The nature of the testing situations should be carefully considered when interpreting the correlation between a personality test and a measure of social desirability and interpreting the actual scores on personality measures which seem strongly susceptible to the influence of social desirability. (Author)

The objective of this study was the development of evaluation techniques and the assessment of these techniques when compared with standard procedures of the national Head Start program. Assessments of cognitive behavior, social behavior, and teachers' perceptions--as opposed to aides' perceptions--of children were made. The subjects were 33…