The author describes her success in reporting the results of psychological evaluations directly to the parents and individuals involved, but notes that some of her colleagues fear that such a practice might lead to misuse and misinterpretation. Her survey of 137 school and clinical psychologists, with regard to their practice of reporting test…

This paper reports the development of a self-report inventory for measuring work-relevant attitudes. A pool of 72 items was created after a review of the research literature. These items were administered to 89 out-of-school Neighborhood Youth Corps enrollees in Cincinnati and to 78 New Careers enrollees in Durham. Performance ratings were…

Test anxiety is of particular significance in education in light of its debilitative effect on test scores and the implications and longranged effects of test results on the individual lives of the school children. This research is concerned with test anxiety of children under different test conditions. Subjects were 4th and 6th grade students who…

One of a series of papers on critical issues in vocational-technical education, this paper develops the thesis that vocational evaluation, a specialized division of vocational rehabilitation, has accrued a body of skills and techniques which might prove valuable to vocational educators. The four primary techniques (psychological testing, work…

The Minnesota Child Development Inventory (MCDI) measures the development of preschool-age children, using an inventory format to obtain mothers' observations. To demonstrate the validity of MCDI results, the authors compared them to the results of psychological evaluations, including data on intellectual functioning, fine motor skills, and…

This paper is prepared for the rehabilitation practitioner and hopefully will meet some of the needs of the academician as well. The data covers the following major areas: How personality develops, How emotional pathology develops, Defense mechanisms, Classification of psychological makeup, Treatment of emotional pathology, Commonly used glossary,…

This article describes the design and testing of a computer-based program that administers and scores the California Psychological Inventory. Results indicate a considerable difference between the mean CPI subscale results of the computer administered and traditionally administered groups, particularly for males. (Author)

Teaching requires nonauthoritarian personalities and, unfortunately, most Jamaican teachers are both authoritarian and conformist in their attitudes. Teacher training colleges must become aware that this is a problem and modify their programs to discourage the existing rigid approach to education. (WI)

The Millon Multidimensional Adolescent Inventory (MMAI) is a brief, 150-item group administered self-report inventory. Here it is used as an instructional tool within the context of psychology and health classes. (Author/RK)

Recent court cases have continued to support the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's employee selection guidelines. The EEOC Guidelines provisions upheld in "Albemarle Paper Co. v. Moody" are compared with the APA Test Standards and with APA Division 14's Personnel Selection Principles, and implications for employment testing are…

Reports a recently proposed method of identifying delinquency as early as third grade based on peer group associations, the Halstead-Reitan test battery, perceptual and hand-eye coordination tests, and family environment. (MDR)

The aim of this study was to examine pattern difficulty as a general factor influencing orientation errors, and to explore psychological differentiation and task perception as variables accounting for cross-cultural differences. Samples of 30 boys and 30 girls in Ghana and Scotland were tested. (Editor)

Two Minnesota Importance Questionnaire (MIQ) scales, Creativity and Independence were validated by experiment. Subjects (N=68) were exposed to four task conditions representing joint combinations of high or low levels of Creativity and Independence. The behavioral results were consistent with the subjects' MIQ score levels on the two scales,…

This paper presents the rationale for a questionnaire measure of individual differences in stimulus screening--namely, individual differences in automatic screening of irrelevant stimuli and rapid habituation to distracting, irrelevant stimuli. All components of the questionnaire were intercorrelated and represented a unitary dimension of…

Proposes a methodology, an analysis of variance, for assessing statistical differences among jobs using a particular job analysis instrument--the Position Analysis Questionnaire--as the basic measuring device. (Author/RK)