To evaluate the implications of deliberate practice when teaching test administration skills, novice, but trained, graduate student examiners administered intelligence tests to a convenience sample of volunteer school-age examinees assigned to a first test session. A second, different convenience sample of volunteer school-age examinees were…

The present report analyzed the scoring data from the original New York City Board of Education scoring guide (1941), and, in addition, a partial replication of the 1941 study is reported, as well as an analysis of scoring patterns among experienced and inexperienced examiners. Results indicate that examiners differ in their scoring of…

Results of the study indicate that the race of the examiner is not a critical variable in test performance relating to Negro students. (KG)

Examined whether scoring of Stanford-Binet test items might be influenced by the examiner's prior knowledge of subjects' ethnicity and IQ. Stanford-Binet protocols (N=36) of subjects from five to eight years old were divided into four groups and assigned four groups of examiners. Results suggested no bias. (Author/JAC)