally contains some material relevant to…

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)