Administered the Brief Symptom Inventory to 204 female and 143 male college students. Results indicated that college students reported significantly higher levels of distress than did the adult sample and that they showed a different pattern of distress than the younger adolescents. Suggested that counselors and clinicians may wish to use college…

This document presents an analysis of a normative study done to determine physical fitness norms of college age young adults. Data for this normative study were collected under the supervision of 24 coinvestigators who were affiliated with institutions distributed in all regions of the United States. The study presents the derivation of the…

Presents new norms on the Nelson-Denny Reading Test for healthcare-professional students. Notes that it is generally accepted that professional and graduate schools require students with good reading ability because of the quantity of material to be read. Presents standard scores, percentile ranks, and stanine scores as revised norms based on test…

Normative data for the Advanced Raven's Progressive Matrices are presented based on 300 University of California, Berkeley, students. Correlations with the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale and the Terman Concept Mastery Test are explored. The relationship between the Advanced Raven's Progressive Matrices and Spearman's g is explored. (Author)

Investigated college student scores and reliabilities on Rotter's Incomplete Sentences Blank (ISB) for the years 1965, 1970, and 1977. Results indicated: (1) no significant differences among the three years; (2) significant differences between scores in the present and original ISB norms; and (3) high interscorer reliabilities of rescoring…

Statistical outcomes conclude that both the Test Anxiety Inventory and the Anagram Solution Task exhibit substantial discriminant validity but relatively little concurrent validity. Each of the measures shows considerable promise as a means for identifying students with differential levels of test anxiety. (Author/PN)

Determined how a current sample of college students' (N=301) responses on the Study of Values (SOV) instrument relate to the 1960 norms of the SOV manual. Results showed that economic values were higher and social values were lower than in 1960, suggesting a need for revision of the SOV norms. (LLL)

This study investigated the performance of students who missed regularly scheduled examinations and took make-up examinations in an upper-level psychology course. Four sections of a 300-level Educational Psychology course enrolled 123 students, of whom 52 missed one or two examinations, one missed four examinations, and one missed the…

Examined an instrument widely used for both clinical and research purposes, to assess its accuracy with college students. Compared scores of 209 undergraduates using a university-based clinic with those of 435 nonpatient students and with adults and adolescents. When compared with norms based on unscreened community samples, nonpatient…

The Mooney Problem Check List, College Form, was administered to 2,261 students from six Louisiana universities, for standardization purposes. Usable protocols were obtained for 1,929 subjects. Comparisons among schools, school classes, sex, race, and marital status were made for the 11 Mooney categories. Norm tables were developed for all groups…

The construct validity of vocational interest test scores was examined by finding the interest profiles of 15,447 college students in 51 majors. Standard scores based on same-sex norms were found to be more valid on this criterion than were raw scores. (CTM)

Examined relationship between My Vocational Situation (MVS) scores and students' grade point averages and differences related to age or sex using college freshmen (N=2,532). Results provided a considerable amount of normative, psychometric, and comparative data about the MVS. (Author/ABL)

The relationships among variables for a group of first year medical students were examined. The variables included previous test-taking experience, test-taking training, test anxiety, and level of test wiseness. The study also provided initial normative data concerning the level of test anxiety among entering medical students for comparison with…

The present report is one in a series which profiles the University of Washington (UW) entering freshman class in terms of performance on the several tests making up the Washington Pre-College Testing Program's battery. As in earlier years, percentile charts for male and female entrants as well as for the total tested group, comprising 79 percent…

The forced-choice psychophysical procedures of the Seashore Measures are well designed to assess sensory capacities. The norms of the current version of the test, however, show percentile ranks that purport to distinguish between scores that can only represent chance performance (Author/BW)