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Holden, Constance – Science, 1986
Reviews findings of a restandardization project which examined the current validity of the Minnesota Multiphase Personality Inventory (MMPI), an instrument used to test for personality and psychological disorders. States that the MMPI has proved to be a remarkably durable instrument over the 45 years of its use. (ML)
Descriptors: Clinical Psychology, Personality Assessment, Personality Measures, Psychological Evaluation
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Benjamin, Ludy T., Jr. – Teaching of Psychology, 1983
College students in an introductory psychology course constructed a personality test. They were then asked to administer the test to two students not enrolled in the course and to bring responses to class the following week, at which time they analyzed and discussed the results. (RM)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Introductory Courses, Learning Activities, Personality Assessment
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Johnson, Gary S. – American Annals of the Deaf, 1989
Thirty-two hearing-impaired boys, aged 7-12, drew human figures as a projective personality assessment technique; the Koppitz technique was used to score the drawings. A positive relationship was found between the total number of emotional indicators on the drawings and the boys' scores on the Stress Response Scale. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Concurrent Validity, Elementary Education, Emotional Adjustment, Freehand Drawing
Morrow, Jim M. – 1987
This paper offers some suggestions and cautions concerning the use of the Self-Directed Search (SDS) and the Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory (SCII). A rationale for separate scoring of interest and ability sections of the SDS is provided, i.e., that correlations between interest and abilities and between abilities and vocational satisfaction…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Interest Inventories, Interrater Reliability, Job Satisfaction