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Peer reviewedKrug, Samuel E. – School Psychology Digest, 1978
Cattell emphasizes that research on the personality structure should precede scale development; in this way, personality tests will approach the precision of ability tests. He discusses testing trends and the contribution of personality tests to the school setting--specifically to the prediction of achievement, underachievement, problem behavior,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Testing, Individual Characteristics, Longitudinal Studies
Bersoff, Donald N. – 1972
Psychological testing has recently fallen into disrepute because psychoanalysts have perpetuated a fraudulent theory of personality and because psychometrists have become overly concerned with psychometric esthetics to the neglect of validity. The theory subscribed to by psychoanalysts holds behavior as relatively independent of the situation the…
Descriptors: Intelligence Tests, Personality Assessment, Personality Measures, Predictive Measurement
